What?

Que?

Idiot.

Back to topic, If I had one, I'd destroy it.

why?

Because it causes a hell of trouble in the end.
You're an idiot. :P
You've certainly turned cynical.

Luciene, or I?

You're turning cynical. Or something like it. Or your impatience has gotten even worse.

wrote:Back to topic, If I had one, I'd destroy it.

Ban Time Travel Now!

:P

What would be the point of you having it in the first place?

If I had one, I wouldn't interfere with anything, I'd just watch...

FuzzyLobster wrote:Ban Time Travel Now!

:P

What would be the point of you having it in the first place?

If I had one, I wouldn't interfere with anything, I'd just watch...

The act of observing affects what is being observed.


Nero, Dansariki, play nice, m'kay?

What if you made yourself invisible/unable to be detected in any way and didn't watch yourself or anyone you actually knew?

Sentynel wrote:Nero, Dansariki, play nice, m'kay?

I am. I'm just making a mere observation...don't you agree admin Sentynel?

I'd just watch the show. Changing the past only screws up the present. Watch how stupid I was in my past...
Besides, all those shows that have the character somehow transported back time, the character is invisible to the surrondings. Almost like a flashback, like in House.
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Luciene wrote:What if you made yourself invisible/unable to be detected in any way and didn't watch yourself or anyone you actually knew?

Making yourself completely undetectable is even less likely than time travel. Probably completely impossible.

I'd perfer to think incredibly improbable.
THink about it: undetectable by humans ain't so hard, by everything is.
That's impossible.

Dansariki wrote:...undetectable by humans ain't so hard, by everything is.
That's impossible.

No it isn't!
Not unless your a ninja! :P

Dansariki wrote:I'd perfer to think incredibly improbable.
THink about it: undetectable by humans ain't so hard, by everything is.
That's impossible.

To become completely undetectable is impossible. Even by humans. If something can be detected by anything, we can do it. It may be ridiculously difficult, but we can do it. It might require dragging out an electron microscope, but it's possible. Wouldn't actually happen, but it's possible, which is the key bit.

So I think it's the consensus that a time machine is a bad thing?

There are various theories about time machines that would prevent them from doing any damage. Stuff like whatever you do with a time machine is what happened anyway and that's how it happens (although that has somewhat worrying effects on causality and free will), or time machines are actually locked from going back any further than when they were first built.

Hmm...interesting...so say we officially created a time machine ten minutes ago. Does that mean we can only go back in time throughout that time interval of ten minutes?

The example given where I saw that theory was a very hypothetical theory that the LHC at CERN could in fact be a time machine of sorts, and thus legions of time travellers would pop out of existence when it's turned on.

But if they were the ones time traveling, wouldn't they know the rules?

They wouldn't want to screw anything up, or they might not be born later.

Can't be that much of a hypothetical danger.