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How do you know that you are not lying in a container, filled with embryonic fluid, hooked into a computer simulation? You don't. In fact, no one in existence can disqualify that theory. I don't know. I suspect. You don't know, you suspect. So let us set the framework for discussion. I think this is good. Let's begin here.
If we agree that time travel is possible, then by that admission we are agreeing it has happened already. A time traveler would be like a photon. The past, future, and present mean nothing to him. They are merely locations on a map. Just like if you want to visit a friend in New York.
The question then becomes if that is true, why do we not experience a different past all the time?
Well, this is the deal, we can't say definitively what is real. Maybe we do experience different pasts all the time. We can't say we don't or do. We don't know if we have an infinity of pasts and are only able to perceive just one.
We already know that we cannot grasp the cosmos or universe as it truly is. We run experiments and come up with crazy results that cannot be explained using our flimsy concept of science. Our best minds know that we have a long way to go before even understanding the most basic and fundamental processes in existence. The prevailing understanding now is that timetravel likely possible, happens all the time, and influences the present all the time. We can simply see this one sliver of what we think is past, present, and future.
So we can debate the framework if you wish. But it is going to be really hard getting around that first shovel in the ground. Time travel allows you to go forward and backwards in time. If you can go backwards, then you are already have.
how do you know that in the future for which time travel is possible that they have not come up with rules and regulations(i.e. prime directive) which restricts the use of this technology...u keep assuming that if it happens once that time travel will be continuous which is a faulty assumption imho...
this movie kinda explores what we have been discussing today and the crazy amount of calculations needed to not affect the past when time traveling...for the most part i believe it's on point as altering the past can affect the present and future....
since u've read my post throughout the years you probably already know that i refer to this plane of existence as the matrix and also humans being a quark or even a smaller particle than that inside of a larger being....no one knows what reality totally is so let's keep this discussion strictly on time travel...we have plenty of room to move around in this multiverse...lol
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khasm