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[ - ] ProudRebel 3 points 6 monthsOct 13, 2023 17:42:52 ago (+3/-0)

I met Bigfoot once. We were doing mushrooms and that fucker sat at our campfire and swapped lies with us.

[ - ] Trope 3 points 6 monthsOct 13, 2023 19:14:44 ago (+3/-0)

Bullshit.

Not what you just said but whatever Bigfoot told you guys.

[ - ] DeusExMachina 1 point 6 monthsOct 13, 2023 20:01:49 ago (+1/-0)

I know for a fact this is not entirely true. I was out scouting some new hunting spots when I ran into him. I walked around the corner of this rock outcrop and there he was right in front of me. His back was to me and he was sort of hunched over and bracing himself with one arm against a tree and appeared to be experiencing a seizure or some similar malady. I stopped and froze in shock as my brain tried to process what my eyes were telling it. That's a bigfoot. Yep. He's leaning against this tree right in front of me. Yep. He seems to be hurt or something. Nope. It was at that point the bastard, still leaning on that tree, turns half towards me and it was only then that I fully realized what was going on. This giant, hairy brute is jerking himself off!

He called out to me as I was frantically fleeing back from whence I came and I will never forget what he said to me. "They'll never believe you!"

And I'll be damned if that giant sunovabitch wasn't right. So, in conclusion, he does tell the truth. At least some of the time.

[ - ] lord_nougat 0 points 6 monthsOct 14, 2023 00:29:10 ago (+0/-0)

TIL: Bigfoot is a politician.

[ - ] lord_nougat 3 points 6 monthsOct 13, 2023 16:55:06 ago (+3/-0)

I travel forward in time constantly.

[ - ] Trope 3 points 6 monthsOct 13, 2023 19:15:26 ago (+3/-0)

I have a time machine in my bedroom that travels 8 hours into the future with intermittent breaks along the way.

[ - ] PotatoWhisperer2 2 points 6 monthsOct 13, 2023 22:12:49 ago (+2/-0)

Those time-travel bathroom breaks occur more often as you age.

[ - ] Anus_Expander 1 point 6 monthsOct 13, 2023 23:47:05 ago (+1/-0)

No, you are always in the present

[ - ] lord_nougat 0 points 6 monthsOct 14, 2023 00:18:37 ago (+0/-0)

No u.

[ - ] Anus_Expander 0 points 6 monthsOct 13, 2023 23:46:19 ago (+0/-0)

Time is a concept, not a thing to be manipulated. It is a way of measuring duration.

[ - ] bosunmoon 0 points 6 monthsOct 13, 2023 18:25:03 ago (+0/-0)

Time doesn't exist, the universe is recursive.

[ - ] localsal 0 points 6 monthsOct 13, 2023 17:51:36 ago (+0/-0)

The biggest problems with time travel and teleportation are how the boundaries are created.

What exactly gets sent? Is it the extent of living cells? Then the outer layer of skin would not be sent, and at the destination, the subject would be in quite a lot of pain.

What exactly is the mind? Is it the physical neurons in the brain? Or a connection to something beyond the physical? Would that be disrupted and the subject arrives at the destination with a totally empty memory?

The general idea of time travel cannot be fully realized without deep a conversation into these (and other) topics.

[ - ] deleted 0 points 6 monthsOct 13, 2023 18:27:18 ago (+0/-0)

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[ - ] localsal 1 point 6 monthsOct 13, 2023 18:42:39 ago (+1/-0)

I am not traveling through time. I am traveling through "change" as GottaGasEmAll correctly pointed out.

That being said, the implied idea of time travel is to jump backwards or forwards by a considerable amount, rather than just ride the current time.

As to the answers to those questions - in previous posts, I have given my ideas, the conclusion of which is that both time travel and teleportation are and will be impossible.

[ - ] deleted 0 points 6 monthsOct 13, 2023 19:33:30 ago (+0/-0)

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[ - ] localsal 1 point 6 monthsOct 13, 2023 19:37:19 ago (+1/-0)

I am very interested to learn of this. Any links?

[ - ] deleted 2 points 6 monthsOct 13, 2023 21:38:28 ago (+2/-0)

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[ - ] AntiPostmodernist [op] 0 points 6 monthsOct 13, 2023 18:46:47 ago (+0/-0)

What exactly gets sent? Is it the extent of living cells? Then the outer layer of skin would not be sent, and at the destination, the subject would be in quite a lot of pain.

Why would we only be able to send living cells, but not dead ones?

What exactly is the mind? Is it the physical neurons in the brain? Or a connection to something beyond the physical? Would that be disrupted and the subject arrives at the destination with a totally empty memory?

If we could safely send the whole body back, then that wouldn't be any more of a issue than worrying about whether your mind would come with you into the next 24 hours of your life.

The general idea of time travel cannot be fully realized without deep a conversation into these (and other) topics.

Ok, here's one: superpositioning, when two objects occupy the same space at the same time. Its a major problem for time travel, teleportation, and FTL travel systems. When we move around normally, we are pushing our way around other things around us on the way to our destinations, reaching our destination in a more direct manner would superimpose us upon whatever particles existed at the destination. Would it resolve itself like it does within quantum mechanics? Collapsing into one possible state or another?

[ - ] localsal 0 points 6 monthsOct 13, 2023 19:04:31 ago (+0/-0)

The question isn't necessarily asking about living vs dead cells, but rather the idea of how to define and create the boundary. The living cells was just an example based on the 1984 movie "Terminator" and their concept of time travel.

If the mind is an external connection, an analogy would be to take a long trip in a car, but forget to pack. All of the comforts reside in your local residence, and not being able to take them produces an effect, right? This is something that the mind/brain/soul dilemma poses. It is definitely a longer conversation.

Your last question of superposition - along with the question of space-time - is a good one as well.

Is the physical appearance based on a position relative to a single point? or is it based on a reference point to the universe? Does that reference point follow through time, or is it based on the current time?

For example, the earth right now is billions of miles removed from where it was a year ago in the universe, right? With universe expansion, galaxy rotation, etc. Where is the physical "landing" point?

And even a relative point varies with time - think of standing right now on the top of buried ruins to a city, going back to a time when the city was alive, wouldn't that "land" the person in the air, and they would fall to their possible death when transported?

The ideas of time travel and teleportation mostly deal with breaking the body down into the basic particles, and then reassembling them back together in the new location, without having any equipment in the landing zone? Very unlikely.

[ - ] Localuser 0 points 6 monthsOct 13, 2023 22:01:21 ago (+0/-0)

I wish we had more answers. Hopefully when I die they’ll take me into a room and explain everything to me

[ - ] localsal 0 points 6 monthsOct 14, 2023 00:08:38 ago (+0/-0)

I like the theory of heaven being a cloud outside of the multiverse, and death being a respawning into another timeline.

In the cloud outside of the multiverse, every timeline can be seen and all things are known, but when inside of a timeline/universe, only limited knowledge of the outside can be retained, only experiential learning along that timeline can be gathered. Sucks that so much knowledge is out there somewhere, but unattainable, but that is life I guess.

[ - ] GottaGasEmAll 0 points 6 monthsOct 13, 2023 16:58:03 ago (+0/-0)

Time isn't an actual thing, its just stuff moving and you remembering where it was