Re:What Happened When We Tried to Publish a Real Paper Inves...
by rbmoshe on Friday June 20, 2014 @12:34PM
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Can someone explain the different views of time? If someone were to time travel and make the mistake of doing a google search like that, then after they are caught, couldn't they go back and tell themselves not to do the search?
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Re:What Happened When We Tried to Publish a Real Paper Inves...
by jckt on Friday June 20, 2014 @12:44PM
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By "different views of time" do you mean a scientific view, or a philosophical view? If it's the scientific view, the idea regarding time and macroscopic bodies -- general relativity -- specifically what you'd need to describe someone travelling in time, explicitly forbids that, so I don't think there is actually any possible scientific answer to your question.
Philosophically, but something vaguely based on physics, there's the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics. But as far as I know the "physical meaning" has no bearing on science. There's a good sci-fi novel about a universe where the MWI is true -- Anathem by Neal Stephenson.
Re:What Happened When We Tried to Publish a Real Paper Inves...
by thebooktocome on Friday June 20, 2014 @02:01PM
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For the sake of nitpicking, it was never clear to me that MWI was true in Anathem. In any case, you need much more than that to reproduce Anathem's plot -- it runs on consensus deciding reality.