MIT + Time Travel + Convetion

[KenWittlief]

since the universe is expanding and our solar system is hurtling through space at thousands of miles per hour

wouldnt a time traveller also need a star ship? you send yourself even one hour into the future, and the earth will no longer be at this location when you pop back in

someone travelling from hundreds or thousands of years in the future would need to travel light years to get back to where we are now, relative to the center of the universe.

still the idea of only having one time travel convention is a little presumptuous - why not have one every 100 years?

I can see people in the future saying "you wanna goto that 2005 convention?"

"nah, the weather was miserable, besides theres nothing to do in Boston in 2005 - lets goto the 2805 one next"

[Kyle]

Originally Posted by KenWittlief

since the universe is expanding and our solar system is hurtling through space at thousands of miles per hour

wouldnt a time traveller also need a star ship? you send yourself even one hour into the future, and the earth will no longer be at this location when you pop back in

someone travelling from hundreds or thousands of years in the future would need to travel light years to get back to where we are now, relative to the center of the universe.

still the idea of only having one time travel convention is a little presumptuous - why not have one every 100 years?

I can see people in the future saying "you wanna goto that 2005 convention?"

"nah, the weather was miserable, besides theres nothing to do in Boston in 2005 - lets goto the 2805 one next"

Who says time is relative to position? Everyone knows a good time machine would compensate for that kind of thing anyway.

[Jay Trzaskos]

Originally Posted by Eugenia Gabrielov

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

Me too. I didn't know you got your time machine working yet. Wait, whenever you get it working and come back to brag about it. I have gone and confused myself again. Why does this happen every time? Oh well.

See you all there.
JT
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[KenWittlief]

Originally Posted by Kyle

Who says time is relative to position? Everyone knows a good time machine would compensate for that kind of thing anyway.

Time is the fourth dimension. If you want to meet me you have to specify X,Y,Z coordinates plus time coordinates. Im not going to stand on the corner of 5th and Main for eternity waiting for you.

since the earth is travelling through space at an incredible speed, if you travel through time and somehow manage to stay attached to the earth, isnt there a time-travel-rate at which you would be travelling faster than light?

Einstein would be very upset with you! c is the limit. Its not just a good idea, its the law!

If you could somehow attach yourself to the earth, then wouldnt you need to exist in all the times between now and the time you were heading to?

If I travel from today back to last year, wouldnt an observer in normal time perceive me as a frozen statue, sitting in my time machine, in the same location, from last year until now?

[Eugenia Gabrielov]

A good time machine, as mentioned above, will be invented in the future that will over come that distance, likely by antimatter travel.

Remember, the world was flat til Galileo said it wasn't.

With c, space is the limit!

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by Emily Pease

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

It turns out I can't do math in my head.

[Jay Trzaskos]

Sorry to bring back an old, long forgotten, thread. But, did anyone watch SNL this past saturday (8-06-05)? They talked about the Time travel Convention during "Weekend Update." Just wondering if anyone else caught this?

JT

[Yan Wang]

No, what did they say?

[Andy Baker]

Originally Posted by Yan Wang

No, what did they say?

From what I recall, they said:

(paraphrasing)

"This either means that time travel is not possible, or people from the future already knew that this convention sucked."

It was funny, imo.

Andy B.