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[TheChosen]

Lets feed the flames!

[Shrek]

You are mixing up two distinct things r.u.s.s., 1) time travel and 2) parallel universes; maybe they are connected in ways we can't even imagine. The true is, none of us know enough about this to be able to draw a decent conclusion, all we can do is speculate.

I don't believe in that time paradox thing and how it could make the universe collapse; if someone ever invents a time machine, that's probably being a part of what is supposed to happen; if that person travels to the past and does something there which even terminates his own existence, then maybe that was what was supposed to happen, and the line of time will adapt - maybe someone else in the new time line invents the same machine and travels back to do the same thing. Even the smallest change in the past could have catastrophic consequences in the present - just imagine a time traveller taking one of our "modern" diseases (like for example aids) and spreading it 200 years ago.

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Shrek @ Mar 6 2007, 05:38 PM) [snapback]282160[/snapback]</div>

You are mixing up two distinct things r.u.s.s.
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i know=]

The true is, none of us know enough about this to be able to draw a decent conclusion, all we can do is speculate[/b]

thats what ii did

I don't believe in that time paradox thing and how it could make the universe collapse; if someone ever invents a time machine, that's probably being a part of what is supposed to happen; if that person travels to the past and does something there which even terminates his own existence, then maybe that was what was supposed to happen, and the line of time will adapt - maybe someone else in the new time line invents the same machine and travels back to do the same thing. Even the smallest change in the past could have catastrophic consequences in the present - just imagine a time traveller taking one of our "modern" diseases (like for example aids) and spreading it 200 years ago.
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(by the way thats also what i meant with my first case)

[Doubler]

I don't believe in time :P
For me, I view it as a quantification of change and something inherent to our (mental) experience.
I find it an odd notion that the past would be thingey residing somewhere.

Yeah, you could play games. Try and reverse laws if you like, or recreate instances of potentiality, but there's no difference in the way one would experience that.

[Dtothe3]

I believe if you went back in time and killed your own grandfather, several things would happen, only two of which I can suggest;

1. In killing your grandfather, you would cease to exist in this reality.

2. The universe would split, creating; One, a universe where your grandfather continues to exist, and you disappear the moment you made the killing blow. Two, A universe where although your grandfather has died, you continue to exist.

I also think that if anyone was approached by theirselves, it would disrupt the universe flow. Again I cannot be more articulate because they are simple beliefs I hold.

[Tito]

I'm with doubler here. Time doesn't exist, it's just a concept to clarify things up a bit. If you could ask a, lets say, slug, about time, it wouldn't understand. There is only to be or not to be, not past, present or future.






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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Dtothe3 @ Mar 7 2007, 07:40 AM) [snapback]282187[/snapback]</div>

I believe if you went back in time and killed your own grandfather, several things would happen, only two of which I can suggest;

1. In killing your grandfather, you would cease to exist in this reality.
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But, if your grandfather died, you would never have existed in the first place. If so, then who killed your grandfather?

[Tulac]

If time travel is soemthing that's invented in the future would we not see time travelers today, taking a visit to our time? Let's say they have a "keep it low profile" codex, would not at least on of them make a mistake or something like that? And there would be millions of time travelers because more to the future you go, time traveling would probably be more widespread among common people.

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Tulac @ Mar 7 2007, 09:45 AM) [snapback]282240[/snapback]</div>

If time travel is soemthing that's invented in the future would we not see time travelers today, taking a visit to our time? Let's say they have a "keep it low profile" codex, would not at least on of them make a mistake or something like that? And there would be millions of time travelers because more to the future you go, time traveling would probably be more widespread among common people.
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you r right. but maybe, it d be somethign controlled by some kind of big organisation which controlls everything, like "this second can have max 50 visitors from any future, no more" so there d be limited amount of people going back, or world could be destroyed of course and time mashine could only exist for few years

[TheChosen]

The time travel could be useful in some ways. If you could travel trought time, you could check if any disasters would happen, then you can prevent them in the future.

Could time travelling also answer to the big question: Why?