building a time machine

I suppose the hardest part would be to build it out of parts that are available in the time era that you plan on visiting in case it breaks down.

Man that would suck to have something break and then you're stuck there because the parts are not available.

 

The hardest part would be getting over the fact that it would never work because time doesn't actually exist

 

Ill scratch you off the rideshare list then

 

Question - If one went forward in time and killed themselves, would they then have to stay in the future, because if they went back they might not exist.

Yet them in the past existed before them in the future was killed, so it wouldn't make sense that they would be dead if they went back. And at what point would they die, during the time warp back to the past?

 

step into my time machine..

 

parallels to some extent with space travel...

 

*adds a machinist to maiden voyage passenger list for parts fabrication

 

Farts in a bottle, no wait that's time in a bottle, and farts are from bottled up gas, over time. Now I got it.

 

The hardest thing would be when you go into the future and you have the crappiest time machine out of all the newfangled ones and feel sad

 

I does suck not being able to get the parts you need for your time machine, I know because I built a time machine out of an old DeLorean in my garage, and now I can't get any more of the "special" materials I need to fix my flux capacitor, from the Libyans. :mickey:

 

Possible.

Time exists as some sort of strange continuum that also doesn't exist.....

So you need to coil it back on itself, or draw new lines between parts.

But if you did that, you'd have more like a time drill, and other people could follow, or might get sucked in, and then bad things would happen. And dinosaurs might walk out, if you left a hole.

How would you physically BUILD a hole into something that's not physical?

Maybe you could create a parallel time that goes faster, like a passing lane in time? but then going either forwards or backwards you'd age very fast, and would be that much older when you got there, having only missed that part of your life, not "skipped"....

I'm down.

 

Time and consciousness are intertwined. Because it's a completely subjective thing. I don't know...reality seems more dreamlike than anything.

Because it's always the future for you. Even if you traveled to a so-called "past," it would occur at a later time than "now," so there would be no way of telling whether it was the actual past or "a future."

The mind is far more powerful than people realize. We're trying to get to the past in small ways...but at some point you have to become convinced that you're in the past, and is it even possible to believe that? It might not be fathomable. If you could travel to the past, the shock might immediately kill you or you might go insane and not bother with returning.

Who knows, maybe time travelers did go to the past (in the future,) but they always can't leave the past because it's too utterly fascinating. So they stopped traveling back in time because no one ever came back from the past.

 

Actually, I'd like to go back in time, say about 3 or 4 thousand years. Maybe more than that.

 

the hardest part is when you go forward in time and realise that everything that happened in the movie Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure was true

dude

 

I'm heading back too...I figure there'd be a way to get rich or at least have everyone think I'm a genius

going to the future I would seem like a retard to them

or maybe it'd be good to go to the future and then return to now with information that could change the future

 

The problem with time travel along the lines of making predictions is one cannot accurately calculate the backlash from making uncanny predictions and marking oneself as having special "powers". Think what sleight of hand might have precipitated if performed in Salem Massachusetts in the 1600's.

 

I'll be bringing a few guns with me

 

You could always send a note to yourself in the future to remember to bring the spare wonky part in question.

 

I build one in the 1400's but it only went forward in time and now I'm stuck here.

 

Why are you stuck here? Because of 2012?