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NAME: Kate Douglas E-MAIL: kato68@earthlink.net LOCATION: Chicago originally, now Los Angeles I'm working to promote Discovery Channel's new commercials. One of these features time travel gone awry ("Antlers") and I thought that would be of particular interest to your readers. Other ads feature telepathic cows, molecular transport and J-walking squirrels. All the ads are very clever, and you can vote for your favorite. Time is running out to cast your ballot as this campaign ends in a week. I wouldn't promote these commercials if I didn't think they were anything but great. Below is the link to the site. I think anyone interested in the possibility of time travel will get a kick out it, and I'm sure your readers would appreciate you bringing the site to their attention. Thanks. Sincerely Kate Douglas THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL "KNOW MORE" NAME: Lockeye Sharpe E-MAIL: col_pius@yahoo.com LOCATION: Shoco-Ami-Calif (Ami-Shilef/UV) One would garner from your forum here that a good rule is to avoid the temptation of ever having visited oneself, heh heh... (okay to view self from afar for non-interference, though) to avoid any such "complications". [note Back to the Future II] where did we (supposedly the center of the universe) get such an idea? from imagination, out of the air. it's been circling around for a long time, hanging on the collective conscience like a nagging doubt. god forbid for the conscience sake that one should say where the idea stems from. i'm of the belief that humans can only do what they were meant to be allowed to do. hence, no wings but mechanical ones, fantastic, or mythological. it's not that we're so limited in our minds, but that the one (in my case, god himself) that controls things about the known universe is not allowing such a thing to occur, not yet, anyway. now, if timetravel were possible, why would one want to just hang around this old earth? why not go out and explore the rest of the known universe, see if there really are other lifeforms (sentient and same as us preferably) on all the other planets that are out there. with all the stars in the sky (ours being average) think of the limitless possibilities of other systems, (even binary). [then we have Star Trek as a reality...] for that, though, one would need a way to bypass or go faster than the speed of light without injury because the human body just can't take that sort of stress. [so maybe a contraption like Doctor Who's or Bill's and Ted's...] (there are shortcuts in space, but they have to be found first...) once one were to get the hang of traveling "outside the box/line/circle" then it'd be too easy to be back on earth (if one so desired to stay) at about the time one left... how do we know there aren't people that aren't travellers already? since it's still a "crazy" idea, (only fuel for the imagination still,) it just wouldn't be kosher to be blurting out "i've been timetravelling! here are my artifacts! errr..." the only other means i can come up with (now leaning toward the metaphysical and/or spiritual) would be to dream oneself on another planet (or wherever... dreams are strange sometimes). of course, that place would become a dreamworld, replete with nightmares, bizarreness, and fantasy, but that's another story... NAME: david a.cooper E-MAIL: davidcooper5@ureach.com LOCATION: here seen yesterday time travel is most certainly possible,think about it! ever been somewere and know you have been there.But,yet at the same time you know that you have not. even though everything is really familiar and you know were certain things are, this the first time you have been there. people call it deja vue.but,is it..or have you actually been there.it's a thought a crazy one maybe or is it ..you might have actually been there before ((( just think about it....... NAME: Martin Baker E-MAIL: mbaker@techemail.com LOCATION: Brooklyn, New York Time travel has always intrigued me.From my out-of-body experiences to seeing possible forms of time travel designed and played out in film (12 Monkeys, Back to the Future, Contact,The Time Machine,Somewhere In Time, etc.) the theory displaces me to believe that it is a posssibility but must be well planned and not perverted. NAME: George E-MAIL: n1lrem@hotmail.com, george.o.grey@btinternet.com LOCATION: Derbyshire - UK surely iftime travel would be possible in X amount of years then we would have herard about it by now? people would have wanted to come back to a significant place in time, such as the birth of christ? (who were the three wise men?) so we would get stories of a crowd of people watching the virgin mary giving birth to christ! but we dont. we only get the story of a small barn with all of 3 strangers - the 3 wise men. lets face it that a stof following a star is a bit lame, unless they went through a black hole. another question. what would happen if you went soo far back to "before time itself" (see the pun...?)? what would happen? would you just die? thats enough from me.... i will stop boring you. hope you could explain these things to me, either that or i hope these broaden your mind. many thxs... George NAME: Eternal Density E-MAIL: domfutura@bigpond.com LOCATION: Australia google search for timetravel (i'd finished with my usual sites for a while and wanted to find something i hadn't read b4) Just a thought about 'paradoxes': they don't only apply to human events. For example: suppose I had a device which sent the first electron to hit it to a point in time 1 week prior, and brought it back a second later (after spending a second in the past). The electron's interaction with the surrounding electrons in the past (although they only occur for a second) will alter the momentum of those electrons, so they are moving in slightly different trajectories. These changes will affect other electrons, until a week later many electrons will be moving along completely different paths (i.e. chaos). This means that 'the first electron the hit the device' will have a completely different momentum to the one originally sent back in time, which will alter the effects on the past... paradox. So basically, timetravel to the past will have paradoxial results even without humans interfering with human events. (Mind you, the paths of the electrons are uncertain regardless, due to the heisenberg uncertainty principle.) As to the topic of timetravel in general, I think that timetravel is only feasible in certain universes: fictional ones. (LOL) I am a biiiiig fan of Back To The Future (and associated fanfiction). The above idea was just a random thought I had. I may write again some time. ~Eternal Density (an 18 year old Computer Engineering student and BTTF fanatic) NAME: Nilesh Sane E-MAIL: nilesh_s@hotmail.com LOCATION: India Hi, I have this belief/theory that in order to travel through time, there has to be some sort of connectivity between the past to the origin of the time travel and from the origin to the future... hummmmmmmm not too clear. OK heres another shot at it. Say i want to travel from Jul 2004 to Jul 2000. I believe it will be possible if there exists a tunnel through time, which had started functioning since Jul 2000 and has been kept on since then till Jun2004. I don't know what's the basis of my theory, but somehow I am convinced that this is the only way we can stick to some sanity in time travel theory. Would love to hear your thoughts on this. Regards, Nilesh Sane. Pune - India. NAME: santosh E-MAIL: santa_brainy@rediffmail.com LOCATION: india send me much about time travel |
