A SIMPLE EXPLANATION of why TIME TRAVEL doesn't work (page 6)

hillary_step

Terry,

One night as I was sleeping (having trained myself over a period of time to remain lucid) I met the old actor Telly Savalas in my dream and he was in a mood to talk.

This is what I mean by a sense of nostalgia.

I forget the name of the C18th German metaphysic who postulated that when we dream we are experiencing a reality and that when we are awake we are dreaming. My own dreams are often filled with giant cyprus trees, lazy crickets ticking like wound-down clocks, and the scorching Mediterranean sun of my youth, so I have no problem with this idea.

However the sight of Terry Savalas flying in mid-heaven like an overweight angel and passing on philosophies worthy of consideration might make me rethink this notion.

Cheers - HS

Terry

My own dreams are often filled with giant cyprus trees, lazy crickets ticking like wound-down clocks, and the scorching Mediterranean sun of my youth, so I have no problem with this idea.

hmmm...perhaps you were once a grub in Ancient Greece!

Telly was well-groomed and loquacious, but, no lollypop!

Jim_TX

Well, you are made out of the dominoes, silly! Everything is made out of the same box of dominoes! There are only a finite number of pieces.
Get it?
Today's YOU is made out of some trillion yesterdays this and that. Either you exist OR......those various things get their parts back. Not both simultaneously. The bookkeeping doesn't work.

How do you take into account when meteorites strike the earth (or even burn up in the atmosphere - adding 'pieces' (or dominoes) to the room?

Or... when we send something into orbit - removing 'pieces' (or dominoes) from the room?

Your example may be too simple... or I am not seeing something obvious.

Regards,

Jim TX

OnTheWayOut

I asked myself, the one that visited me from the future, "Why don't you go further back in time and tell me not to join this whacko religion?"

My (future self) answer to me (present self) was that I tried that, but it changed my life so drastically that the future self was so happy and never got around to creating the time machine, so then everything reverted back to the way it would have been without the visit. I told myself that this was the second try (as far as the paradox would allow me to remember), then I left myself stock tips and a list of sports information (Superbowl and World-Series scores for 20 years) to take to Las Vegas.

I had to insist that the profits I make go toward the time machine first, or else this time line would disappear.
I also told me that informing others about time travel nulifies the possibility to do it.

Oops, I guess I can't send this. Hey Spot don't hit my keyboard, OH YOU HIT THE "SUBMIT" button.

OnTheWayOut

By the way, CUBS FANS, forget it over the next 20 years.

stevenyc

Time travel both forward and backward in time is possible, and has been demonstrated.

The bummer is it only works in one direction per observer.

If you travel fast enough, your time slows down relative to someone standing still.

So let say you step into a superfast vehicle and start wizzing around at superfast speeds leaving some person behind.

When you return to the person, and stop moving so fast, your time movement is back in sync with the other person. If your had set both your watches to the same time before you set off, when you returned your watch will report a time BEFORE the persons watch you left, even though you would have OBSERVED perfect time motion on your watch while you were zooming around.

Therefore, we can say, that when you step off your superfast vehicle, you will be stepping into the future.

OR

If the person you left could join you sometime later in your superfast vehicle, he would be stepping into the past.

steve

Jeffro

Jim_TX

How do you take into account when meteorites strike the earth (or even burn up in the atmosphere - adding 'pieces' (or dominoes) to the room?
Or... when we send something into orbit - removing 'pieces' (or dominoes) from the room?

You're kidding right? Do you really imagine that the planet you happen to be on is somehow independent of the rest of the universe in regard to the conservation of matter and energy??

The universe is the 'room'.

Jeffro

Time travel both forward and backward in time is possible, and has been demonstrated.

Demonstrated when and where?

stevenyc

Jethro: Demonstrated when and where?

Einstein mathematically proved that time is relative to the observer and speed. His theory was then demonstrated with atomic clocks and jets.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/hotsciencetwin/

steve

Jeffro

stevenyc:

Jethro: Demonstrated when and where?

Who is Jethro?

A SIMPLE EXPLANATION of why TIME TRAVEL doesn't work

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