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Re:What Movies Get Wrong About Time Travel by dkersten on Friday August 14, 2009 @12:36PM (#763323)
If you could travel back in time (not saying anything about forward), would we not have seen evidence of it by now? If you can travel back to a different "time stream" of sorts, then I'd argue its not really the same "time", but rather another one that happens to mirror the one you intended to travel back to (except that you're there when you shouldn't be and any changes you make).
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Re:What Movies Get Wrong About Time Travel by blankity_blank on Friday August 14, 2009 @03:33PM (#763665)
RTFA
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Re:What Movies Get Wrong About Time Travel by burke on Saturday August 15, 2009 @03:06PM (#765066)
> 2) You can't visit any time before your time machine was built.

I think this is a very strange assertion to make. I find it more likely that one of the following is true:

1) Time travel is not possible

2) We'll wipe ourselves our before we discover it

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Re:What Movies Get Wrong About Time Travel by dkersten on Sunday August 16, 2009 @04:53PM (#766721)
No, the article is retarded. It compares fiction with fact and then goes on about why the fiction is wrong - its fiction! Its not meant to be right. Also, we don't KNOW that what he said is actually how time travel would work, were it possible. So its stupid.
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