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Pumpkinhead wrote: I have a theory that we might be able to change the overall timeline but we will never be able to change our own timeline. If we can move from our own time (today) into another time zone (eg 1066), when we come back our personal clock will have kept running. What we did while in 1066 will already have happened. If we tried to make something, or stop something from happening, we would find that we have no real control.
I'd rather go into the past - especially to check out my ancestry - than go into the future.
I'll be in that.
I'd go back to my ancestor Edward 111 and warn him that one of kitchen maids is going to get pregnant by some peasant and claim one of William's relatives knocked her up and someone called ITK would surface 600 years later and claim to be related to me.
Pumpkinhead
I have a theory that we might be able to change the overall timeline but we will never be able to change our own timeline. If we can move from our own time (today) into another time zone (eg 1066), when we come back our personal clock will have kept running. What we did while in 1066 will already have happened. If we tried to make something, or stop something from happening, we would find that we have no real control.
I'd rather go into the past - especially to check out my ancestry - than go into the future.
Scientists have for some years been able to 'teleport' quantum states from one place to another. Now Seth Lloyd and his MIT team say that, using the same principles and a further strange quantum effect known as 'postselection', it should be possible to do the same backwards in time. Lloyd told the Technology Review: "It is possible for particles (and, in principle, people) to tunnel from the future to the past."
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