And people told me sudoku was a time-waster.999_Springs wrote:I travelled backwards in time last night. I was doing this sudoku puzzle so fast that by the time I'd finished it was 49 minutes and 41 seconds earlier than when I'd started. Woot.
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Well, that's exactly what he meant, except England (+ others or something) went back this Sunday.DemonzLunchBreak wrote:Negative time sudoku will be possible (kind of) for Americans in just a couple days. Not sure how other countries do DST...
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I don't think anyone's answered this, so I'm just going to say that this time is in fact 3.3x10^-44 seconds (the time taken for light to travel a planck length). As we know it, the speed of time an object undergoes is in relation to its mass and speed, which is why time goes amazing slow as you get ripped to shreds in a black hole. However, if you were to go faster than light, you may have a chance of making time appear to go backwards... At this point I'm merely hypothesizing, since going faster than the speed of light would be silly. At least, as far as modern physics states.squibbles wrote:Despite that, though, I have to say, one thing I've thought about in regard to time travel, is whether time occurs at a speed; that is to say, there is a definable gap between one instance of time and another, even if it is infintismally small. I figured that if so, then traveling forward through time would merely be a case of moving at a speed greater that "the speed of time". It's a similar concept to that of the lightspeed/time travel one (which I admit, is retarded. Light and time are totally unrelated. (Also, on that note, why is lightspeed seen as a speed barrier? That is also retarded.)), however what it does mean is that travelling backwards through time would be impossible. Or at least extremely complicated. I've not put so much though into it to discern between the two.
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So, what do you guys think? (Please don't steal my idea. I don't get many of them.)
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Merlin lived backwards in time. That's how he could know the future. I'll bet someone's already done a sci-fi take on the concept (it sounds like you're aiming for that genre more than fantasy) but I'm not familiar with any so you might have had an original idea.Aidiera wrote:Back on topic, I had this idea. (I might even write a short story about it.) If you were to travel backwards in your own timeline (i.e. your past, starting when you were born), then you'd be both in the present and in the past. This closed loop is where changes happen. When you move forward, back to the present, you'd be right where you left off, and the only thing that changes is your memories. I assume this would also work with going into the future, but I'm not sure about the memories part there.
So, what do you guys think? (Please don't steal my idea. I don't get many of them.)
The core concept isn't new, though. Merlin, Benjamin Button, people (jokingly) said Mozart did this. Just off the top of my head.
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The problem with the into the future thing is that your memories affect your future, so by being in the future you are changing it (how would it work, like a Back to the Future alternate timeline, or a reality that ceases to exist once you exit it?) It could be a closed loop if you take a rigid fatalistic approach, but that could lead to some problems in the past (unless you saw yourself as an old person, it wouldn't happen, right?)Aidiera wrote:Back on topic, I had this idea. (I might even write a short story about it.) If you were to travel backwards in your own timeline (i.e. your past, starting when you were born), then you'd be both in the present and in the past. This closed loop is where changes happen. When you move forward, back to the present, you'd be right where you left off, and the only thing that changes is your memories. I assume this would also work with going into the future, but I'm not sure about the memories part there.
So, what do you guys think? (Please don't steal my idea. I don't get many of them.)
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Mozart totally did this.Duchess of Awesome wrote:Merlin lived backwards in time. That's how he could know the future. I'll bet someone's already done a sci-fi take on the concept (it sounds like you're aiming for that genre more than fantasy) but I'm not familiar with any so you might have had an original idea.Aidiera wrote:Back on topic, I had this idea. (I might even write a short story about it.) If you were to travel backwards in your own timeline (i.e. your past, starting when you were born), then you'd be both in the present and in the past. This closed loop is where changes happen. When you move forward, back to the present, you'd be right where you left off, and the only thing that changes is your memories. I assume this would also work with going into the future, but I'm not sure about the memories part there.
So, what do you guys think? (Please don't steal my idea. I don't get many of them.)
The core concept isn't new, though. Merlin, Benjamin Button, people (jokingly) said Mozart did this. Just off the top of my head.
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You'd have no way of getting back to your own time. People who were interested in the end of the world would get there and not be able to get home...
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If time travel was possible, and someone in the future were to utilize a device that allowed them to do just that, would that mean in this circumstance that time travel has already happened, just not yet?
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