No Time Travel, Sorry

MOBE2001 writes "The bad news is that time does not change. Spatial velocity is given as dx/dt. Velocity in time(dt/dt) is nonsensical. As simple as that. In other words, no time travel to the past or the future, no motion in space-time, no wormholes and no hanky-panky with your great, great grandmother. There is only the changing present, aka the NOW. The good news is that distance is an illusion and we'll be able to travel instantly from anywhere to anywhere."

Comments

Of course time travel is possible!

[SeanTobin]

How else could people post articles in The Mysterious Future?

Re:Of course time travel is possible!

[Elad Alon]

I didn't want to say I'll have told you so...

Or, as Ford Prefect put it...

[Jim in Buffalo]

As Ford Prefect put it, "Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so."

I must complain

[elcheesmo]

That's it. I'm going to write a letter of complaint to Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd to express my disgust at being deceived for the past 20 years.

All you need for time travel is...

[WCMI92]

A Deloreon, a flux capacitor, 1.21 gigawatts of power, and enough road to get up to 88 miles per hour.

I desperately want to mod the story...

[precize]

-1, Nutjob

Actually, ...

[JoeShmoe950]

I'm from the year 3042. We have found that time travel is real, and would have discovered the time machine in 2048, but scientists were detered by this article.
Dan Church is Wicked Ill

Re:Drinking to much funny-juice

[lucabrasi999]

Not really. Now it's now, and that's all that is. You remember yesterday, but that is a memory occuring now. The past doesn't physically exist. Nor does the future. The only real (i.e. existing physically) part of our time perception is now.

Dark Helmet: What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen in the movie?
Colonel Sandurz: Now. You're looking at now sir. Everything that happens now, is happening now.
Dark Helmet: What happened to then?
Colonel Sandurz: We passed then.
Dark Helmet: When?
Colonel Sandurz: Just now. We're at now, now.
Dark Helmet: Go back to then!
Colonel Sandurz: When?
Dark Helmet: Now.
Colonel Sandurz: Now?
Dark Helmet: Now!
Colonel Sandurz: I can't.
Dark Helmet: Why?
Colonel Sandurz: We missed it.
Dark Helmet: When?
Colonel Sandurz: Just now.
Dark Helmet: When will then be now?
Colonel Sandurz: Soon.

Re:Method of Travel?

[smbarbour]

You forgot, "Slingshot the starship around the sun."

That works well when aliens try to talk to whales.

Re:Drinking to much funny-juice

[nelsonal]

I picked a hell of a discussion to stop taking acid.

Re:Idiotic

[lbrandy]

This reminds me of the great crackpot index.

This dude's score is off the charts. I highlighted some of the good ones:

        1 point for every statement that is widely agreed on to be false.

        2 points for every statement that is clearly vacuous.

        3 points for every statement that is logically inconsistent.

      10 points for each favorable comparison of yourself to Einstein, or claim that special or general relativity are fundamentally misguided (without good evidence).

      10 points for claiming that your work is on the cutting edge of a "paradigm shift".

      30 points for suggesting that a famous figure secretly disbelieved in a theory which he or she publicly supported. (E.g., that Feynman was a closet opponent of special relativity, as deduced by reading between the lines in his freshman physics textbooks.)

      30 points for suggesting that Einstein, in his later years, was groping his way towards the ideas you now advocate.

      40 points for claiming that the "scientific establishment" is engaged in a "conspiracy" to prevent your work from gaining its well-deserved fame, or suchlike.

      40 points for claiming that when your theory is finally appreciated, present-day science will be seen for the sham it truly is. (30 more points for fantasizing about show trials in which scientists who mocked your theories will be forced to recant.)

Re:Drinking to much funny-juice

[DarkHelmet]

Stop quoting me, bastard!

When I want to go forward or backward in Time...

[msauve]

I just flip the page. Same with Newsweek.