Poll: An interesting question on traveling through time.
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Except in this case the probability is not decreasing.Maze1125 said:
There is a set amount of matter (can't be created/destroyed), and a set amount of combinations of those matters.
If you have 3 blocks to line up, there are only 6 combinations. 12 if you're allowed to work in two dimensions, and so on.
This is, of course, a much larger number of "blocks" and they aren't limited to two dimensions, but after a long enough time a pattern WILL repeat itself. And since we're working with an infinite amount of time, ALL patterns will eventually repeat themselves. And again. And again. And again.
We'll if you travel to the future, you might run into Morlocks... I'd rather bring my knowledge of math, science and economics to the past and become a god.
Actually they hardily ever burned witches. Only two burnings of witches were recorded in England. As for the rest of them, they were hanged.danneloid said:Well im gonna be a partypooper and say that time dosnt exist, the difference between one second and a year is nothing compared to eternity. Time is something humans have invented to keep track of dates it isnt something fysical that we can manipulate in any way. But playing with thought i would go back in time to the middle ages and bring a lighter a gun and a flashlight to freak people out. (gun is to protect myself when they want to burn me for beeing a witch.oh and btw you cant go back in time and fuck things up since u went back it has already happened and it was the point of your timeline.
OT: I don't know. On one hand I go back and take over the world. On the other I go forward and see what wonderful new things there are in the future. I think I'd go forwards.
If, when two blocks are put together, they are likely to stay together, then the probability of a combination occurring, where the two blocks are apart, has decreased.Poke_Freak said:
This is our universe. Gravity exists, electromagnetism exists, the nuclear forces exist, entropy exists.
The longer our universe exists for, the less and less likely interesting combinations are to occur.
Although I accept that the opportunity to see the wonders of the future is a potentially mind-blowing prospect, H.G. Well's 'The Time Machine' springs to mind. The Unknown Horrors of the future are, in my humble opinion, a far more dangerous, and ludicrous prospect than the well known and (generally) fairly safe lands of the past. There are also many things that one could visit in the past, and technology (as long as you don't get hung for witchcraft) could make you a wealthy man.
Also, what if there were to be a Nuclear Apocalypse in the (near) future, and you landed in a barren, zombie filled wasteland?
Call me traditionalist but shenanigans in the past will always be preferable to death in the future
Also, what if there were to be a Nuclear Apocalypse in the (near) future, and you landed in a barren, zombie filled wasteland?
Call me traditionalist but shenanigans in the past will always be preferable to death in the future
if I had to, I'd choose the future because even just going back in time, no matter how little you do there will destroy the universe as we know it but the future has not happened yet so it can be changed as much as we like (at least, that's how I see it)
is that really your biggest fear Jamface? "excuse me waiter, there appears to be a time-traveler in my soup!"... sorry, very bad attempt at humour slipped out there.Jamface said:
meh, to be honest, time-travel doesn't interest me too much, i can only see myself as being an outcast whether i go into the future or past... i'd be unnatural, unexplained and creepy... bit like the merchant in "resident evil 4" (wonder if he's a time traveller from the very near would-have-been future ], where Leon failed the mission because he only had a frikking pistol! "dumbasses" he thought... so he time travelled to europe with guns... which still doesn't explain why he always brings the better ones out after you've upgraded all the not-so-good ones)
anyway, i went off on a tangent there... where was i? oh yeah... i used to say things like "wouldn't it have been awesome to have been in the samurai times and trained to be the best swords-master ever, nheh nheh nheh"... but as i matured and realised that actually, i'm just a geek and would never have fitted in there no matter how much sword-training i did. so any past that i previously wanted to go in would now be (in my eyes) pointless. and the future would be just as bleak a promise as far as i'm concerned. i wouldn't know how to use "plasma pistols" or how to survive the "zombie apocolypse/infected-human apocolyspe"... yes, very generalized i know... but it would suck.
anyone seen that episode of Family Guy where Brian gets an older woman? if you have, then a running gag in that episode is her using terms that Brian can't understand because they are really old-fashioned, most of the time being when she want's him to grab something off the bedside table.
so i can easily imagine the scene where i am fleeing from Zombies, throwing the expensive plasma rifle at them because i sure as hell don't know how to use it in any other way and am lead by my 3 comrades(who are very tempted to 'mistake me for infected') into a house, were i shout "quick, they are completely retarded, if we hide in this large cupboard, we'll be safe til they leave!"... to which they all pause and laugh, calling me insane, then laughing harder as i have to visually show them what i mean by entering the "clotherithemic invetorimeter 3010.5.3.1"... i just noticed how a lot of future/sciency/confusingmachinary sounding words are really easy to make up, as they seem to consist of ending in one of 4 sounds... or all of those sounds.
but if i got caught by... i dunno, extremist's and was forced to time travel, i'd probably pick the future and a load of games for the Gamecube (as those are the only ones i have that aren't scratched to hell and back!)... have you seen how much some games are going for at the moment http://www.play.com/Games/GameCube/4-/151003/Metal-Gear-Solid-The-Twin-Snakes/Product.html ... imagine in like, 20 years time! its all ready more than what i purchased for it originally!
... i wonder if by then they'd have figured out the storyline for Metal Gear Solid... hmmm?
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then I could find all my recent ancestors, So great grand parents grandparents and parents and kill them. Thus removing myself from time and making mme imortal.
All I'm saying is: What if time is not the fragile butterfly wing that science experts keep saying? What if time is more like a chain-link fence you can't hardly fuck up?
If i went back alot furthur i would have a little fun, Burn a couple choice books , Save the libary of alexandria
I mean, even if I messed alot of things up, even ten hundred times. how would you ever know? Any present moment, any "right now,? we get what we get. You know?
10 internets for whoever figures out what i am making refrence too...
ohh and
I saw atleast one person say they would "go forward in time and getr a time machine"
thats like going to a thread that says "if you could wish for one thing what would it be" and putting "more wishes
then I could find all my recent ancestors, So great grand parents grandparents and parents and kill them. Thus removing myself from time and making mme imortal.
All I'm saying is: What if time is not the fragile butterfly wing that science experts keep saying? What if time is more like a chain-link fence you can't hardly fuck up?
If i went back alot furthur i would have a little fun, Burn a couple choice books , Save the libary of alexandria
I mean, even if I messed alot of things up, even ten hundred times. how would you ever know? Any present moment, any "right now,? we get what we get. You know?
10 internets for whoever figures out what i am making refrence too...
ohh and
I saw atleast one person say they would "go forward in time and getr a time machine"
thats like going to a thread that says "if you could wish for one thing what would it be" and putting "more wishes
forwads as to not having my brain explode and my body tearing itselfs so far inside-out from the time mechanics.
for example if you went back in time to stop man inventing fire (for whatever reason). Then you don't what's what about time travel because you would have already failed because it has already happened.
for example if you went back in time to stop man inventing fire (for whatever reason). Then you don't what's what about time travel because you would have already failed because it has already happened.
The TARDIS is a special case because it creates its own time bubble around it (or at least the type 40 does) which allows it to travel linearly or circularly (or sideways into E-Space or N-Space) without the self-annihilation paradox. (Hence the Blinovich Limitation)The Shade said:
Give the TADS, a type 40 can usually hold off a nuclear strike. But it does set the cloister bell ringing.
