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RE: Where are the people from the future?
August 31, 2014 at 10:39 pm
As the universe expands and the overall density of 'stuff' decreases, eventually you get to the point (after a REALLY long time) where there isn't even a single particle of any kind in a volume of space enormously larger than our entire universe now, and then the universe keeps expanding and expanding and expanding.
Eventually, the 'arrow of time' becomes erratic (and 'fails') as there isn't 'anything' left in the universe for time to impinge upon.
It's pretty depressing, really. In the long run, the universe erases itself. Nothing matters, nothing at all is eternal, the fate of and for everything is infinite dilution in an infinite void . . .
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RE: Where are the people from the future?
September 1, 2014 at 3:50 am
(August 31, 2014 at 9:34 pm)Losty Wrote: (August 31, 2014 at 9:30 pm)KUSA Wrote: The arrow of time only goes forward. The entropy of the universe can't be undone.
Would this also mean that if we could travel to the future, we wouldn't be able to return?
Hypothetically, if you could travel in to the future by skipping time (we are always travelling into the future, but can do so at different rates) then I suppose you should be able to travel back in time to where you started, but no further. If you can travel back to before your time, then you can make paradoxes (like the grandfather paradox), which is an impossible situation, so getting to a point where you can do something impossible should be impossible.
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RE: Where are the people from the future?
September 1, 2014 at 5:48 am
(August 31, 2014 at 6:18 pm)lifesagift Wrote: ..think about it... technology is bounding forward, splitting atoms etc..so let's guess that in the next 100 years we'll suss out anti gravity, and maybe invisibility in 300 years.. and maybe time travel in a thousand years time...? But if they discover time travel, they can then go into the future and discover more technical ways or improving it... so it will be easy to travel back in time... and then mass produce it for everyone almost as a recreation... so take that 10,000 years hence, with population increases.. surely most people that live in the future will be visiting ancestors in the past ?
So where are they?
The past and the future are mental constructs built from memory and prediction. They are not physical places that exist.
You cannot travel somewhere that does not exist.
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RE: Where are the people from the future?
September 1, 2014 at 6:03 am
(This post was last modified: September 1, 2014 at 6:10 am by Anomalocaris.)
(August 31, 2014 at 9:30 pm)KUSA Wrote: The arrow of time only goes forward. The entropy of the universe can't be undone.
Going back I time does not imply entropy is undone. If you were to go for time B back to time A and change subsequent history, it seems entirely plausible that how you can change subsequent history is constricted by laws of physics to maintaining precisely the same amount of entropy increase in the new progression of time from A to B as in the original progression from A to B.
One possible explanation that has been advanced for why there are no traveler from the future in the present is the same time machine one uses to travel back in time must have already been operating at the destination time in order for time travel to be possible at all. a ie, a time machine can only transport you to any time in history after the time machine itself has already been built and turned on. If no time machine has been invented yet, then your will see no time traveler from the future because time travel to before the first time machine began operation is impossible.
But once the first time machine has been invented, built, and switched on, then time travelers for during the life span of the time machine may freely go back and forth to any time period when this machine has continuously operated.
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RE: Where are the people from the future?
September 1, 2014 at 1:12 pm
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RE: Where are the people from the future?
September 1, 2014 at 1:25 pm
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RE: Where are the people from the future?
September 1, 2014 at 1:40 pm
(September 1, 2014 at 1:25 pm)Losty Wrote: (September 1, 2014 at 1:12 pm)Endo Wrote: So, if there is a discontinuity in the operation of the machine, would time travelers forward of that discontinuity be able to travel further past that that discontinuity, or only back to the discontinuity?
What?
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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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Re: RE: Where are the people from the future?
September 1, 2014 at 6:13 pm
(September 1, 2014 at 5:48 am)ManMachine Wrote: (August 31, 2014 at 6:18 pm)lifesagift Wrote: ..think about it... technology is bounding forward, splitting atoms etc..so let's guess that in the next 100 years we'll suss out anti gravity, and maybe invisibility in 300 years.. and maybe time travel in a thousand years time...? But if they discover time travel, they can then go into the future and discover more technical ways or improving it... so it will be easy to travel back in time... and then mass produce it for everyone almost as a recreation... so take that 10,000 years hence, with population increases.. surely most people that live in the future will be visiting ancestors in the past ?
So where are they?
The past and the future are mental constructs built from memory and prediction. They are not physical places that exist.
You cannot travel somewhere that does not exist.
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This is the truth. The fantasy of time travel only exists because people don't understand what time is.
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RE: Where are the people from the future?
September 2, 2014 at 1:49 am
(August 31, 2014 at 6:18 pm)lifesagift Wrote: So where are they?
We're busy betting on sporting events and markets, and rigging elections.
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RE: Where are the people from the future?
September 2, 2014 at 5:30 pm
Ask Australians...apparently they are from the future.
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