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In response to "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" by TWuG

As I figure it, if backwards time travel were possible, we'd already know about it.

Posted by Reagen (aka Reagen) May 6 '10, 13:33

it would exist at all times through history.

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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

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As I figure it, if backwards time travel were possible, we'd already know about it.

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