Time travel thought

I remember the John Titor stories. I read through many of them. I never believed 1 of them though. In one of the stories, apparently the USA was going to go through a major civil war (I think in 2003 or thereabouts) - once that didnt come true, it was difficult to take anything he said seriously.
 
silversurfer said:
Groundhog day is better :p
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Isnt that about love and romance?
I hate romantic comedies with a passion. Though I do love Sci Fi, which Groundhog Day certainly isnt.

I saw Primer and the way it is laid out is difficult to understand, but the jist of it is that 2 guys accidentally build a time machine that allows them to be sent back in time, on numerous occassions.

I think they could've taken a little more time (perhaps added 5 minutes to the runtime of the movie), to explain what was happening in simple terms, as most of the movie seems to be played out as a conversation between 2 men.

Its OK, but not great, as it assumes that the audience will undestand everything that is going on, first time around, without the need for simple explanations.

A great film with a take on time travel that I saw a while back was Frequency. Top notch. And it assumes that time is linear and that anything that happens in the past, will reflect on future events, eg. in the future if I have 1 bad leg due to a previous accident, in the past, events can be changed to prevent the accident from happening, resulting in me having 2 good legs in the future. Great stuff.

The Terminator movies were also great.
Many Stargate SG1 episodes also involve time travel, which I enjoyed.
And who can forget the Back to the Future movies, which in my opinion, were the most mainstream time travel movies made, to date.
 
Energize said:
It would if it weren't for quantum events like the decay of radiation which are truly random.
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The idea that something is truly random isn't logically possible surely? We just can't model the apparently "random" behaviour. Or thats what I would have thought.
 
Antar Bolaeisk said:
Or possibly the original timeline from which they left is maintained and upon going back in time they then took a different trouser leg of time.
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Yeh like Back to the Future, maybe the original time line exists, but when you go back and change something you create another paradoxical time line so that when you go back to the future it is different.
 
paradigm said:
Basically the way I see it, is that anyone destined to time travel already has, they have already "interfered" with the past, and our present is the result of that intereference.

So in summary, it makes no odds if you were to go back in time, as you will have already done it.
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Exactly what I always think.
There always the "ramifications" they think about and, you can't do this or you can't do that.
 
ghost101 said:
The idea that something is truly random isn't logically possible surely? We just can't model the apparently "random" behaviour. Or thats what I would have thought.
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As far as anyone knows it's random, even controlling every possible variable down to the smallest particle you cannot predict what will happen, only probabilities. Without quantum randomness you would also have to accept that there is no free will and every event is pre-determined.
 
I dunno, according to our dining room clock my family live in the past, has not changed the outcome of the present though when I leav the room that is in the past!

Just remember, same matter can't occupy the same space!
 
int said:
Brilliant little indie film, really enjoyed it. Also shows some good points on the theories of time travel, for instance "you can't go back in time past the time that the machine was turned on".
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Yeah, I found it had a more inventive view of time travel than the usual Hollywood movies.

I also liked the human "copies" of the main characters that had been created by their meddling which they then had to destroy.
 
There is nothing random... people just don't like to accept that everything is predetermined... if you could account for every state of every atom in existance you could predict the future... if you could run the simulation faster than time is current going at.

Things only appear random because of the huge scope of the universe.

And the earlier poster is also correct on time travel... if you go back to a previous frame of reference the "time line" would split off at this point, you and the you at that point in time are 2 entirely different entities and no paradox issues would exist as such.
 
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