Time Travel

[phatcactus]

Yeah, really... The Weekly World News? Don't you kids ever go to grocery stores?

[mr. k]

hey it is tight! - (didn't check the source though :b ) But how much fun would that be?

[habilis]

Originally posted by Darkshadow
Well, no, not exactly. One would say that he had been here, so in fact he had to travel back, or that would change the future. And, if he had changed the future to where he wasn't born, he'd still be here. He's outside of his timestream, so to speak, so it wouldn't affect him.

I thought about it like that too, as in branches or layers of the same time line that would diverge if someone went back in time and changed an event, any event. Like if I went back in time and assainated Hitler, at that point there would be a branching off of the time line into a 2nd reality, creating an alternate future totally independent of this one. In effect that would be the 4th dimension and that's where it gets supernatural and almost to hard to for me to believe. Because how could there be 2 different realities, 2 different worlds, filling the same space at the same time? Way to twilight zone for me...

[chemistry_geek]

Sorry to burst everyone's bubble, but this story is COMPLETELY FICTION! It was first published in an internet tabloid a few months ago, and surprisingly, the Slasdot editors didn't catch it, so many people believe it's real when in fact it is not.

Look here (Urban Legends):

http://www.snopes.com/

It will tell you the history behind this story too.

[Androo]

ok, in the movie donnie darko, donnie was supposed to die. He changed his destiny. You can't change your destiny, can you? because your destiny is already there, and it cant change. If you do change it, it was already changed by the person before you, making your destiny the same. That's some knowledge i had to let off my chest, and my stomach. i don't mind french fries, but i hate freedom fries.

[Darkshadow]

Hey, I never said I believed the story I was just going on the theories of time travel here

habilis, it'd be more of a parallel universe than the 4th dimension. Well, I suppose that would include the 4th dimension as well - occupying the same space but a different time.

Androo, you can change your destiny, but it isn't easy. The paths aren't set, but they're structured. If you try to diverge onto another path, you'll find yourself returning to the earlier one at a different point unless you keep changing it. One small change doesn't really alter the whole, it takes many changes to do that. You have to get to a point where there's absolutely no way back to the original.

[wdw_]

Darkshadow: I love figuring out time travel paradoxes in my head. It gives me the same feeling as when I hear "If a tree falls in the forest, and there is no one around to hear it, does it make any noise?". Or the same feeling as when I imagine floating in space with no stars or any planets, just black everywhere.

[fryke]

The same site talks about S. Hussein appearing in gay porn movies and hearing voices and other very colourful things. I'd say they have good writers.

However, it's a fun thing to read.