> > Seems like I remember a discussion about time travel and the possibilities of it ever happening.
> > I didn't get into the discussion, so here is my humble opinion:
> > I don't think its likely, but if it ever became possible it would only be travel to the past. The past is real. It happened. The future is not real. It hasn't happened. If it ever does happen it quickly becomes the past. It would have to be easier to travel to the past. I think I confused myself.
> > Howard
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> I recently read a series of stories by Frederick Pohl called "The Time Patrol." In it there is an entire network of "Time Guardians" who work througout the different eras of time to protect the existence of the established timeline and the existence of the "superhumans" of the far future who set up the whole organization.
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> I think it can be argued that the future is real. You say it hasn't happened. I say, it hasn't happened *yet*.
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> I would think it would be easier to travel into the future. Travelling into the past would be a lot more dangerous, because you would be running the constant risk of causing something in the past that would ultimately wipe out "the present" as you know it. Going into the future *from* the past, you probably wouldn't think of it that way. (Although other time travellers from "upwards" of the point in the future that you are visiting might have strong feelings about your meddling with THEIR past!)
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> Gri"I know the future. Well, some of it."shny

Here a question about time travel.

It is a law of reality that matter and energy can't be created or destroyed, only changed. Now if I were to jump five miuntes into the future the matter and energy that makes up me would cease to exist for five minutet, then suddenly come back. In other words when I leave I, for all intensive purposes, destroy the energy and matter. Then I create it five minutes later. This is impossible.

I think that if time travel does happen, when you go to either the past or the future you will displace an amount of matter and energy equal to yourself. If you go to the future, taking your matter and energy, the matter and energy of your time machine, and the matter and energy of anything you take with you then an equal amout of matter and energy will come back from the future. Now this gets danerous, you could inadvertantly send a future disease home when you travel.

I also had an idea for a unique short story. A person creates time travel, and to test it goes back to see the Crucifixtion of Christ. He didn't account for the need to displace matter and energy. He is also misses the Crucifixtion, by three days. He finds himself in a totaly dark room, the door blocked by a rock. He uses telekinetic powers that mankind has developed by his time to escape. That is when he meets the women, and relises what he has done. He has sent the body of Christ to the future, and just created the events that lead to the Gospel stories of the ressurection of Christ.

Well, I hope the story idea doesn't offend any one, I haven't even decided how it ends yet. (wether he goes back and has to live his life with the question of wether his faith was been a lie of his own creation or wether he remains in the past, uses the telepathic and telekinetic powers his advanced human nature grants him to full fill the actions the Gospels accord to the ressurected Christ.)Perhappes that is a sign of my own questions of faith. I don't know. I try not to disssect my own stories, that seems vain somehow.

This thread seems to have wandered. Oh well.

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