Re: TimeTravel

Michael Lorrey (retroman@together.net)
Wed, 21 Oct 1998 13:43:04 -0400

Dan Fabulich wrote:

> Lady D'Los wrote:
> >Two simple questions which I feel will tickle your brain cells...
> >Timetravel, a Transhuman possability, or just a daydream? Would it be a
> >good thing, or disastrous?
>
> Into the future? Absolutely. Backwards? Almost certainly not.
>
> Consider: if we were develop backwards time travel at some point in the
> future, then someone could have gone back in time to some point before
> today. If time travel will be discovered, then it has already happened.
>
> Thus, due to the very nature of time travel, if it hasn't happened already,
> we can safely assume that it never will.

Yet you do not know if time travel will be acheived in the future or not.

>
>
> -Dan
>
> "Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive unceasingly."
> -- The last words of Buddhadasa Bhikkhu