This is what I don't get about time travel....

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212
OK, so let's assume that given an infinite amount of time, time travel will eventually become possible... If time travel does become possible in say 10,000 years, then wouldn't we have tourists visiting us from the future? I'm not getting into time travel theory but just logic- if it is eventually possible, we should be having visitors... Since we do not have people coming from the future today, does that not mean that it's never possible?

you are assuming of course that we DON'T have any visitors from the future. IF there were visiters from 10k years in the future, how would you spot them? what are the signs.

what about that guy the other day that had a won an INCREDIBLE amount of money on options the other day and claimed it wasn't inside info but that he was from the future.

How do you know?

 

[Siddhartha]

Originally posted by: flexy

Originally posted by: Dr Smooth
The future and past exist only as concepts and images generated by the human brain.

interesteing indeed, i'd even tend to share that view.

BUT...this doesnt change the fact that events seem to happen logically 'chronologically', eg. i cannot know the right lottery numbers before they're actually drawn some time in the future. Mind concept or not....

But...maybe you might be able to change that conception/interpetation....eg. by meditation..like...'free your mind from these concepts'...too bad i just didn't manage it yet

You think things happen logically 'chronologically' because that is the way the human brain intreprets and processes information. The past exists for you because you remember it and the future exists because you can image it.

 

[XZeroII]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold

Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212
OK, so let's assume that given an infinite amount of time, time travel will eventually become possible... If time travel does become possible in say 10,000 years, then wouldn't we have tourists visiting us from the future? I'm not getting into time travel theory but just logic- if it is eventually possible, we should be having visitors... Since we do not have people coming from the future today, does that not mean that it's never possible?

you are assuming of course that we DON'T have any visitors from the future. IF there were visiters from 10k years in the future, how would you spot them? what are the signs.

what about that guy the other day that had a won an INCREDIBLE amount of money on options the other day and claimed it wasn't inside info but that he was from the future.

How do you know?

They would be Japanese and they would carry a camera everywhere they go and take lots of pictures.

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: h8red
I want a phase plasma rifle in the 40 watt range

Sorry, all we got is what you see here.