Thanks for humoring me, Rob!  ;D 


;) ;D

Nobody would be laughing hysterically at my posts. ;D

Nobody would be laughing hysterically at my posts. ;D


You mean, we do...?

Er...ahem! Sorry, yes...we do...!

You mean, we do...?

Er...ahem! Sorry, yes...we do...!



I knew there was a reason to be on this forum ;D

Nobody would be laughing hysterically at my posts. ;D

you could no longer get banned   ;D

you could no longer get banned   ;D



you got that right. ;)

you could no longer get banned   ;D


Heh heh.  ;D

Nobody would be laughing hysterically at my posts. ;D


Or "EWWWWW"-ing or "AHHHHH!!!!!!!"-ing.  ;D

that would totally stink. This is the only place were I can actually have buddies and be ignored at the same time. Darn. ::)

that would totally stink. This is the only place were I can actually have buddies and be ignored at the same time. Darn. ::)


We all get that ignored feeling from time to time.. I just postwhore when no one wants to talk.  :D

We all get that ignored feeling from time to time.. I just postwhore when no one wants to talk.  :D


Glad to see that I'm not the only one. My suspicions were confirmed when on the 'Member ABC thread'. People kept on posting the same person for the letter N. The alphabet cycled at least five times and no one put me down. What am I chopped liver? nnnnooooo, I'm Null AND Void!  ::)

It's alright MY name doesn't start with an N anyway

Glad to see that I'm not the only one. My suspicions were confirmed when on the 'Member ABC thread'. People kept on posting the same person for the letter N. The alphabet cycled at least five times and no one put me down. What am I chopped liver? nnnnooooo, I'm Null AND Void!  ::)

It's alright MY name doesn't start with an N anyway



;D I got mentioned pretty quick. But then, I do four, five, six... ty posts a day.

Glad to see that I'm not the only one. My suspicions were confirmed when on the 'Member ABC thread'. People kept on posting the same person for the letter N. The alphabet cycled at least five times and no one put me down. What am I chopped liver? nnnnooooo, I'm Null AND Void!  ::)

It's alright MY name doesn't start with an N anyway


Shaq, the next time I see an 'N', I will put your member name down.  ;)

As for time travel, there is The Terminator rule, no live things can sent through time or something like that.

If it's not here tommorrow, I would buy a hypno-toad.  ;D

http://www.mytungsten.net/images/forum3k/hypnotoad.jpg

As for time travel, there is The Terminator rule, no live things can sent through time or something like that.


Hmm...


What can Momus teach us with his song "Walter {Wendy} Carlos" about time travel? Let's look:

"But, according to Albert Einstein, when time travel is possible, time travel will only be able to go as far back as when time travel first became possible."

I think live things could go, but I agree with that statement.

"But, according to Albert Einstein, when time travel is possible, time travel will only be able to go as far back as when time travel first became possible."


Does anyone know where I could find the explanation for that ^ on the internet?  It doesn't make sense to me, so I'd like to read the actual proof.

Why would you gain mass?  I could understand resistance increasing as one accelerates, but not mass.

And besides, we all know that to time travel one doesn't need to approach the speed of light.  All you need is 88 mph, a flux capacitor, and 1.21 gigawatts of electricity.  ::)  ;D

According to Stephen Hawking, time travel isn't possible. He states that the faster you travel, the more mass you gain, thus the more energy you need to propel yourself forward. As you approach the speed of light, your mass becomes infinite, thus requiring an infinite amount of energy to propel yourself.


A good quote from Hawking..

"If Time Travel Were Possible, We'd Be Flooded With Tourists From The Future."

That's why I like Einstein's idea.

Why would you gain mass?  I could understand resistance increasing as one accelerates, but not mass.

And besides, we all know that to time travel one doesn't need to approach the speed of light.  All you need is 88 mph, a flux capacitor, and 1.21 gigawatts of electricity.   ::)   ;D


I think Djork is muddling two different ideas up.

What Stephen Hawking is talking about is related to Einsteins Special Relativity (the famous E = mC2).  As you approach the speed of light your mass increases in proportion to your speed.  This is why it is impossible to travel at the speed of light.

I've never heard the Einstein thing on time travel that Apricot mentions but it sort of makes sense to me.  Basically, if I've understood correctly, Einstein is saying that some 'rule' prevents us travelling backwards in time to the point before time travel was invented.  This stops the paradox of someone travelling back in time to tell someone how the method works.  If that was allowed to happen then who invented the method in the first place?

I've never heard the Einstein thing on time travel that Apricot mentions but it sort of makes sense to me.  Basically, if I've understood correctly, Einstein is saying that some 'rule' prevents us travelling backwards in time to the point before time travel was invented.  This stops the paradox of someone travelling back in time to tell someone how the method works.  If that was allowed to happen then who invented the method in the first place?


You got it. If someone went back, they could invent time travel earlier then it should have been, and the earlier, and then earlier, until it had always been accessible, and the whole past would be dramatically altered.

You got it. If someone went back, they could invent time travel earlier then it should have been, and the earlier, and then earlier, until it had always been accessible, and the whole past would be dramatically altered.


Yeah, that definitely spells trouble. In BTTF, it could still work itself out from the Self Preservation Effect. But in the real world, what if the first time machine was completed in 1993, and someone took it back to 1991 and killed the guy before he could make/finish it? Then who invented it to take it back to kill him to begin with? Paradoxville.

Unless every time you time-travel, you're going to an alternate universe. If that theory is true, it's been said that you could go back and kill your grandfather as a baby (sad thing to say, but just the example I heard!), because you'd only be killing your grandpa to be in the alternate, parallel history, your own history is unaffected, since it's in another universe.

I suppose if one of us were to do that, we'd simply arrive back in an alternate 2005 where we didn't exist beforehand.

However, this theory is the hardest to grasp, IMO -- if there are parallel universes out there in space, how do you (or the time machine? or the universe itself) "decide" which world you go to, and how do you "jump" between them? Say, if there already is a pre-existing 2005 where Japan won WWII and I just wanted to check it out for a few hours, how would I ultimately arrive there? ;)

Say, if there already is a pre-existing 2005 where Japan won WWII and I just wanted to check it out for a few hours, how would I ultimately arrive there? ;)


I think you could alter history so the Japanese won, go back to the present, see it {hope your time machine still works and still EXISTS.. mind you, if the Japanese won, would you have had the means or freedom to build the machine?}, come back, correct your mistake so no one notices {even the slightest change could dramatically alter}, and then go back to the normal {hopefully} future.

Too much work, I say.

I'd wind up going crazy! ;D