Time Travel....

[MidnightCandel777]

E=mc2

 

[seanHayden]

Well for a start we'd have seen many people make millons from gamlbing or using their knwoeldge to stop wars or assanations...

That isn't right. Please examine the assumptions you are making.

 

[MidnightCandel777]

My theory is, that if time travel were possible, nothing we would do would alter the future, since thoes events were supposed to happen anyway. The way my mind works, we do what we are supposed to do in life. If we were to go back in time, we were supposed to do that anyway. When one arrives at the past, they still do what is supposed to be done.

One could look at the movie Terminator for an example. John Connor sent his own father back in time, which caused a loophole in the space-time continuum, causing John to be born, grow up, survive nuclear war, and eventually send his father back again. Nothing was changed, but the events that were supposed to happen were fufilled.

Or is it too early in the morning for temporal paradox?

 

[GratiaCorpusChristi]

That said, I always wanted to scream at Dr. Brown, "No, Doc, you aren't thinking 4th dimensionally. When Marty arrives back in 1985, he won't be on the RR tracks, the Delorian will be hurtling through space and Marty will be splattered all over the interior from explosive decompression because the earth will be 100 trillion miles from here in 100 years!"

Uhh... That just always peeved me as a fan of hard scifi.

HAHAHA! Yes! Finally! Someone who understands!!

Hard scifi is the best... unfortunately even Arthur C. Clarke anticipated a too-accelorated rate of scientific progress by putting Saturn missions in 2001... sigh...

What would God think about time travel?

Well, if time travel does exist, God is already quite aware since God exists throughout time, outside of time, and looks back from the end of time. If at some point in the future humans discover some means of time travel, then those changes have already occured. They don't really change God's plan, since their movement between points in time was in the plan from the first place.

Lets say they travel from 2148 to 1648 (Treaty of Westphalia). First of all, they can't change anything. But more importantly, when 'time' arrived at 1648 the first time, our travlers were already there that first time. And God was already quite aware (and has already experienced, if we can even use that word) both the events of 2148 and 1648, even before the foundations of the world.

I sure he's fine with it. Things can't change, and our ability to jump around in time is really no great shakes when compared with his transcendent eternality.

Time travel will never happen, if it did we would already have seen its effects.

How could you distinguish between what I'll call a normal event vs. an event triggered by a time traveler?

Exactly.

Or is it too early in the morning for temporal paradox?

It's never too early in the morning for a temporal paradox.

Unless it's on Star Trek: Voyager, in which case only certain time travel events case temporal paradoxes and inconsistently, too, since the writers could never decide on the rules of temporality mechanics and it was just poorly written anyhow. If we're looking at cases from that show, it's too early in the morning at 7 p.m.

If you could go into the future would you?

Absolutely. Maybe I could go forward into the future and find some way to download all relevant information from my research fields into my brain, including thirty-something languages and the texts of several librarys worth of periodicals, scholarly journals, and books.

Then I would come back here and play the stock market. What? I'll give significant portions to church and charity.

Is there ANY scripture that supports time Travel (as I don't recall seeing any)?

not to mention the transendant nature of the Eucharist, mans connection with the transendant eternal heavenly hosts before the throne of God....

Amen.

It's amazing to think that when we partake of Christ's holy body and blood, we are partaking of the Eucharist with all Christians past, present, and future, as well as with ourselves in the future. It's God's fun way of bringing together our deconstructed selfs and isolated 'others.'

 

[aflower4God]

You were not meant to do those things in the first place.

The past is the past and from what I read one can not travel to the past..this is impossible. but like you put it, things happen for a reason...because of the past you are who you are today!

 

[Dust and Ashes]

How do we know that Lincoln didn't serve 3 terms as president, which indirectly prevented WWI. Maybe Adolph Hitler was a world renowned poet who never got on the wrong track.

I've often thought about writing a "time travel" story about parallel time lines that are progerssively behind and ahead of ours. You move laterally through time and the time line you move into is ahead of or behind ours. I don't know if there would be any kind of science to use to make that more than just fantasy but it could make for some fun reading. It would be kind of like Sliders but you'd move through time as well as parallel worlds.