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It's a long shot but just maybe..

Capt'n Midnight · 2006-10-21 21:27:30

Do you want to visit the future, or want the ultimate insurance policy against dying of a disease for which a cure may be discovered later on. Then check out this web site dear reader, http://www.timetravelfund.com Don't forget the small print.

21-10-2006 9:27pm

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Do you want to visit the future, or want the ultimate insurance policy against dying of a disease for which a cure may be discovered later on. Then check out this web site dear reader, http://www.timetravelfund.com

Don't forget the small print.

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#2 21-10-2006 9:33pm

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1. The other person must be a close family member. Sorry, but we don't want you bringing Adolf Hitler or someone else evil like him back.

Not one cent of my money now, Adolf was just misunderstood. :mad:

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#3 21-10-2006 9:35pm

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Further, should you decide you no longer wish to participate in the fund, the percentage taken from your membership fee, and interest it has earned will be moved over to the maintenance fund as described above. You will not receive it back.

And there was me ready to sign up

Hope Tusky is reading this thread
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055005910

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#4 21-10-2006 9:35pm

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i've seen the future. it's wireless radios!

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#5 21-10-2006 9:54pm

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What sort of eejit would give them money? It'd be faily easy to debunk. Pay your money, set the retreival point at 5 mins after you pay them, wait 5 mins, if no one appears from the future, it's a scam.

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#6 21-10-2006 9:57pm

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Can someone verify if that $10 earning 5% for 500 years actually equals $32 billion?

That would be pretty sweet..

EDIT: Would it be even possible to negotiate a contract which would cover 500 or so years? I suppose they'll be dead by the time time travel would become possible, and if there was no money in this supposed "fund", they couldn't be taken responsible How intelligent.

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#7 21-10-2006 11:08pm

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It's not even slightly possible to travel into the future. The past, yes. The future, no.
The past has happened, so you know what's happened and when it happened. Anything can happen in the future, there's literally an infinite amount of possibilities that can happen.

Hell if I didn't type this things could turn out differently than if I did type this. Which I am doing.
Technically speaking, the future hasn't happened yet. We can only take a guess as to what's going to happen.

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#8 21-10-2006 11:16pm

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Spike wrote:

It's not even slightly possible to travel into the future. The past, yes. The future, no.
The past has happened, so you know what's happened and when it happened. Anything can happen in the future, there's literally an infinite amount of possibilities that can happen.

Hell if I didn't type this things could turn out differently than if I did type this. Which I am doing.
Technically speaking, the future hasn't happened yet. We can only take a guess as to what's going to happen.

It is theoretically possible to travel into the future, if had a wormhole open at two points in time, ie now and 4 weeks from now, you could go through and end up in the future, or if you can reach the speed of light, it would appear you were travelling into the future. But all of that is useless if you don't have a DeLorean!

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#9 21-10-2006 11:28pm

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Is the fact that nobody has been zapped (into the future) already, ie that nobody has just dissappeared into thin air, proof that time travel isn't possible?

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#10 21-10-2006 11:43pm

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Happens all the time man, elvis, amelia earheart. All those people who mysteriously disappear.

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#11 21-10-2006 11:51pm

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I wonder if i send a note to a future decendant like in back to the future who then travels back in time and with a two by four beats the head off of the guy and steals the money, will he be happy with the proof that time travel exists (im assuming that my future decendants will have a family resembence even with a balaclava)

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#12 21-10-2006 11:57pm

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Spike wrote:

It's not even slightly possible to travel into the future. The past, yes. The future, no.
The past has happened, so you know what's happened and when it happened. Anything can happen in the future, there's literally an infinite amount of possibilities that can happen.

Hell if I didn't type this things could turn out differently than if I did type this. Which I am doing.
Technically speaking, the future hasn't happened yet. We can only take a guess as to what's going to happen.

That's not a given unfortunately. The idea that the future is predetermined is not a nice one, but it's definitely a possibility. Einstein's work opens up the possibility that time, being another dimension, can be traversed like any other dimension.

The theory of relativity does already show us one possible way of travelling into the future. It supposes that if someone travelled away from the earth at (or near) the speed of light, and back again, that time would have moved more slowly for the traveller, and in effect a lot more time will have passed on earth than has passed for the traveller, meaning that he/she has travelled into the future.

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#13 22-10-2006 12:10am

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dont forget t bring me to the year 5792!

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#14 22-10-2006 1:34am

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As I've thought about time travel the closest thing I could come up with from human experience is sleep. It's in the "eye of the perceiver". We perceive that we have travelled in time in a way. Does that make sense?

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#15 22-10-2006 9:04am

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Don't you think that if time-travel was possible, our future selfs would've come back to our time and jumped out and scared us or something already. It's not possible.

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#16 22-10-2006 9:35am

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Spike wrote:

It's not even slightly possible to travel into the future. The past, yes. The future, no.
The past has happened, so you know what's happened and when it happened. Anything can happen in the future, there's literally an infinite amount of possibilities that can happen.

Hell if I didn't type this things could turn out differently than if I did type this. Which I am doing.
Technically speaking, the future hasn't happened yet. We can only take a guess as to what's going to happen.

It's much easier to travel into the future. I'm doing it right now. Wheee!

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#17 22-10-2006 10:07am

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seamus wrote:

That's not a given unfortunately. The idea that the future is predetermined is not a nice one, but it's definitely a possibility. Einstein's work opens up the possibility that time, being another dimension, can be traversed like any other dimension.

The theory of relativity does already show us one possible way of travelling into the future. It supposes that if someone travelled away from the earth at (or near) the speed of light, and back again, that time would have moved more slowly for the traveller, and in effect a lot more time will have passed on earth than has passed for the traveller, meaning that he/she has travelled into the future.

Well yeah that's fair enough, but you can't step into a machine, punch in 2122 and travel to that time. You could speed up time (using the relativity theory) and return, but you can't just pop into a point in the future.

/edit: I'm more running on philosophy rather than physics here...

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#18 22-10-2006 10:14am

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I thought they stopped making flux capacitors back in the 80's, and we all know that's what makes time travel possible.

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#19 22-10-2006 10:29am

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They did, but they started adding them to Ford Mondeos without the consumers' knowledge.

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#20 22-10-2006 11:07am

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if it were possible to travel in the future, i'd certainly give anything for the trip! (just make sure it's round trip...don't wanna be lost in there):rolleyes:

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#21 22-10-2006 11:27am

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I love how that website's first two words are "Morlocks aside,"

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#22 22-10-2006 11:51am

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There has never been a record of anyone ever coming or going from this time to another in the future, therefore timetravel will probably never exist, whether it's possible to do so or not. In otherwords, if timetravel will exist in the future, unless they've previously only ever visited the past before this moment in our time, then we'd know about them.

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#23 22-10-2006 11:59am

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Binomate wrote:

There has never been a record of anyone ever coming or going from this time to another in the future, therefore timetravel will probably never exist, whether it's possible to do so or not. In otherwords, if timetravel will exist in the future, unless they've previously only ever visited the past before this moment in our time, then we'd know about them.

Current time travel theory suggests that if a machine was ever built which could carry one into the past, then you could only travel back as far as the day that the machine was first built. It does offer a plausible explanation about the "how come we've never seen a time traveller" question. Personally though I think it's on rather shaky ground - the explanation of why is heavily embedded in quantum physics, and is built upon th existence of highly theoretical objects like quantum strings.

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