MIT + Time Travel + Convetion

[Enterprize]

MIT is holding its first (and only) Time Travel Convention.
Here's the info:

May 7, 2005, 10:00pm EDT (08 May 2005 02:00:00 UTC)
East Campus Courtyard, MIT
42:21:36.025°N, 71:05:16.332°W
(42.360007,-071.087870 in decimal degrees)

Purpose: Preserve the information of this meeting in the event that future time travellers could visit at some time during their travels.

Thoughts on this or time travel in general?

Geek factor -- 7.5

[KenWittlief]

How do they know it will be their only time-travel convention?

I think someone knows more than they are saying!

[Alex Pelan]

Why would you need more than one?

[Andy A.]

Just to clarify, because it took someone else to explain the point to me:

If we record this enough in the history books, then at some point in the future when time travel is possible, they will know that 600 years ago there was a big party held in the hopes that time travelers would show up for it. Naturally, any time traveler couldn't pass up free b33r, so they would set their time machine for May 7, 2005, 10:00pm EDT (08 May 2005 02:00:00 UTC)
East Campus Courtyard, MIT.

If this works, (and why would it not?), then at that precise moment, a Doloren will show up.



-Andy A.

[Enterprize]

There may be some delorians present, but any potential time-hoppers would more likely opt for a more conservative entrance. Coordinates are posted in case the location of MIT is no longer in memory.

[Greg Marra]

Too bad it's not closer, or on a weekend...

[Emily Pease]

Originally Posted by Greg Marra

Too bad it's not closer, or on a weekend...

It's not that far away from Connecticut, and it is on Saturday, May 7th!

[Eugenia Gabrielov]

I'd go, but I already know I'll be there.

[RogerR]

Originally Posted by Greg Marra

Too bad it's not closer, or on a weekend...

hows this for an idea:

along with the temporal and spacial co-ordinates of MIT's party, we start posting the temporal/spatial co-ords of people who'd like to make it, but can't. that way, if a future time traveler has some extra room in his/her time machine, they can pick you up, anytime, anyplace, and take you with them to the convention. it'll be like a time-travelers carpool list.

[Emily Pease]

From the website:

DUE TO MIT POLICE REGULATIONS, NO ATTENDEES WILL BE ADMITTED WHO HAVE NOT ALREADY RSVP'D. SORRY GUYS, THIS ONE IS OUT OF OUR CONTROL.

So if you're coming from the future, make sure you go back far enough to RSVP ahead of time.

Shoot-darn, I really wanted to go but I didn't RSVP. Well, I'll have to go back once I figure out how to time-travel.

[Eugenia Gabrielov]

Well, then everybody will travel back in time in time enough to RSVP. Think about it. Everybody you meet there, could be people from the future who came back the year before their senior year, took a load of college placement exams, and got accepted to MIT. Surely they're smart enough to RSVP.

[Pat McCarthy]

I'm going to make a Segway time machine! That way, if people don't believe I'm from the future, they'll still be impressed by my segway!

[Alex Pelan]

Just occurred to me...if, in the event that someone does time travel back to this convention, won't they immediately change the future, thus destroying their existence?

[Kyle]

Originally Posted by Alex Pelan

Just occurred to me...if, in the event that someone does time travel back to this convention, won't they immediately change the future, thus destroying their existence?

If thats true then we will never know will we.....

[Enterprize]

Originally Posted by Alex Pelan

Just occurred to me...if, in the event that someone does time travel back to this convention, won't they immediately change the future, thus destroying their existence?

In some theories. One way to look at it is that all time travelling events ever to happen have already happened, and thusly the future will already have been written accordingly.

Or we could opt for the BttF thoery in which in our dimension, only a discrete number of timejumpers actually game, and in any scenario with other timejumpers will be played out in an alternate dimension (ala BttF II)