Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!news.glorb.com!peer01.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2016 01:05:03 -0600 Message-ID: <586758A0.1F74@ix.netcom.com> Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 23:05:04 -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> <58673243.3914@ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 48 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.219.229.47 X-Trace: sv3-bLVS7yk9G0f9L0LTVZ0fQTFy+SqQLeOiT34uBDR+nqLoPb8/eqfLAumKvKvA1xQqqOw/QihL3hqKkrZ!rZpHF3N3Dmr3Is2M+dP8LihtyhReq/hx9kwQIuD2PCdm7tgS6NQ1D6xBXJ4RjqyaHWnow1600vT6!DYeCGzoSOIQ= 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: 2631 X-Received-Bytes: 2722 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2468408879 Xref: csiph.com rec.arts.sf.written:461267 sci.physics:611006 sci.physics.relativity:403573 alt.astronomy:288471 Sylvia Else wrote: > > On 31/12/2016 3:21 PM, The Starmaker wrote: > > Sylvia Else wrote: > >> > >> On 31/12/2016 6:19 AM, 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... > >>> > >>> > >>> Time Travel Is Not Possible. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> Any answers you give saying time travel is possible would be...absurd answers. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> i don't want to hear absurd answers like you come back in unproven paralell universes > >>> where your father and grandfather still exist... > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> i don't want to hear it! > >>> > >> > >> Why not? You're effectively saying that the Universe has a particular > >> form, one in which your proof works. That's akin to a circular argument. > >> Maybe the universe does have such a form, and time travel really is > >> impossible, but you have no proof of that. > >> > >> Sylvia. > > > > > > I would say by now somebody in the far future would be here now... > > > > That's a different argument. But maybe the reason no time traveller from > the far future has come here is that there is no far future from which > to come - civilisation wipes itself out - humans become extinct due to > natural disaster, etc. > > Sylvia. Where did you get this idea "civilisation wipes itself out", and "humans become extinct"? a crystal ball??