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Don't foget the grandfather paradox. If you went back in time and killed your grandfather, you wouldn't be born, but then you wouldn't have killed your grandfather, but then you'd be born, etc.

I think time travel is kinda, well,   unfair! If you go into the future and see yourself as a teenager, it seems like you're cheating. Like looking ahead in a book and seeing who the killer is, or peeking at a present you've never seen before. Time travel would ruin all the fun, because we could see ourselves fully grown up. 

Yeah, I've thought about this before and concluded time travel makes absolutely no sense. Talk about a whole lot of paradoxes. Even by going back and "doing nothing" you could block sunlight from hitting a tree. Preventing if from growing that little extra bit. The extra bit that would touch a man and make he turn just in time to see a trap laid out for him. This man was George Washington, now he was killed because you stopped that tree from growing the extra bit.

(Yes I know, crude example, but I'm tired)

technoguyx wrote:

And if time travel were possible, we could probably see people from the future messing everything up right now. 

I guess you're right... so that would mean that either:
1. Time travel is impossible
2. No one from any point in the future has traveled to now
3. You can't tell if someone has time traveled or not

Actually, that makes it completely impossible because if someone invented a time machine and actually used it, then that means they either were or weren't back in time. It couldn't be both, or else the other time before time machines existed wouldn't exist.

I hope that makes sense. Time travel is confusing and hard to explain. 

And if it was look only, that would probably work, but it could mess up your life if you look into the future.

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BWOG wrote:

technoguyx wrote:

And if time travel were possible, we could probably see people from the future messing everything up right now. 

I guess you're right... so that would mean that either:
1. Time travel is impossible
2. No one from any point in the future has traveled to now
3. You can't tell if someone has time traveled or not

could also mean that we ARE the future and only past travel is possible

I don't want it either. They say going at the speed of light would mess up our faces.

MIT had a Time Traveler's convention back in 2005. The idea was that if you threw a big party and told everyone about it, people from the future who can travel through time would see stories about it from the past and decide to go back in time to check it out. But they didn't have any confirmed time traveler's...    But a lot of people dressed up weird and had fun!    (Who knows, maybe some of them were Time travelers, but couldn't be bothered to answer all those questions...

http://web.mit.edu/adorai/timetraveler/

Anyone see Donnie Darko?
Or that show Time Squad?
If we do have time travel anytime soon, there will be a goverment force to control it (like everything else) or whatever happens was meant to happen and can't be avoided

I wish I could go back in time to third grade....South Park, anyone?

You create the future so aslong as you don't affect the past ur fine!

Paradox wrote:

Ego voluntas interfeci omnis novus

Too bad mods understand Latin too, and I think killing all new people is against our Terms of Use xD    I'd also say you have to fix up your Latin grammar... Shall I fix that up for you ;P ?