tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-613387965721174471.post8459785104992461459..comments2024-03-04T02:03:29.708-05:00Comments on the Wood between Worlds: Thought Experiment on Entropic Restrictions in Time TravelReecehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10691425406901685427noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-613387965721174471.post-79727917208296280392016-12-16T09:43:28.812-05:002016-12-16T09:43:28.812-05:00this lowkey makes me think. for example, if altern...this lowkey makes me think. for example, if alternate timelines do exist in conjunction with each other, do people ever really die? with an infinite amount of timelines, its reasonable to believe that the mad scientist indeed did die from the puma attack while surviving it in other timelines. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03330716921132933966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-613387965721174471.post-46720031159661056632015-12-21T01:25:23.022-05:002015-12-21T01:25:23.022-05:00The whole idea of the grandfather's paradox is...The whole idea of the grandfather's paradox is absurd. For one, time does not exist. In order for one to time travel, one must simply decrease entropy in the universe. There is no such thing as going back in time, like stepping on board a subway or aircraft and then going back to the point in the past. It simply doesn't happen. If you are able to travel to a point you weren't born, dazzleworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15162330338196887546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-613387965721174471.post-34928261815257228002015-08-18T18:50:46.138-04:002015-08-18T18:50:46.138-04:00I believe I was a little unclear in my first rebut...I believe I was a little unclear in my first rebuttal. <br /><br />What I meant to say was: A hot bowl comes from the future, you place it in the Stirling engine. Temperature evens out. Hence energy is dissipated into the surroundings. Entropy increases. You send the new bowl back to the past to repeat the experiment at a lower temperature. However, entropy surely would not be conserved, even if Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07127110658189450318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-613387965721174471.post-21306881319576466402015-08-18T18:45:49.095-04:002015-08-18T18:45:49.095-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07127110658189450318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-613387965721174471.post-32283584901681821132015-08-18T17:10:28.841-04:002015-08-18T17:10:28.841-04:00Continued....
However bizarre and unlikely it is,...Continued....<br /><br />However bizarre and unlikely it is, I think I do buy into time travel. The only thing is that it's not traversing time on a single line that is called your life. Rather, it is merely entering a new timeline which is part of an infinite series of timelines that all exist simultaneously and all are equally real. Now what is entering said timeline raises all sorts of Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07127110658189450318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-613387965721174471.post-69203043443232571032015-08-18T17:10:08.330-04:002015-08-18T17:10:08.330-04:00Well according to my suggestion he would move to a...Well according to my suggestion he would move to a timeline in which he dies in that exact way in that exact moment. It falls into the infinite series of equally real timelines. <br /><br />But if I were to look at your experiment, how can I fault it such that your theory might be invalidated?<br /><br />Well, even if no net change occurred in the past from work, what's to say particles werenAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07127110658189450318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-613387965721174471.post-1906547641157646332015-08-16T13:11:00.515-04:002015-08-16T13:11:00.515-04:00I didn't really think about the issue of one e...I didn't really think about the issue of one experimenter going rogue. From one experimenter's point of view, the experiment will go like this:<br /><br />Suppose that in my mad science laboratory, I have an insulated bowl of water which I call (1), a Stirling engine, and a TARDIS. When the experiment begins, a live puma jumps out of the TARDIS and mauls me to death. Nothing further Reecehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10691425406901685427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-613387965721174471.post-9384530358269393502015-08-14T19:13:19.617-04:002015-08-14T19:13:19.617-04:00I have a perdurantist outlook on existence if that...I have a perdurantist outlook on existence if that adds anything.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07127110658189450318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-613387965721174471.post-74379081764420050962015-08-14T19:08:20.878-04:002015-08-14T19:08:20.878-04:00An eyebrow raising take on time travel! However I ...An eyebrow raising take on time travel! However I think you might be purposefully digging yourself a circular trench you can't get out of here. If you sent the bowl back and the past you doesn't bother to send it back again, does that not change the past? Then there's extra energy sent back in time and floating about in the past world and you have added energy to a limited system. If Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07127110658189450318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-613387965721174471.post-13886749822690992922015-05-27T10:10:07.490-04:002015-05-27T10:10:07.490-04:00I'd always been a little sceptical of the idea...I'd always been a little sceptical of the idea of time travel I must say, but this articulate explanation only confirms my suspicions that, as you point out, the future cannot change the past!Accountants London Ladyhttp://www.carbonaccountancy.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-613387965721174471.post-38910627158664810272015-02-25T18:05:31.763-05:002015-02-25T18:05:31.763-05:00The main thing that jumps out at me is this: Once...The main thing that jumps out at me is this: Once Marty is grown, why don't his parents recognize him as the person who introduced them in high school? After all, they did name him after him so you think that would jog their memory. I wish I better understood your description regarding entropy and causation in time travel to proffer a decent discussion, but alas I fall short. However, I Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08518721883501003254noreply@blogger.com