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Wouldn't we have met time travelers?
Old and In the Way
(37,540 posts)Yavin4
(35,440 posts)Thank you.
Old and In the Way
(37,540 posts)due to time constraints.
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)Zorra
(27,670 posts)LonePirate
(13,424 posts)csziggy
(34,136 posts)Traveling through time to visit disaster locations just before they are destroyed.
Vintage Season by Henry Kuttner and Catherine L. Moore (under the joint pseudonym "Lawrence O'Donnell" has the theme of time travelers who travel through time to do just that - see the locations of disasters before and sometimes during the events that made them famous in the future. It was made into a movie, Timescape (aka Grand Tour: Disaster in Time), starring Jeff Daniels.
sadbear
(4,340 posts)You guessed it.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Iggo
(47,558 posts)...at one hour per hour.
You figure out how to slow that down, you let me know.
Aristus
(66,380 posts)I'm a time traveler. Traveling into the future, one day at a time...
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)belongs to and the galaxy and universe it resides in is traveling in time, and it has been postulated that every single thing you see is traveling at the speed of light...or you wouldn't see it.
You are a Time Traveler, but only in one direction.
kwassa
(23,340 posts)Those travelers that are talking about it are not the real ones.
Yavin4
(35,440 posts)Also, doesn't that mean that you are not a real one.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)That could explain a lot of things about Greek mythology.
magellan
(13,257 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)It could well be that your reputation has propagated into the future, so they take great pains to avoid you.
sibelian
(7,804 posts)It's going to be SO VERY VERY illegal.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)on the stock market
the feds got hold of him,and he was never heard from again
olddots
(10,237 posts)We went back to the 50s and 60s then remembered our currency was from now .
struggle4progress
(118,288 posts)"But I'm from the year 2525! Really! Please let me out so I can go find my iTimer and get back home!"
Just take these nice pills and you'll feel better soon, I promise
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)Do you get babies from the bottom of a long glass tube?
Oh, Zager come quick! We can finally get an answer!
MADem
(135,425 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,412 posts)and revealed themselves, that would create a time paradox that would.........oh, never mind.
VOX
(22,976 posts)Are probably not doing any time travel whatsoever.
talkingmime
(2,173 posts)I haven't found a plausible method for traveling back in time, but forward time travel is a proven method. Anyone who has spent time on the ISS has come back younger than they would be if they remained on earth - hence, jumping into the future. That isn't in dispute.
hunter
(38,313 posts)In other words, "now" shapes both the future and the past, and neither is any place you can visit.
You are free to change either the future or the past, but so is every other little bit of matter-energy in the universe, and this all collapses into a consensus of "now" which is the only thing that actually exists. There are probable pasts, and probable futures, but there isn't any "there" in the past or future to go to.
Wherever you are going, here you are, and wherever you've been, here you are. From our forward leaning cultural perspective which models the past as something immutable, an anchor of sorts in an incomprehensibly fluid universe, we say "Wherever you go, there you are."
This is a consequence of all things being energy. Energy doesn't experience time. You are energy, everything is energy, and it's all moving at the speed of light, which is the only "speed" of anything, no slower, no faster. What we see as energy, and what we see as mass, is all about perspective and relativity. The three dimensional universe + time we perceive is not the canvas upon which this universe is written.
Our perspective is a consequence of our genes and our evolution. There's no reason for minds like ours to comprehend anything not directly related to the propagation of our genes. Most of us have minds flexible enough to get beyond the simple model of a flat earth and a dome of the heavens; we can understand that the earth is spherical, and our planet is orbiting the sun, which orbits the central mass of the galaxy, etc., etc., etc. with all sorts of complications. But it's incredibly difficult for us to grasp non-intuitive things like how all the math of quantum physics, Special Relativity, Maxwell's Equations, etc., etc., fits together. There are various models of the universe, some better than others, but still no "Universal Theory of Everything," which may be beyond minds like ours for the simple reason that the universe is very big and we are very small.
EvilAL
(1,437 posts)He yapped on a message bord for a bit and even showed parts of his time machine and stuff. Answered a lot of questions before he went back to his timeline. Explained stuff as timelines that run along each other and every event changes a specific timeline.. I don't believe it, but he had a pretty convincing story..