Friday, June 17, 2005

Time Travel Theorists are Dumb

According to this article from the BBC, You can go into the past, but only if it's "Complimentary" to what happened. If we were playing "Bullshit" right now, this would be the time to yell out "BS."

If anything would visit the past, the past would change; at the very least, on a matter-location level. In order to teleport (which is the basis of time travel), you must move particles away from the destination location or move the particles around, change the density of the atoms, and change the atoms themselves to other atoms (Alchemy - turning one element into another), and bond to precisely the right atoms. The latter is practically impossible. Even if you teleported an object into a vacuum in some other time, it would change the density of the universe. Thus, time travel is impossible.

Now for a loophole that would make this theory correct.
We'd have to make reservations now.

Don't laugh. I'm not kidding.

In order to travel to the past, there would have to be some sort of anomaly that would bring something from the future to the past. Thus, the person from the future would be traveling to their past. You see, if there's a sudden creation of matter in the present, and it happens to resemble the “time traveler” in every possible way, then it is technically time travel. Then, the addition of matter is explained in the present, so it works.



But this is all based on a theory, so it's unlikely that it's true.

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