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Time Travel Question

If we accept the "Infinite Worlds" theory, going back in time should enable us to land in a timeline where everything is similar to the one we just left (save for the fact that there exists a time-traveling you.) However, since there are an infinite number of worlds at any given point, what is the probability of landing in said timeline?

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cock of the infinite divided by tight anus

i am now your father.

I think the trick would be how you define 'similar'. If you have an infinite number of possible outcomes, the probability of any one of them is essentially zero. But if you take a 'large enough' group of them by also including similar outcomes, you might be something nonzero. For example, take a probability distribution that looks like a bell curve. The probability of any given value occurring is 0 (the area under the curve is 0, since it's an area under a single point). But the probability of a given value or /similar/ values occurring is nonzero if you think of the similar values as forming an interval around the original given value. So, the area under the curve is nonzero because it's an area under an interval.
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Originally posted by tachobg the probability of any one of them is essentially zero.

But it wouldn't ever be 0. Since the limit of 1/x approaches 0 as x approaches infinity, the result would still be a real number, correct?

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Originally posted by msz cock of the infinite divided by tight anus

epic laughing

Like Sliders?

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Originally posted by msz cock of the infinite divided by tight anus

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Originally posted by kadomony If we accept the "Infinite Worlds" theory, going back in time should enable us to land in a timeline where everything is similar to the one we just left (save for the fact that there exists a time-traveling you.) However, since there are an infinite number of worlds at any given point, what is the probability of landing in said timeline? Also:

Fuck I miss BnB so much... lol that crazy little bastard.

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Originally posted by kadomony If we accept the "Infinite Worlds" theory, going back in time should enable us to land in a timeline where everything is similar to the one we just left (save for the fact that there exists a time-traveling you.) However, since there are an infinite number of worlds at any given point, what is the probability of landing in said timeline?

consider the possibility that there is no such thing as time, that time is a perceptual effect of physical and mental conditioning. Anyone who has dreamed or tripped or almost died knows what I am talking about.

Theoretically 'being' in any time would be simply a matter of looking the right way.

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Originally posted by nefardec tripped

Hell yeah

Drug induced Time Dilation is one of those things everyone should experience before they die! I'll never forget how fucked up it was when I first experienced a minute that felt like foreeeeeeeeeeeever.....

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Originally posted by Akridrot Hell yeah Drug induced Time Dilation is one of those things everyone should experience before they die!

i have experienced time-less situations. Experiences out of time or beyond time. That is breathtaking, and scary as fuck.

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Originally posted by nefardec consider the possibility that there is no such thing as time, that time is a perceptual effect of physical and mental conditioning. Anyone who has dreamed or tripped or almost died knows what I am talking about. Theoretically 'being' in any time would be simply a matter of looking the right way.

i totally agree. the concept of "time" is a human (ego) created concept. plants and animals have no concept of past or future. BUT this isn't a spiritual discussion. rather, one of speculation on an outcome if time travel were possible.

how about instead of going "back" in time, traveling to a parallel world where all objects and events are the same, but are delayed by a certain amount of time.

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles

thats fucking hella sick!!!




Gotta love fission!

What do you all think of 'Deja Vu'?

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Originally posted by kadomony i totally agree. the concept of "time" is a human (ego) created concept.

i think the physicists disagree with you.

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Originally posted by kadomony i totally agree. the concept of "time" is a human (ego) created concept. plants and animals have no concept of past or future. BUT this isn't a spiritual discussion. rather, one of speculation on an outcome if time travel were possible.

i havent read any research on plants and animals concepts of past and future, but i imagine there is probably SOME concept, even if it isnt the same concept, just looking at the matter from an evolutionary perspective.


i don't like to think of time in a linear way. It's convenient for getting places on time while I go about my mundane life, but when conceive of time itself, I don't think that there is such a thing as forward and backward movement along a continuum, but rather a pleroma potential worlds existing without time. as such i believe that the liberated mind may actuate any such potential simply by directing awareness of it.

I think the continuous flowing experience of time is more a trick of the mind similar to how we see a sequence of photographs as a moving picture, or how we interpret colors on a poster as flat regions when in fact they are super fast fluctuations of waves of light of different speeds.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN i think the physicists disagree with you.

i took a knot theory class taught by a physicist and computer scientist and he agreed with me after a discussion on hyperdimensionality that time is a perceptual phenomenon of the topology of the universe.

it was one of those eureka moments where i had a flash of insight, but sadly it went away and i could never understand it like i did in that instant

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Originally posted by nefardec i took a knot theory class taught by a physicist and computer scientist and he agreed with me after a discussion on hyperdimensionality that time is a perceptual phenomenon of the topology of the universe.

whenever you want to discuss things in english you just let me know.

I can't believe we've gone this many posts without some moron mentioning a flux capacitor.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN whenever you want to discuss things in english you just let me know.

You pleb. What he said made perfect sense.

"I took a knot theory class taught by a physicist and computer scientist and he agreed with me after a discussion on hyperdimensionality that time is a perceptual phenomenon of the topology of the universe."

=

"I took a class where I tried to be really smart and just ended up looking like a wanker even though the professor agreed with me."

Seriously though his post was extremely clear.

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Originally posted by Domesticated Seriously though his post was extremely clear.

well you know me, dumber than a sack full of hammers.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN whenever you want to discuss things in english you just let me know.

whenever you want to get an education, you just let me know.

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