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Hawking: Time travel will happen -- (link)

Posted by crash davis (aka crash davis) May 6 '10, 13:28

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http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20003949-71.html (news.cnet.com)

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i've already done it - the narcissist May 6, 13:44 2
- why didn't you warn Sean Payton and his staff not to steal vicodin while you were back there? -- nm - peace machine May 6, 13:47
- drunk dialing exes can be a form of travel to the past -- nm - crash davis May 6, 13:46
I believe most of that as well. - JaxSean May 6, 13:34
I need to go find Doc Brown -- nm - eag May 6, 13:34
Looks sound. He keeps the "no travel to the past" tenet. -- nm - nubby May 6, 13:32 3
- first thing i'm gonna do is go back in time and kill Steven Hawking -- nm - peace machine May 6, 13:35 2
  - going back would contradict Hawkis predictions -- nm - SuperRustyMan II May 6, 13:36
  - */ People get ready / Pixie is comin' /* -- nm - nubby May 6, 13:36
So ... we're already traveling through time, but soon we'll be able to do it faster. Yay. -- nm - Beryllium May 6, 13:31 3
- when the universe start to schrink all sorts of funnyness is assured -- nm - SuperRustyMan II May 6, 13:33 2
  - Hawking actually says he doesn't think it's going to shrink. -- nm - Ender May 6, 13:35 1
    - i know the idear was thown out about 5-10 years ago -- nm - SuperRustyMan II May 6, 13:39
Sure, forward time travel. Hell, we're all doing that already. -- nm - Ender May 6, 13:31 1
- at the speed of light no less -- nm - SuperRustyMan II May 6, 13:31
50% true -- nm - SuperRustyMan II May 6, 13:30
So in other words, time travel has happened. -- nm - mara May 6, 13:29 2
- it's sort of always happening. -- nm - Reagen May 6, 13:30
- time travel will has happened. -- nm - znufrii May 6, 13:30
Oh fuck -- nm - Hitler May 6, 13:29 23
- You're safe. You managed to effect the world in such a way that nagating you would negate time travel, therefore negating your negation. -- nm - TWuG May 6, 13:32 22
  - As I figure it, if backwards time travel were possible, we'd already know about it. - Reagen May 6, 13:33 20
    - i know it doesn't exist - the narcissist May 6, 13:48
    - Unless we're on Timeline Alpha, and the backwards-travel creates new timelines that we'll never experience unless we're the ones who go back -- nm - Beryllium May 6, 13:42 2
      - We just need Superboy to punch the universe back into continuity. -- nm - Reagen May 6, 13:43 1
        
        *shrug* I've always just envisioned real timetravel as a cross between Sliders and the USS Relativity. - Beryllium May 6, 13:44
    - Exactly. There'd need to be some serious mission discipline to keep it secret from the past. -- nm - TWuG May 6, 13:35 11
      - Not exactly. How seriously are you going to take me if I said I met a time traveller from the future? -- nm - crash davis May 6, 13:39 10
        
        You honestly think we'd not end up with a Berlinghoff Rasmussen playing in the time stream? - TWuG May 6, 13:42 7
        
        or your artifact would be dismissed as a wild report as it disappears into a secret warehouse that already holds the Ark of the Covenant -- nm - crash davis May 6, 13:46 2
        
        But that still implies someone in the present being aware of time travel. Not "publicly" known is a far cry from "not known". -- nm - TWuG May 6, 13:47 1
        
        Granted. So it may be known, but just not by us -- nm - crash davis May 6, 13:48
        
        "James T, Kirk. 17 seperate temporal violations. The worst offender ever." -- nm - Federation Temporal Police May 6, 13:44
        
        *points at Leonardo DaVinci* -- nm - Beryllium May 6, 13:43 2
        
        Or Hawking! His Time Machine malfunctioned and crippled him while leaving him stranded in the past (our present) -- nm - TWuG May 6, 13:46 1
        
        ... and getting hit by a car was actually an attack by another time traveler! -- nm - Beryllium May 6, 13:47
        
        And people in the middle ages would lack the vocabulary to mention time travellers. They would be demons or angels -- nm - crash davis May 6, 13:40
        
        just as serious as i take you when you say all the other fool things you say -- nm - peace machine May 6, 13:40
    - Only if they were public about it. -- nm - Ender May 6, 13:34 3
      - Have you met us humans? We're physically incapable of not douching something like that up. -- nm - TFox May 6, 13:40
      - it would be constantly being reinvented. -- nm - Reagen May 6, 13:36
      - "Come out of the time machine, Tom Cruise." -- nm - nubby May 6, 13:35
  - "affect". -- nm - TWuG May 6, 13:33

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