Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 15:13:40 -0600 Message-ID: <5866CE01.2D63@ix.netcom.com> Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 13:13:37 -0800 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity,alt.astronomy Subject: Re: Time Travel Is Not Possible References: <5866B352.6F63@ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 30 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.219.229.47 X-Trace: sv3-K21nU1a8vY/RhxyUmjPhqnUI4myFTSXjZTNOGdnueqHoEd7b6bkEDmsfBK61rsbioLkIrQofNOc19Is!436qODxnEOoZIi3/JLqIUfsNCMrB0EbHXwTCp566ckQ2cjEwEC9BAKNcZtH7ecYCkB3Yld/JcusK!YkofV0f8uMk= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1914 Xref: csiph.com rec.arts.sf.written:461219 sci.physics:610910 sci.physics.relativity:403523 alt.astronomy:288442 HGW wrote: > > On 31/12/16 06:19, The Starmaker wrote: > > lets say > > you travel back in time > > in a time machine and your > > time machine lands on your > > grandfather and kills him... > > Ask yourself this question,"When I am dead, what is the date?" > > You are no longer traveling up the time axis...and so every date has > equal possibility. > > > Time Travel Is Not Possible. > > True...but your above argument does not preclude the possibility of > seeing into the past without the ability to change it. > > > Any answers you give saying time travel is possible would be...absurd answers. > > -- just because the time machine kills the grandfather doesn't mean he is dead... his spirit can leave the body and continue.. "dead" is a earthling conception of time.