Thread: Time Travel - should we?
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Old 20-06-2005, 21:06   #52
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Re: Time Travel - should we?
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Originally Posted by danielf
Apparently, some scientists now think that time travel is possible, but you would not be able to do anything to change the future:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4097258.stm
Ahem...

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Originally Posted by TheBlueRaja
Think of time like a switch... If we take your original example of a person discovering that a plane crash was about to happen and tries to prevent it.

Well, the more that person tries to prevent the plane from crashing the more he affects the future time line, in which case the person who came back to prevent the plane crash never came in the first place and thefore the crash happened anyway bacuase he was unable to prevent it.
These scientists dont know squat - TheBlueRaja beat them too it.
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