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Originally posted by DigiNut Personally, if I could go back in time, I'd go back about 10 years and buy all the major Internet domains: sony.com, microsoft.com, ibm.com... hell, I'd be a trillionaire today, a lot of those corporations already paid billions to the smart people who got their hands on the domains first.

Dude get your info straight, nobody paid a billion for a domain name. Millions - yes. Or if I'm wrong and they did, can you link to the proof of such transaction? I'd be interested to know.

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Originally posted by Durafei Dude get your info straight, nobody paid a billion for a domain name. Millions - yes. Or if I'm wrong and they did, can you link to the proof of such transaction? I'd be interested to know.

*hangs head in shame*

You're probably right, but seeing as how we're dealing with an entirely hypothetical issue anyway, I'd much rather have $50 million now than $3 billion (assuming insanely high and consistent GIC interest rates, which is unlikely) in 500 years.

Guys...
Time travel is a human invention, something that you see in SciFi movies/books. Time travel is 100% impossible.

One cannot even use the phrase "if time travel was possible..." because it is a paradoxical statement. Everything coming after the statement would be false/unpredictable.

A simple example:
Lets say time travel was possible. Time by definition has no end. It is an indefinite concept. This would result in infinite time travels, infinite people would be traveling infinite number of times to the presents/pasts/futures. The reality would be chaos, every micro-second, someone will be altering time in the past/present/future. There would be no definite reality...

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Originally posted by Durafei Dude get your info straight, nobody paid a billion for a domain name. Millions - yes. Or if I'm wrong and they did, can you link to the proof of such transaction? I'd be interested to know.

ahhz .. i'm sure he was juss being sarcastic and exagerrating the figs there ..

and i heard once on Discovery that apparently time moves faster/slower in some parts of space .. ?? wtf.. cool !

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Originally posted by dEsidEL ahhz .. i'm sure he was juss being sarcastic and exagerrating the figs there ..

Well to be honest, I did pull it out of my ass. I just remember that people paid asinine amounts for domain names, wasn't really thinking about whether it'd be millions or billions or whatever.

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and i heard once on Discovery that apparently time moves faster/slower in some parts of space .. ?? wtf.. cool !

Like around black holes?

BTW, to Dr. Z, I for one don't believe that any sort of time travel will be possible in several centuries at least, but there's a lot we don't understand yet, and just because we can't come up with a plausible theory now doesn't mean there never will be one. Remember, 50 years ago nobody had even considered the possibility of computers or even solid-state electronics, a few hundred years ago people thought the idea of a 'wave' or a 'quanta' was utterly ridiculous, and 500 years ago people thought the world was flat and a bigger ball would fall faster than a smaller ball...

Personally, I think time travel will never be available to the public because of the fundamental nature of human greed. If I managed to invent a time machine, I'd never tell another soul about it, because I'd have so much more to gain by keeping it a secret...

you're forgeting about inflation.

If the bank's interest balances out with the inflation (if you're lucky), you may have more money in the bank in 500 years, but it will still only be worth the equivilant to $10 today.

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Originally posted by DigiNut Well to be honest, I did pull it out of my ass. I just remember that people paid asinine amounts for domain names, wasn't really thinking about whether it'd be millions or billions or whatever.

actually i was trying to defend u in my statement ..

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Originally posted by dEsidEL and i heard once on Discovery that apparently time moves faster/slower in some parts of space .. ?? wtf.. cool !

i may be wrong here...but from what i can remember from all these space shows and stuff

if you fly against the earths rotation or something then time moved slower or something
i can't remember

all i know is that i saw some thing where a guy was up in space somewhere and aged dramatically slower than he would've on earth, due to this concept

pretty fucked up if you ask me

i remember a teacher of mine in highschool wrote a book on the...12 dimensions? maybe it was 8...well whatever it was he went really in depth on the...5th dimension i think it is...which is timetravel

unfortunately the day he spent the entire class talking about it i skipped
go figure

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Originally posted by DigiNut BTW, to Dr. Z, I for one don't believe that any sort of time travel will be possible in several centuries at least, but there's a lot we don't understand yet, and just because we can't come up with a plausible theory now doesn't mean there never will be one. Remember, 50 years ago nobody had even considered the possibility of computers or even solid-state electronics, a few hundred years ago people thought the idea of a 'wave' or a 'quanta' was utterly ridiculous, and 500 years ago people thought the world was flat and a bigger ball would fall faster than a smaller ball...

Yes, people thought certain thoughts were absurd at the times they were in. But the idea of time travel is not the same. Look: When people theorised waves/photons, they were describing matter/reality. They were describing the natural phenomena that occurs arround us. So making new theories is possible, no matter how absurd, you just have to have the proof.

But when you talk about something like time travel, you cannot theorise anything. Time is not a natural phenomena, time is a human invention, invented to keep track of changes. Its basically a tool to understand some other natural phenomena, like velocity (speed, meters per second). You cannot theorise/do scientific research on time.

Its like saying:
There are exactly 100 centimeters in one meter (definition). That is the unit of measurement that we will use. Lets make a theory, If we alter space and make each 1meter(m) = 2m, or 100cm = 200cm. Then all objects will be twice as high.

:. Impossible.

where's bill nye when you need him? i want a definitive answer!

even though you guys say it's impossible, consider this: old people are always freaked out by the idea of the internet. either that or they dont want to undertand it.

"anything is possible", just maybe not right now.

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Originally posted by Kid Lax i may be wrong here...but from what i can remember from all these space shows and stuff if you fly against the earths rotation or something then time moved slower or something i can't remember all i know is that i saw some thing where a guy was up in space somewhere and aged dramatically slower than he would've on earth, due to this concept pretty fucked up if you ask me i remember a teacher of mine in highschool wrote a book on the...12 dimensions? maybe it was 8...well whatever it was he went really in depth on the...5th dimension i think it is...which is timetravel unfortunately the day he spent the entire class talking about it i skipped go figure

Ummmmmmm that "time moving slower" thing is due to the faster you travel towards the speed of light the slower you age (or the faster the people around you age). It has already been proven on an atomic clock that's been put on an aircraft going insanely fast that when compared to the same clock on the ground set at the same time, the clock on the ground was ahead by many seconds/min or something similar. This is the basic premise of the Astronauts travelled into the future in the "The Planet of the Apes" movies. Explain what would happen if you were to go even FASTER on an object while consistently speeding up till you were to hit the speed of light (sure the phsysics behind that would hurt like a bitch, the G Force would be insane, crushing pressure etc but if all of that was taken into consideration then what??).

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hehe .. i'm starting to like this thread .. it's kinda funny actually. but you all know it's only a matter of time that some TOTA with a physics degree steps into the conversation and schools us all ..

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