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if you got a hold of a time machine, what would you do?
AtomSmasher:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on December 18, 2011, 01:12:06 am ---Lame jokes aside my whole paragraph apparently went completely over your head.
You traveled back through a perception of time, not through time. Timezones and international date lines have nothing to do with actual time. Those constructs are put in place to measure the amount of sunlight left on a perticular location in a given day, not the passage of time.
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Or perhaps his comment went over your head and he was actually talking about time dilation where time slows down the faster you travel. If you're on the jet, then time elapsed slower for you then it did for people on the ground, so you would be slightly behind them in time when you landed :) Granted our best clocks could not detect the amount of time changed from that short flight, but it doesn't negate the fact that time travel did happen.
Quite17:
Time machine?
Simply thought to make some money,
and have some good travels——place change, time change
.
Malenko:
I time travel all the time, but its always forward at the same pace.
Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: AtomSmasher on December 18, 2011, 03:15:43 am ---
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on December 18, 2011, 01:12:06 am ---Lame jokes aside my whole paragraph apparently went completely over your head.
You traveled back through a perception of time, not through time. Timezones and international date lines have nothing to do with actual time. Those constructs are put in place to measure the amount of sunlight left on a perticular location in a given day, not the passage of time.
--- End quote ---
Or perhaps his comment went over your head and he was actually talking about time dilation where time slows down the faster you travel. If you're on the jet, then time elapsed slower for you then it did for people on the ground, so you would be slightly behind them in time when you landed :) Granted our best clocks could not detect the amount of time changed from that short flight, but it doesn't negate the fact that time travel did happen.
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That's still not really time travel though, that's just realitivity at work. You aren't traveling forwards in time, rather your time is slower than the ground's time. Forward time-traveling doesn't really count because firstly we are all doing it right now and secondly it's generally just space travel. I mean technically I suppose it is, but that's kind of lame.
It's the backwards part that's confusing and probably impossible to do (at least on the human level).
knave:
I was thinking last night that it would be pretty entertaining to travel back as an observer and witness key points in history to see what really happened. No need to interfere...just the knowledge would be pretty cool. I think it would be particularly interesting to see the reality of some of the biblical events.
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