Path: csiph.com!feeder.erje.net!1.us.feeder.erje.net!newspeer1.nac.net!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2017 19:50:09 -0600 Message-ID: <586EF7F2.26DB@ix.netcom.com> Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2017 17:50:42 -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,sci.math Subject: Re: Time Travel Is Not Possible References: <5866B352.6F63@ix.netcom.com> <58673243.3914@ix.netcom.com> <586758A0.1F74@ix.netcom.com> <5867FE37.723@ix.netcom.com> <58685AA8.4AAB@ix.netcom.com> <5869A346.1C8@ix.netcom.com> <5869E028.3FF1@ix.netcom.com> <586A99A4.792E@ix.netcom.com> <586C858B.4A@ix.netcom.com> <586C8DC4.2DF3@ix.netcom.com> <586EA0AD.16BE@ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 73 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.219.229.47 X-Trace: sv3-TQ9m7s3OkNF94I0w7QJl+Qid7FDW6FBzJ8tEpjKF8IgcJmG8fSTz+w+Rv1v2SVHlClyvwbdZrgwwi8z!D6JHnOwFpNBv0IIbM9Hg1R16g2zlv2TogfGWh3+SYEZYf5Sa05ZAAGqo4E/iP8mFWZae7ALW+HeI!LhzthWm02ro= 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: 3857 Xref: csiph.com rec.arts.sf.written:461681 sci.physics:611876 sci.physics.relativity:404215 alt.astronomy:288619 sci.math:359643 Sylvia Else wrote: > > On 6/01/2017 6:38 AM, The Starmaker wrote: > > > > > how about the time traveler goes back a day and buys a lottery ticket > > that pays 500 million dollars, goes back to the future and deposits > > the money, goes back again, plays the same numbers, goes back and > > deposits another 500 million, goes back again, plays the same > > numbers, goes back and deposits another 500 million, > > > > > > i'm having trouble figuring out where is all this money coming > > from... are the serial numbers the same? are the lottery officals > > wondering why are there all these paid checks made out to the same > > person shows paid over billion dollars but only 500 million paid > > out.. > > > > something is wrong with your 'possible time travel senerios'. > > > > Nature doesn't work this way. > > Well, we don't know how it works (if it works) in the context of time > travel. > > In a version of the universe where a time traveller returns to a new > branch of history each time he travels back and forward, he'd find that > he only ever managed to accumulate one payout, because he never returns > to the version of history in which he'd previously deposited a payout. > > He might even find that the winning numbers change in each new future > (butterfly effect), making his lottery tickets worthless. > > Sylvia. What? I'll reiterate... he travels back in time to Dec. 30th 2016 buys a lottery ticket numbers are 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 wins and gets a check for 500 million.. deposits the check.. he goes back in time to Dec. 30th 2016 buys a lottery ticket numbers are 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 wins and gets a check for 500 million.. deposits the check.. he goes back in time to Dec. 30th 2016 buys a lottery ticket numbers are 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 wins and gets a check for 500 million.. deposits the check.. he goes back in time to Dec. 30th 2016 buys a lottery ticket numbers are 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 wins and gets a check for 500 million.. deposits the check.. He's got two billion dollars now in the bank. he goes back in time to Dec. 30th 2016 ....