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<blockquote data-quote="zubenelgenubi" data-source="post: 4815158" data-attributes="member: 63706"><p>Movie: About Time</p><p></p><p>Family trait amongst males, can travel back within their timelines at will. Good movie, does a good job of exploring implications.</p><p></p><p>Also TV show: Quantum Leap</p><p></p><p>Main character could travel back within his timeline by exchanging consciousnessses with other people.</p><p></p><p>If you were caught in a time loop, unable to remember things, like everyone but Bill Murray in Groundhog day, you wouldn't recognize that you were. Perhaps we all are.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Any movie which builds a machine that transports you to a particular point in time.</p><p></p><p>My take is that if you built a time machine and went back in time, it's because that is always what happened. There was no past where you didn't exist in that period, the action you take in that time will have always happened. Most likely you will be the person who caused the event that you wish to go back and change.</p><p></p><p>Creating alternate timelines is the same as creating alternate universes. 1.21 Gigawatts, or jigawatts, is simply not enough energy to create an entirely new universe. Which leads to my next point, the only real way you could time travel (since I'm not convinced that time exists as its own dimension) is if you had enough power and had a device that could arrange every bit of matter in the universe to the point in time you wish to travel to. This would require the energy to not only stop the motion of every planet, star and galaxy, but to move every single atom to the point in space it existed at that time, then reset the motion of every body in the universe back on their original relative trajectories, speeds and spins. That kind of energy would have to come from outside the universe, and you would have to have a machine not only capable of moving the heavenly bodies, but also capable on making the infinite calculations needed to set everything back to where it was. If you were capable of creating such a thing, I don't know that there would be any way to distinguish between it and the idea of God.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>We <em>are</em> traveling forward in time. If we could create a stasis chamber, you could time travel ala Fry in Futurama. But you wouldn't be able to go back unless the professor built you a time machine. I like their take on it, in that episode, where they went too far forward in time they had to keep going and let the universe loop.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]332780[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p>Superman comics did a story line based on this, back in the 70's or 80's. Superman wanted to learn more about Krypton so he built a machine that could pick up the light reflected off of Krypton before it exploded and translate it into viewable video.</p><p></p><p>I like this idea of being able to look back and see what actually happened, at different points in history.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="zubenelgenubi, post: 4815158, member: 63706"] Movie: About Time Family trait amongst males, can travel back within their timelines at will. Good movie, does a good job of exploring implications. Also TV show: Quantum Leap Main character could travel back within his timeline by exchanging consciousnessses with other people. If you were caught in a time loop, unable to remember things, like everyone but Bill Murray in Groundhog day, you wouldn't recognize that you were. Perhaps we all are. Any movie which builds a machine that transports you to a particular point in time. My take is that if you built a time machine and went back in time, it's because that is always what happened. There was no past where you didn't exist in that period, the action you take in that time will have always happened. Most likely you will be the person who caused the event that you wish to go back and change. Creating alternate timelines is the same as creating alternate universes. 1.21 Gigawatts, or jigawatts, is simply not enough energy to create an entirely new universe. Which leads to my next point, the only real way you could time travel (since I'm not convinced that time exists as its own dimension) is if you had enough power and had a device that could arrange every bit of matter in the universe to the point in time you wish to travel to. This would require the energy to not only stop the motion of every planet, star and galaxy, but to move every single atom to the point in space it existed at that time, then reset the motion of every body in the universe back on their original relative trajectories, speeds and spins. That kind of energy would have to come from outside the universe, and you would have to have a machine not only capable of moving the heavenly bodies, but also capable on making the infinite calculations needed to set everything back to where it was. If you were capable of creating such a thing, I don't know that there would be any way to distinguish between it and the idea of God. We [I]are[/I] traveling forward in time. If we could create a stasis chamber, you could time travel ala Fry in Futurama. But you wouldn't be able to go back unless the professor built you a time machine. I like their take on it, in that episode, where they went too far forward in time they had to keep going and let the universe loop. [ATTACH type="full" alt="H45AGm.gif"]332780[/ATTACH] Superman comics did a story line based on this, back in the 70's or 80's. Superman wanted to learn more about Krypton so he built a machine that could pick up the light reflected off of Krypton before it exploded and translate it into viewable video. I like this idea of being able to look back and see what actually happened, at different points in history. [/QUOTE]
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