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- From: sichase@csa1.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE)
- Newsgroups: alt.sci.physics.new-theories
- Subject: Re: Time Travel (a different perspective):
- Message-ID: <19NOV199213065883@csa1.lbl.gov>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 21:06:00 GMT
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- In article <2241@sousa.tay.dec.com>, perkins@tallis.enet.dec.com writes...
- >
- >Time Travel (from a different perspective)
- >
- >In reading all of the articles posted so far concerning time travel there
- >has never been a definition of what is time travel. So I will start of by
- >posing the two possible alternatives as to what is time travel.
- >
- >So probably we should then add to the definition of time travel the clause
- >that the time traveler's physical body does not age at the same rate of
- >traveling in time.
- >
- >Any thoughts, comments, rejecting of this "definition" of time travel?
-
- Only this - we already know how to travel forward in time. You just
- get in a rocket ship and take a little vacation at near the speed of light.
- Let the trip take a year, from your point of view. Assuming that you were
- going fast enough, when you return, you find that everyone you knew is
- long dead. Decades have passed on Earth.
-
- The big problem with this method of time travel is that there is no
- return ticket.
-
- -Scott
- --------------------
- Scott I. Chase "It is not a simple life to be a single cell,
- SICHASE@CSA2.LBL.GOV although I have no right to say so, having
- been a single cell so long ago myself that I
- have no memory at all of that stage of my
- life." - Lewis Thomas
-