If we all made an agreement to pass to all our next generations in future to beleive that they must come meet us from future on Specific Date as soon as they can reach a solution to travel through time? Will they really come? .. for example we can make this meeting tommorow and all of us swear that they will pass this agreement to their sons and grandsons .. etc ... will it work ?
2006-12-29 07:46:50 · 5 answers · asked by The_Architect 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Hmm. In Robert A. Heinlein's story "Time Enough for Love," the main character did something like this. He gave a sealed set of nested envelopes, with the message, to the archivist of a foundation. The outer envelope was to be opened at a certain date in the future, the next envelope gave the opening date/place of that one, etc.
I think something like this might work - if there is an large, long term institution around with the resources and good archives to handle "delay mail" (as Heinlein called it). Possibly the only institution that has had such a long life span might be the Catholic Church. The integrity of Church Archives is another issue, however, for historians to argue about.
Heinlein proposed time travel in his science fiction, stating the assumption that there could be no anomalies and paradoxes (like preventing your own birth by killing your own grandparent before having given birth to your parent). Heinlein also proposed a large number of alternate universes in his fiction, where presumably you never exist for those reasons. I'll let the theoretical physicists debate those issues, I'm not qualified to enter into the discussion....
2006-12-29 07:59:51 · answer #1 · answered by techyphilosopher2 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A solution to travel through time? Is such an idea even possible? You first need to assume that time travel would ever be possible. I've never taken physics, but I believe there is one existence, which is here and now. Go back to watching the Back to the Future series until you can find something worth asking.
2006-12-29 16:45:03 · answer #2 · answered by just_a_prayer_away 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if we do exist in parallel universes. If we aren't here to meet, or there is a wrinkle in time, then what?
2006-12-29 15:54:34 · answer #3 · answered by curiositycat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
huh? read harry potter book 3. "no one's supposed to meddle with time. nobody." :)
2006-12-29 15:54:33 · answer #4 · answered by Kelly S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would not matter since they would already have returned.
2006-12-29 16:01:58 · answer #5 · answered by Jerry P 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋