5 reasons why you can't time travel
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Ever read John titor irc logs? regarding time travel, V/old! but interesting if you havn't read 
The Anomalies Network : John Titor :: IRC Discusion Log
The Anomalies Network : John Titor :: IRC Discusion Log
Job
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Yes but only we can 'measure' it by using our consciousness and our memory of past events. time is entirely how much you chop it up, if your brain was only conscious once every thousand years for a second then 'time' would seriously fly by for you..that is in comparison to our update frequency.
If you had no memory then everything would be frozen a clock would be constantly be showing a different time but you would only ever see it stuck at the last time you scanned it.
If you had no memory then everything would be frozen a clock would be constantly be showing a different time but you would only ever see it stuck at the last time you scanned it.
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Hmm, if you could do it it would be more like playing a film forwards and then backwards. The stuff which you are made of exists in a usable condition due to temporal effects (If you struggle with this point, think of something simple such as the food progressing trough your gut). Therefore "you" - that is this afore mentioned stuff of which you are comprised, can't exist 10 minutes ago in any other form than that in which it existed in 10 minutes ago.
It may well be that we evolve to the point where moving in such a fashion is possible but "time travel" in the sense of getting in a machine and going to a different point in time where you can see yourself is nonsensical since that would violate entropy as we understand it.
Of course we could be wrong and the universe might well not be a closed system, allowing us to create matter and insert it at some predetermined point in time. It seems unlikely though.
If we were advanced enough to have such capabilities I doubt we would be particularly interested in Job's conundrums though - probably be too busy exploring the 23rd dimension or something.
It may well be that we evolve to the point where moving in such a fashion is possible but "time travel" in the sense of getting in a machine and going to a different point in time where you can see yourself is nonsensical since that would violate entropy as we understand it.
Of course we could be wrong and the universe might well not be a closed system, allowing us to create matter and insert it at some predetermined point in time. It seems unlikely though.
If we were advanced enough to have such capabilities I doubt we would be particularly interested in Job's conundrums though - probably be too busy exploring the 23rd dimension or something.
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