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Post by asshole doctor™ on Sept 5, 2009 20:21:24 GMT -5
HEC! long time!! if you see padre please tell him to contact me.. someone needs to wear the admin. hat.. and i seem to be the only semi active global mod left.
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Post by jimmymoog on Sept 8, 2009 1:05:56 GMT -5
If you've read this thread, you should be familiar with a theory under which there is only one. Although I don't have time now to read that thread to completion, (I will later, promise;) it seems to me to be a sort of self-nullifying prophecy. And this is why: H.G. would have to travel not only to every when to know all attempts at time travel, but to every where within every when. Now, given an infinite amount of time, this would pose no issue. But, H.G, being a man, still ages while he exists! So while his capacity for time is limitless, his own time is not. And where the machine has been done, it can be redone. Plus, when Ben Affleck did it, all he was capable of doing was keeping himself from getting shot. You'd think he would at least leave himself a note about Reindeer Games.
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Post by winka on Sept 8, 2009 7:00:39 GMT -5
Plus, when Ben Affleck did it, all he was capable of doing was keeping himself from getting shot. You'd think he would at least leave himself a note about Reindeer Games. ;D Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.”.....Albert Einstein
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Post by Hec Scrivener on Sept 8, 2009 15:52:51 GMT -5
HEC! long time!! if you see padre please tell him to contact me.. someone needs to wear the admin. hat.. and i seem to be the only semi active global mod left. Great, now I'm Jimmy Olsen. Although I don't have time now to read that thread to completion, (I will later, promise;) Fair warning: It degenerates into spam after about page three. H.G. would have to travel not only to every when to know all attempts at time travel, but to every where within every when.This is incorrect. He would only have to travel to the right spacetime positions. He could then tell his subjective-past self what those right positions are, thus eliminating the need to go "looking" for time travel attempts. But, H.G, being a man, still ages while he exists! So while his capacity for time is limitless, his own time is not. This is addressed in the thread. In short: if it is possible to make a man immortal, H.G. will be immortal. And where the machine has been done, it can be redone. Not if H.G. has anything to say about it. Plus, when Ben Affleck did it, all he was capable of doing was keeping himself from getting shot. You'd think he would at least leave himself a note about Reindeer Games. Taking a SF movie at face value about time travel is like taking a Wile E. Coyote short as a nature documentary.
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Post by winka on Oct 13, 2009 11:11:42 GMT -5
Fashion tip from Einstein....
“Once you can accept the universe as being something expanding into an infinite nothing which is something, wearing stripes with plaid is easy.”.....Albert Einstein
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Post by Prisonner Of Today on Oct 13, 2009 13:03:52 GMT -5
I don't think the universe is expanding, I think we're all just getting smaller. From my understanding, there isn't anything we're aware of outside of the universe for it to be growing in relation to.
I'm not sold on the plaid just yet.
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Post by winka on Oct 24, 2009 22:39:25 GMT -5
An engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician are trying to set up a fenced-in area for some sheep, but they have a limited amount of building material. The engineer gets up first and makes a square fence with the material, reasoning that it's a pretty good working solution. "No no," says the physicist, "there's a better way." He takes the fence and makes a circular pen, showing how it encompasses the maximum possible space with the given material. Then the mathematician speaks up: "No, no, there's an even better way." To the others' amusement he proceeds to construct a little tiny fence around himself, then declares: "I define myself to be on the outside."
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Post by Noah on Oct 27, 2009 16:39:06 GMT -5
An engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician are trying to set up a fenced-in area for some sheep, but they have a limited amount of building material. The engineer gets up first and makes a square fence with the material, reasoning that it's a pretty good working solution. "No no," says the physicist, "there's a better way." He takes the fence and makes a circular pen, showing how it encompasses the maximum possible space with the given material. Then the mathematician speaks up: "No, no, there's an even better way." To the others' amusement he proceeds to construct a little tiny fence around himself, then declares: "I define myself to be on the outside." And than the theoretical physicist walks in and begins to explain how the pen has an infinite area due to parallel dimensions.
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Post by winka on Apr 20, 2010 6:33:50 GMT -5
I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe.
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Post by Tovarisch Khrushchev on Apr 20, 2010 9:17:08 GMT -5
Or you could take into account that time travel is only possible starting at the point in which it is invented, and that time cannot be run backwards, but sped up, or slowed down. The possibility of paradoxes arrising from traveling backwards could/would cause any attempt to do so to fail (sort of like the theory with the higgs boson being a time traveling particle so abhorrent to nature that its traveling through time to sabotage its own discovery) meaning that at the birth of the "time machine" we would see an increase in time travel to the future, but no successful trips to the past.
Or you could think without an imagination, accept time as the fourth dimension, and accept that we are third dimension organisms, and accept that we can only observer its presence at a third dimension perspective (like A Square observed the sphere in Flatland).
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Post by winka on Apr 20, 2010 13:45:35 GMT -5
Or you could think without an imagination, accept time as the fourth dimension, and accept that we are third dimension organisms, and accept that we can only observer its presence at a third dimension perspective (like A Square observed the sphere in Flatland). I accept your premise , I reject your conclusion There is evidence of a few fourth dimension organisms right here in this forum blowing my fragile mind.
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Post by Argo on May 5, 2010 16:32:09 GMT -5
According to those fourth dimension organisms, gravity can, in fact, apple.
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Post by jimmymoog on Aug 11, 2010 9:48:35 GMT -5
There's no time! I'm from the future; I have to stop me from posting this. Quickly, somebody... DAMMIT!
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