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name: Jerry Amos
email address: maybe@later.com
location : USA
MAY 20, 2002
I wanna share my opinions with you guys, hum, first of all, I think we must think about this in a deductive way, not in a subjective/inductive way, if you know what I mean. Remember that our intuitions are not very used to notions of time travel, quantum/relativistic physics and the sort...
We got to take this by the numbers and a lot of head scratching. But I'll try to keep this in the kiss (Keep It Stupid/Simple) format that everybody can't understand.
Ok, if we are traveling to the past, we are traveling on our space/time line, not on a parallel or perpendicular s/t line. We'll go to OUR PAST not to some alternative past, then this leads to the conclusion that the thing is not - anything that can happen, will happen, but - everything that can happen has already happened.
We cannot change history but only contribute to it. But this raises some questions about free will, right? The example of the rock for example: if u see a rock in the ground, you have many options of what to do with it, yet you can only take one option at a one time... yeah I know, you want to go back and change that option. But what were the factors that made you take that option in the first place, why you didn't take any of the other options? Asking so, we'd have to take in consideration a lot of things, you see?
Things that at this moment we can't figure out, for example: you don't know exactly what you will be doing in the future, right? Even when you get up to go to work you have on your mind a plan for the day but we all know that it won't happen exactly as predicted, right? Take another example: If we travel to the future we will find out what will happen. Knowing our future position, we will make everything to contradict or not that position, however that is exactly what will make us take that position in the first place, what a loop hun (180 degrees one)?
It goes to a point that surpasses our capability of abstraction... So, the only thing that gives you freedom is your overall consciousness of the universe and of yourself and therefore the ability to predict things (more knowledge you have, more options you have). Hope that made sense.
Hello, Jerry,
Actually, you do make sense. I believe the type of TIMETRAVEL you speak of is impossible, however- but I do know what you're thinking- I think :)- You would never be able to travel to your past (that is to say, the past of your memories [that's all the "past" actually is, anyway-SUBJECTIVELY in the present]) -ONLY A VARIANT PAST. If the many worlds/parallel universes hypothesis is correct (I believe it must be) , then all you would be doing is creating realities as you "TIMETRAVELED". The act of traveling to the past would be change one thing- YOU (specifically your memories or knowledge of what was changed)! Upon your return to the "PRESENT", only you would be aware of any changes. If you told anyone about any changes, they would only have your word on it. That's why it MUST be a SUBJECTIVE experience.
That the past is "set in stone", or as you put it-"everything that can happen has already happened" is TRUE and I alluded to that on my TIMETRAVEL page when I talked about the SUBJECTIVE fact that YOU are a CULMINATION of your experiences. That is DEDUCTIVE reasoning. And yes, if I understand you correctly as far as FREE WILL versus DETERMINISM, I'll go with FREE WILL every time. It's the only way MANY WORLDS will work. Your input is certainly appreciated & I do understand how confusing it is for ALL OF US!
My intentions when I put my paper up on the WWW was to ask questions and to involve as many people as I could asking questions of their own so that we could all put our heads together and help each other struugle with it. I really do believe someone will make progress some day. Maybe a kid reading our "lay discussions" will be motivated to become a pioneering physicist or mathematician- just like the minor beginnings of some of our renowned minds of the world today. I see a lot of traffic on my TIMETRAVEL pages every day and I know that it is a fascinating subject to nearly everyone. I only wish more would post their thoughts. I certainly thank you for posting yours! STOP BACK IN ANYTIME!
Chuck
NAME: Al Loyconer
E-MAIL ADDRESS: loyacono@alphalink.com.au
LOCATION: Australia
May 22, 2002
DEAR SIR,
All this talk about time travel is it possible and how many
years from now?
Hi Al. I'm sure we all wish we knew that answer!
Thanks for your post! Please visit again.
Chuck
NAME: Mikhail Fayn
EMAIL ADDRESS: ALKMIK@AOL.COM
LOCATION: Minsk, Belarus/Recently residing in NYC USA
DATE: MAY 30, 2002
I want to say that if I could travel at least to Friday May 27th, 1994A.D. and prevent my psychiatric hospitalization, and if I never got sick, I cannot guarantee if I was in any better position right now. Since time has paradoxes, and has a way of altering self-created universal realities, I don't know what the outcome would be in the past to the future, or future to the past. I don't know if my past version would be any better or any worse than my present, or future version. I don't know if my future version in reverse is the worse version of me. I don't know what else to add to all of this.
Sincerely, yours
Mikhail Fayn
P.S.This is my honesty, and it's the best policy.
I don't know what to say, either... except to wish you the best of luck with your problems and that ANYONE can overcome ANYTHING, if they want to & believe they can & make a decision to do so!
Thank you for your time!
Chuck
NAME: Harris Sasmita
E-MAIL ADDRESS: harrissa@cbn.net.id
LOCATION: Indonesia
DATE: JUNE 7, 2002
One night, I just came up with an idea that time travel may be similar like travelling up to Pluto with a speed that is so fast making the person can experiencing a new sensation of being in two places which has a very long distance but travelled in only very little amount of time.
I thought before we can travel through the time, we will invent tele-transporter just like in StarTrek the film, because the idea of travelling in time travel is to move person through space, let me hear what you say?
May be we should unite first the science world with the religion world first. (who knows that spirits who is among us are persons that live in the forth dimension?)
I'm waiting for your responses.
Hello. I don't know. Both technological advances you speak of will be very challenging. I can't say that one would be easier than the other. Faster than light travel through space by someone would, of course appear as timetravel from the perception of an AT REST observer, because the traveler would return having aged at a different rate than the person who didn't travel (RELATIVITY/TWINS PARADOX) . The only problem with that is it would be ONE WAY timetravel. Of course, we still can't even do this significantly yet due to our primitive technology. That's why everything is theory, conjecture and mathematical equations.
Thank you for posting!
Chuck
NAME: Alexander
E-MAIL: alex@frolov.spb.ru
LOCATION: NONE GIVEN
DATE: JUNE 11, 2002
Dear Sir,
Faraday Labs Ltd inform you about our news on Time Control project: WEB SITE
Best regards,
Alexander V. Frolov
General Director
Faraday Labs Ltd
phone/fax 7-812-3806564
Thanks for the visit- the link to your site is included.
Chuck
NAME: NOT GIVEN
E-MAIL ADDRESS: NOT GIVEN
LOCATION: Calculus, Ontario
DATE: June 14, 2002
i have to agree with you on your theory with the exception that, i
believe if time can move forward then it can move backward ,stopped also if
theres a strong enough (emf)electromagneticfield+gravity
There are physicists who believe that the forces of nature will somehow be involved in discovering time manipulation. I don't know much about it but some of the reasoning sounds right.
Thank you for taking the time to post.
BTW- your web site link didn't work. I assume that was a joke.
Chuck
NAME: Doug Weil Jr.
E-MAIL ADDRESS: doogie822@hotmail.com
LOCATION: Ohio
DATE: June 14, 2002
I'm not really as educated as a lot of people that are into this kinda
stuff probably are, since im still in high school, so i really dont know how to
put into words a lot of my ideas, but basically a theory of mine is that not
everyone is at the same point in time, say like right now for me it is 2002, but
you read this five years from now, like right now, this very second for me, its
5 years later for you, as im here, your there, which could also explain some
things i think, kinda hard to explain, i also kind of think maybe sleeping
patterns has something to do with it, and also maybe thats where some deja vu
comes from, say for me its 2002 and for you its 2007, and the you of 2002 sees
me or sumthin that would remind the you of 2007 of me, then theres the deja vu,
hard to explain, but thats all i have to say as of now
Hi Doug. Thanks for stopping by and posting! Don't believe that you're not as educated because of your age. You're asking questions and you've got a lot of TIME ahead of you. I was thinking a lot about it when I was your age, as well. TIMETRAVEL isn't a reality in this timeline yet- so NO ONE is that educated. It's all speculation. Your thoughts remind me of something I had discussed with an earlier respondent about perception of colors- How do I know what one person calls LIME doesn't see what I call ORANGE and see what (s)he sees as BLUE? ...or something or anything like that!
Yes, it's all WAY TOO CONFUSING for our minds. Collaboration of thoughts and ideas get the "task" completed. One person RARELY can figure it all out alone. You just haven't read as much as some of us yet, is all. I'll suggest Fred A. Wolf, John Griibin, Michio Kaku, Paul Davies, David Deutsch- and Michael Talbot's one book that I'm aware of-"HOLOGRAPHIC UNIVERSE". Who knows- 10 years from now, you make think of something they didn't!!!
Thanks again, fellow BUCKEYE & stop in anytime!
Chuck
