RE: Where are the people from the future?
September 2, 2014 at 5:34 pm
(This post was last modified: September 2, 2014 at 5:42 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(September 2, 2014 at 5:30 pm)bladevalant546 Wrote: Ask Australians...apparently they are from the future.
A few Australian I've met were apparently from so far in the future that they had reached all the way around the loop of time to become Neanderthals again.
(September 1, 2014 at 1:40 pm)Endo Wrote:(September 1, 2014 at 1:25 pm)Losty Wrote: What?
Arrow shows flow of time forward. If purple is when the machine STOPPED working for some time, but then was turned BACK ON, can someone in the red timezone travel to black, or only within red?
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The understand seems to be no. As I understand it, this theory says time machine can theoretically grant access to any point in time within its current period of continuous operation, whether that's in the past or in the future. Once it is turned off, the points in time accessible before it was turned off becomes inaccessible forever. If you turn it on again, you can only freely access any time during the new period when it remained on, not a previous period when it was on.
Don't ask me what happens if you have multiple time machines with partially overlapping periods of operation.
This doesn't really solve paradox of time, but this notion did come out of the mouth of a Nobel prize winning physicist, and it does seem to solve the problem of why there are no visitors from the future.
