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In honor of today's eclipse, a scientific/philosophical poll
Posted by: PeterB
Date: May 20, 2012 11:29PM
Poll
Is time travel possible?
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40 votes were received.
Yes, but only to the future8
 
20%
Yes, but only to the past0
 
0%
Yes, to both the future and the past8
 
20%
Maybe, it is not possible to know for sure10
 
25%
No, no way, no how10
 
25%
Yes, but only in crappy sci-fi and fantasy3
 
8%
How the heck should I know? Tomorrow is yesterday for me. tongue sticking out smiley1
 
2%



... some of you might get the somewhat esoteric reference. grinning smiley




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Re: In honor of today's eclipse, a scientific/philosophical poll
Posted by: blooz
Date: May 20, 2012 11:37PM
Sometimes, in my mind, yesterday is tomorrow—or should be.



Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?
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Re: In honor of today's eclipse, a scientific/philosophical poll
Posted by: Aardvark
Date: May 21, 2012 12:58AM
All I know for sure is Today is Tomorrows' Yesterdaysecret smiley
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Re: In honor of today's eclipse, a scientific/philosophical poll
Posted by: pRICE cUBE
Date: May 21, 2012 12:59AM
Some Star Trek stuff is becoming reality so I am going to say, if it was done on the show, it will happen in real life. I just won't be alive when it does.





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Re: In honor of today's eclipse, a scientific/philosophical poll
Posted by: RgrF
Date: May 21, 2012 01:11AM
How else to explain Regis Philbin.
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Re: In honor of today's eclipse, a scientific/philosophical poll
Posted by: Mike Johnson
Date: May 21, 2012 01:23AM
Sure, but we could never perceive it.



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Re: In honor of today's eclipse, a scientific/philosophical poll
Posted by: WHiiP
Date: May 21, 2012 05:39AM
Yes, but not in any way that we currently perceive it. nuts smiley



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Re: In honor of today's eclipse, a scientific/philosophical poll
Posted by: Chakravartin
Date: May 21, 2012 05:45AM
[en.wikipedia.org]

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Re: In honor of today's eclipse, a scientific/philosophical poll
Posted by: Tofer
Date: May 21, 2012 07:19AM
Time travel to the future is demonstrably possible. We do it every day at a rate of 1 minute per minute. However, special relativity dictates that we can travel at virtually any faster rate as long as we speed up moving through space. If you travel at a speed close enough to the speed of light, you could, potentially, fly away from Earth and then back in (say) a year of your time, and find that the Earth and all of its stationary inhabitants have aged hundreds of years.
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Re: In honor of today's eclipse, a scientific/philosophical poll
Posted by: mrlynn
Date: May 21, 2012 07:27AM
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Yes, but only in crappy sci-fi and fantasy

Not all time-travel SF stories are 'crappy'.

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Maybe, it is not possible to know for sure

Better: "Maybe, but unlikely, given what we know about the universe. But then, we know very little."

Best: "The possibility must be kept open, if only to inspire more good SF time-travel stories."

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Re: In honor of today's eclipse, a scientific/philosophical poll
Posted by: the_poochies
Date: May 21, 2012 07:41AM
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Re: In honor of today's eclipse, a scientific/philosophical poll
Posted by: colonel panic
Date: May 21, 2012 08:56AM
if it was possible, wouldn't someone from the future have come back by now to tell us about it.



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Re: In honor of today's eclipse, a scientific/philosophical poll
Posted by: mrthuse
Date: May 21, 2012 09:26AM
Somewhere I have an ancient Flash comic where he gets on a treadmill and runs faster than the earth is turning in the same direction, thus sending him into comic book future. Think Superman did much the same thing in one story when he flew around the earth in the opposite direction of its spin to go back in time.
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Re: In honor of today's eclipse, a scientific/philosophical poll
Posted by: billb
Date: May 21, 2012 09:32AM
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colonel panic
if it was possible, wouldn't someone from the future have come back by now to tell us about it.

Only if there is a future.



Course, maybe there is no compelling reason to travel back ......
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Re: In honor of today's eclipse, a scientific/philosophical poll
Posted by: pRICE cUBE
Date: May 21, 2012 09:41AM
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colonel panic
if it was possible, wouldn't someone from the future have come back by now to tell us about it.

Maybe someone did, then someone else went back and stopped that person. Hmmmmmmmm.....





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Re: In honor of today's eclipse, a scientific/philosophical poll
Posted by: cbelt3
Date: May 21, 2012 10:54AM
I tend to subscribe to the "Multiverse" theory. But it's all mathematics far beyond my damaged brain's ability to understand (and perhaps my undamaged brain's ability... I mean, I did get through Differential Equations, but I sucked at it.)
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Re: In honor of today's eclipse, a scientific/philosophical poll
Posted by: motopsyco
Date: May 21, 2012 11:58AM
I'm still getting a grip on the whole "Spaceship Earth" thing put forth back in the sixties and seventies. If this is "Spaceship Earth" we're on, why in the hell are we traveling in circles?

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