From: Randall Randall (wolfkin@phonetech.com)
Date: Wed Oct 21 1998 - 11:51:37 MDT
Dan wrote:
> Lady D'Los wrote:
> >Two simple questions which I feel will tickle your brain cells...
> >Timetravel, a Transhuman possability, or just a daydream? Would it be a
> >good thing, or disastrous?
>
> Into the future? Absolutely. Backwards? Almost certainly not.
Oh, I dunno...
> Consider: if we were develop backwards time travel at some point in the
> future, then someone could have gone back in time to some point before
> today. If time travel will be discovered, then it has already happened.
OK, I can follow you so far: if you return to the past of
yourself, you were always part of that past. However, if
we introduce the idea of "Many Worlds", another possibility
arises: that we may be able to return to a past exactly
similar to our own, but with the addition of ourselves (the
time travelers). The only difficulty I can see is that
there appears to be no way to get back to the "present" you
left.
> Thus, due to the very nature of time travel, if it hasn't happened already,
> we can safely assume that it never will.
Even this is a very weak argument against, since
you would have to show that it was likely that it
*hadn't* happened.
Wolfkin.
wolfkin@phonetech.com
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