Re: PHYSICS/SPACE: Legitimate time travel proposal

From: Randy Smith (randysmith101@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat May 19 2001 - 12:19:17 MDT



>From: "Ross A. Finlayson"
>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org
>To: extropians@extropy.org
>Subject: Re: PHYSICS/SPACE: Legitimate time travel proposal
>Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 12:10:31 -0400
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>Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de wrote:
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> > Anders Sandberg wrote:
> > >
> > > Is it just me, or are everyone implicitly assuming it will work? It
> >
> > No. I would be very much surprised if it would work. But that there
> > exists a remote possibility of it working, and that people think it's
> > worth doing an experiment is pretty much mindboggling.

Well, the important thing, as I think John De Rivaz pointed out, (and that no one else has really brought out), is that the implication is that IF this thing is MINIMALLY workable, then all we really need is for INFORMATION to be passed down to us from the future through the machine (which would conceivably happen as soon as the machine is turned on (if it works). Never mind hopping in the machine as la HG Wells....

That *information* ( minimally nano-encoded? ) from the future could be...well, I am sure you can all imagine....

Basically, a Bootstrap Scenario would ensue.

This is basic Hollywood stuff, of course.


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