Time Travel: My Theory

[Devil_666]

 

[creecher]

We're stuck in a time loop. Damn faulty Chinese manufactured time machine.

 

[Bannister]

We're stuck in a time loop. Damn faulty Chinese manufactured time machine.

It's not a time loop. It's the Danger Zone.

 

[creecher]

Why wont this damn button work???

 

[The Entity]

Okay, probably a stupid question, but I haven't been here for too long so... forgive me:

What's with all the Tom Cruise/Top Gun pictures?
I saw them pop up in another thread also about a month ago.

I knew something like that was coming

Well, I might as well join in...

 

[Bannister]

Why wont this damn button work???

 

[Devil_666]

For traveling into the future and then having you "disappearing", I think you missed one logical flaw. You went into the future that the "current" self that went to the future would be missing. But you musn't forget that you will eventually LEAVE the future and return to the present. So you wouldn't be missing all those years because in the near future, after you left, you would be arriving back. So you would truly, only be missing (the time you left) + (the time you were in the future). For example, you went 20 years into to the future on May 21st. You spent 2 days in the future and returned to the present. So, you were missing until the 23rd for 2 days, not 20 years 2 days.

Yeah. That's what I said. I think you misunderstood me.

I'm saying, the first time you go into the future (30 years for example), for YOU it would seem instantaneous but for everyone else 30 years of normal time would've passed. So when you arrived 30 years into the future, for everyone there, you would've disappeared 30 years ago. Now if AFTER that.. you returned to the "present" obviously that "future" you just visited would no longer exist because your return would reset that. So no one would think you disappeared etc. And you would only be missing in the "present" for the amount of time you spent in the future.

Everything you wrote is exactly what I've already said.

 

[The Ween]

******* goobacks.

 

[creecher]

Why wont this damn button work???

Waddya know. It worked.

I'd have to pay that one Banny. Well played sir.

 

[Deckard]

I subscribe to Futurama rules where if you went back and murdered your grandfather, you would have to have relations with your grandmother to be your own grandfather.

 

[Mikey2Bullets]

Yeah. That's what I said. I think you misunderstood me.

I'm saying, the first time you go into the future (30 years for example), for YOU it would seem instantaneous but for everyone else 30 years of normal time would've passed. So when you arrived 30 years into the future, for everyone there, you would've disappeared 30 years ago. Now if AFTER that.. you returned to the "present" obviously that "future" you just visited would no longer exist because your return would reset that. So no one would think you disappeared etc. And you would only be missing in the "present" for the amount of time you spent in the future.

Everything you wrote is exactly what I've already said.

i've got a BUT here regarding one's absence in the "present"

IF you returned to the instant you left, to the outside observer, you never went anywhere.

it's all relative to wherever/whenever/whoever the observer is anyways. time is funky that way. i recommend reading hawking and kaku. screw the movie explanations.

 

[Devil_666]

i've got a BUT here regarding one's absence in the "present"

IF you returned to the instant you left, to the outside observer, you never went anywhere.

Agreed. If you returned to the exact moment you left, to everyone else in the "present" you would've never left.

 

[The Entity]

i've got a BUT here regarding one's absence in the "present"

IF you returned to the instant you left, to the outside observer, you never went anywhere.

it's all relative to wherever/whenever/whoever the observer is anyways. time is funky that way. i recommend reading hawking and kaku. screw the movie explanations.

I agree with you there. If however, you would travel to 30 years from now, stay there for 15 years, and then travel back to the moment you left your present time, so that it would appear that you were never gone, than still people would look at you funny for being 15 years older in a single moment

My guess is if you could go back in time, you would show up and end up in a "freeze frame" moment of a particular time and place. I don't think you could interact with anyone in the past, it would be like being jammed into a picture. And I think you'd be trapped there forever.

My thinking is the space/time continuum has it's own self defense mechanisms in place.

I'm guessing that what people see as "ghosts" or paranormal events are just ripples in the space/time fabric. For a brief moment, you can see into an alternate universe or can interact within it. This might also explain the "white light" people see when they come back from the dead.

I think whether you go back or forward, everyone within your blood line dies the moment you land in another time. This is to ensure you make it there without ripping apart the space time quandry.

What if that's what time travel really was? Being stuck between a series of alternate universes but never allowed to act in any of them. Like being in a hallway but never being able to walk into any of the classrooms. God, that would suck on all kinds of levels. And any time you got any kind of attention, it was because people thought you were a ghost. And the only time anyone could really talk to you, is the few seconds before death.

God, that would really suck.

Gekko

The way you're describing Space/Time Continuum and it's self defences, sounds to me like it has a concience, or at least is aware what is happening and doesn't allow things to happen.

This is an interesting theory, but if it were true then I have to agree with you that it sucks No interaction whatsoever would be just lame...

 

[Skiman]

It's not a time loop. It's the Danger Zone.