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Re: Time Travel Is Not Possible

Message-ID <586FD042.6EAB@ix.netcom.com> (permalink)
Date 2017-01-06 09:13 -0800
From The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written, sci.physics, sci.physics.relativity, alt.astronomy, sci.math
Subject Re: Time Travel Is Not Possible
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Sylvia Else wrote:
> 
> On 6/01/2017 12:50 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
> > 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 ....
> >
> 
> Again, you persist in assuming you preferred model of how time travel
> works, and refuse to accept that if time travel is possible, it may
> operate in a different way.
> 
> Sylvia.


You cannot invoke unproven 'other universes' just so you can come up with ad hoc theories to everything unanswered.

That is what con artist so...

are you a con artist?

You have a red car in one universe and a black car in the other universe, is that right????

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Time Travel Is Not Possible The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-12-30 11:19 -0800
  Re: Time Travel Is Not Possible The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-12-30 13:13 -0800
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  Re: Time Travel Is Not Possible Don Kuenz <g@crcomp.net> - 2016-12-30 21:30 +0000
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      Re: Time Travel Is Not Possible The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-12-30 20:25 -0800
        Re: Time Travel Is Not Possible The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-12-30 20:28 -0800
  Re: Time Travel Is Not Possible Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-12-31 13:03 +1100
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      Re: How to travel in time William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> - 2017-01-01 20:48 -0800
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          Re: How to travel in time Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2017-01-02 13:02 -0800
    Re: Time Travel Is Not Possible The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-12-30 20:21 -0800
      Re: Time Travel Is Not Possible Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-12-31 15:32 +1100
        Re: Time Travel Is Not Possible The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-12-30 23:05 -0800
          Re: Time Travel Is Not Possible Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-12-31 19:07 +1100
            Re: Time Travel Is Not Possible The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-12-31 10:51 -0800
              Re: Time Travel Is Not Possible Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-01-01 11:44 +1100
                Re: Time Travel Is Not Possible The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-12-31 17:26 -0800
                Re: Time Travel Is Not Possible Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-01-01 13:10 +1100
                Re: Time Travel Is Not Possible Yuri Kretin <invlaid@invalid.com> - 2017-01-01 11:18 -0600
                Re: Time Travel Is Not Possible The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-01-01 16:48 -0800
                Re: Time Travel Is Not Possible Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-01-02 12:03 +1100
                Re: Time Travel Is Not Possible The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-01-01 21:07 -0800
                Re: Time Travel Is Not Possible Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-01-02 16:25 +1100
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                Re: Time Travel Is Not Possible Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-01-03 14:54 +1100
                Re: Time Travel Is Not Possible The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-01-03 21:18 -0800
                Re: Time Travel Is Not Possible Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-01-04 16:45 +1100
                Re: Time Travel Is Not Possible The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-01-03 21:53 -0800
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                Re: Time Travel Is Not Possible Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-01-06 13:29 +1100
                Re: Time Travel Is Not Possible The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-01-06 09:13 -0800
                Re: Time Travel Is Not Possible Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-01-07 11:57 +1100
                Re: Time Travel Is Not Possible Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-01-10 11:34 +1100
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                Re: Time Travel Is Not Possible Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-01-11 22:40 +1100
                Re: Time Travel Is Not Possible Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> - 2017-01-06 00:37 -0800
                Re: Time Travel Is Not Possible The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-01-06 09:06 -0800
                Re: Time Travel Is Not Possible Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2017-01-06 09:18 -0700
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          Re: Time Travel Is Not Possible The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-01-01 16:50 -0800
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    Re: Time Travel Is Not Possible The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-01-01 16:56 -0800
      Re: Time Travel Is Not Possible Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-01-02 12:14 +1100
        Re: Time Travel Is Not Possible The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-01-10 09:29 -0800
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                Re: Time Travel Is Not Possible The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-01-14 10:16 -0800
                Re: Time Travel Is Not Possible Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-01-14 21:28 +0000
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