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Time Travel a la Stephen Hawking
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RE: Time Travel a la Stephen Hawking
I've always disliked the idea of time travel, because I've never encountered an idea that actually worked without creating hypothetical paradoxes. If I had to say one way or the other, I'd have to say that I do not believe time travel is possible. 'Time is the name given to our linear perception of existence', is one thing I've heard (somewhere) that makes sense to me. 'The Past' is not a physical location, therefore one cannot physically travel to it.

Let's say that I was able to travel 20 years into the future. The 'future' that I would find would not be the same 'future' that would have been had I not time traveled. Instead, it would be a future in which my personal influence had disappeared on the day I left, i.e. a future in which I have not existed for 20 years.
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Time Travel a la Stephen Hawking - by Skeptisma - August 6, 2010 at 4:58 pm
RE: Time Travel a la Stephen Hawking - by Darwinian - August 6, 2010 at 7:02 pm
RE: Time Travel a la Stephen Hawking - by Skeptisma - August 6, 2010 at 8:00 pm
RE: Time Travel a la Stephen Hawking - by Nitsuj - August 6, 2010 at 7:07 pm
RE: Time Travel a la Stephen Hawking - by Darwinian - August 6, 2010 at 7:12 pm
RE: Time Travel a la Stephen Hawking - by Nitsuj - August 6, 2010 at 7:50 pm
RE: Time Travel a la Stephen Hawking - by Darwinian - August 6, 2010 at 9:28 pm
RE: Time Travel a la Stephen Hawking - by Paul the Human - August 7, 2010 at 11:01 am
RE: Time Travel a la Stephen Hawking - by AnunZi - August 9, 2010 at 6:55 am
RE: Time Travel a la Stephen Hawking - by Paul the Human - August 9, 2010 at 11:12 am
RE: Time Travel a la Stephen Hawking - by AnunZi - August 9, 2010 at 11:53 am
RE: Time Travel a la Stephen Hawking - by SleepingDemon - August 8, 2010 at 11:12 am
RE: Time Travel a la Stephen Hawking - by ABierman1986 - August 8, 2010 at 3:07 pm

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