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Guy,
I hear what you're saying but as you may know, I do believe in ghosts and other paranormal things. However, I don't believe in time travel. We live in this realm but I do believe there is no concept of time on or in other realms. But, to answer your question about would I want to know when I'm going to die? Hell no. I want to see this movie now!
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SpitFire70
on July 20, 2010 at 4:05 PM
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Re Guy Regarding time travel, I knew of relativity's effects on spacers but
Naut,
Like most people, I knew that one ages more slowly at unimaginably hyper-speed, but what I was addressing is the idea that in the future, we may be able to go back and forth temporally, into both the past and the future, as we now do with land travel, say in a train or a subway. If one could approach the speed of light, it would certainly be a one-way ticket, because anyone and everything that we knew upon departure, would be history, if return was possible given a subjective lifespan. Hell, I have already perfected a working model of a time machine. It still needs a bit more tinkering however. Right now, I can only make it travel forward, and at regular speed, but one of these days, I'm going to astound the world! Just you wait!
Guy
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northsage_45
on July 20, 2010 at 10:44 AM
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Guy
Like you, I am a confirmed skeptic about religious 'revelations' as well as the rest of the mumbo jumbo out there, including Unidentified Flying Objects - okay, so they're unidentified flying objects, big deal.
But 'time travel' of sorts into the future is absolutely possible! The astronauts who went up and came down ended up aging a bit more slowly in the process then we on the ground did! It's an inevitable consequence of Relativity, which is not merely a 'theory.'
You can extend that (only 'technical' considerations standing in the way): if you zip into space at even greater speeds for a few years, say at 1/2 c, (at that rate, it would take you about 16 minutes to the Sun, but you want to avoid our old star, lol), and at some point you'd turn around and come back, you'd find that you were 'younger' than your children; and if you extend it far enough, you'd come back into a 'future' that you would hardly recognize if at all...
But all this is really old hat. And I know that Hawking and others are also talking about wormholes and such, but we won't go there...
And I haven't seen the movie, so I'll withold judgment...
posted by
Nautikos
on July 20, 2010 at 7:26 AM
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CAN I GET ON MY SOAP BOX NOW FOR A BIT......
NO...OK.......
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Kabu
on July 19, 2010 at 5:20 PM
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I have to agree
I personally think time travel is an impossibility, maybe if you consider traveling at the speed of light to a destination and back again "time travel" well, then possible - but the same amount of time has passed, whether we travel at 50 mph or 100 lyph.. I liked the movie and recommend it, if only for the awesome affects and the thoughts that it does provoke :)
l8r
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SomeoneElse
on July 19, 2010 at 3:43 PM
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I see what you mean Guy
Hi Guy - just read your comment on my latest blog and subsequently read yours (and I AM a girl - life begins at 40 don't you kow? hehe). I shall certainly try and hire the film 'Knowing' as I think I'll like it too (if it's available in the UK that is). Have you seen the film Sliding doors? This one really made me think - how many times (even in a day) could a small thing we do completely change what happens to us in the future. If you haven't seen it, it's nothing to do with predestined stuff - quite the opposite! Look forward to more of your blogs
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BrionyS
on July 19, 2010 at 11:28 AM
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