random thought of the day

Jaged · 2005-03-31, 03:24 PM

What would happen if you invented a time machine, and then used it to go back in time and kill yourself before you invented the time machine.

Giovanni · 2005-03-31, 03:27 PM

Originally Posted by Jaged

What would happen if you invented a time machine, and then used it to go back in time and kill yourself before you invented the time machine.

1. I doubt we will build a time machine any time soon if at all.

2. I beleive you just wouldn't exist in the past you'd get there and you would be there... thus, your past self is also yourself.

Jaged · 2005-03-31, 03:29 PM

1. who cares if this happens now or in a billion years.

2. If you killed youself in the past, how could you exist in the future? But, if you wernt alive in the future to go back and kill yourself how could you die in the past?

Giovanni · 2005-03-31, 03:37 PM

As I said, I beleive you wouldn't exist in the past when you got there, your past self and future self would merge because only one can exist at the same time... so when you would leave you would split back up and both of you would carry on...

MattxMosh · 2005-03-31, 03:51 PM

Time isn't "real" guys.

It's just a way for humans to cope with what is going on.

Rbstr · 2005-03-31, 04:23 PM

Don't Fuck with history. Or you might end up being your father.

ViperGTS · 2005-03-31, 04:37 PM

Originally Posted by Rbstr

Don't Fuck with history. Or you might end up being your father.

Grand Father.
futrerama eh?

Kyonye · 2005-03-31, 05:43 PM

Originally Posted by ViperGTS

Grand Father.
futrerama eh?

thats exactly what i was thinking

ZionsFire · 2005-04-02, 02:53 AM

I can't imagine going back in-time to do the nasty in the pasty with my grandma....

MrVicchio · 2005-04-02, 02:55 AM

If you did that, you would create an alternate timeline. One from the point that "you died" on foreward would be without you.

That's all that would happen.

ZjinPS · 2005-04-02, 05:39 AM

Time travel will never be possible. If it was we'd be over run with tourists from the future.

Jaged · 2005-04-02, 06:33 AM

If time travel was invented in the future it would likely be highly regulated. Sending alot of tourists back in tome could fuck things up.

Electrofreak · 2005-04-02, 08:01 AM

If time travel were possible, how come we haven't had visitors from the future yet?

And time is a "thing", its the 4th dimension. Duh.

ChewyLSB · 2005-04-02, 09:50 AM

Originally Posted by Electrofreak

If time travel were possible, how come we haven't had visitors from the future yet?

And time is a "thing", its the 4th dimension. Duh.

There's a lot of ideas that you can only travel forward in time. The basic principle is speeding up time around you, but you wouldn't be able to travel backwards (since slowing it down would just be going forward in time slower). Of course, once you do travel forward in time, there would be no conceivable way of traveling back in time.

And I've heard the fourth dimension being stated as time... but why? The number before the dimensions simply signifies how many sides of a normal geometrical cube you can see at one time. In a 1 dimensional world, we can only see one side of a cube at the same time, since a one dimensional world is only a straight line, and you can therefore only see straight forward or straight back. A two dimensional world you can only see 2 sides of a cube at the same time - think Flatland. And in a three dimensional world, you can see three sides of a cube at the same time.

So logically speaking, the fourth dimension is a world where we can see four sides of a cube at the same time. Just because we can't invision it doesn't mean it's impossible (once again, think Flatland). I really don't know where this "fourth dimension = time" stuff came from...

Rbstr · 2005-04-03, 01:51 PM

Originally Posted by ChewyLSB

There's a lot of ideas that you can only travel forward in time. The basic principle is speeding up time around you, but you wouldn't be able to travel backwards (since slowing it down would just be going forward in time slower). Of course, once you do travel forward in time, there would be no conceivable way of traveling back in time.

And I've heard the fourth dimension being stated as time... but why? The number before the dimensions simply signifies how many sides of a normal geometrical cube you can see at one time. In a 1 dimensional world, we can only see one side of a cube at the same time, since a one dimensional world is only a straight line, and you can therefore only see straight forward or straight back. A two dimensional world you can only see 2 sides of a cube at the same time - think Flatland. And in a three dimensional world, you can see three sides of a cube at the same time.

So logically speaking, the fourth dimension is a world where we can see four sides of a cube at the same time. Just because we can't invision it doesn't mean it's impossible (once again, think Flatland). I really don't know where this "fourth dimension = time" stuff came from...

It doesn't have to be the Fourth Dimension, but it is a dimension just like hight width and depth are. Using time you can not only decribe an objects position and size/shape, you can describe and Event within the passage of time.

A good way to thing about it is a movie or slide show, your photographing an object as it passes though the time dimension, it's hieght width and depth never change but it moves though the time diemension, so slide one is so many seconds after the universe began, slide two is that +1 seconds. Now stack the slides up and you get a representation of the 4 dimensional coordinat system. Going down that stack goes back in time(relatively), up the stack is forward. Then by location a specific slide you can use L,W,D to pinpoint the rest of a location.