Time travel visitations

There appears to be no evidence that we have been visited from future time travellers, thus making a very good case against the possibility of time travel ever being possible at all. 

I love to hang out in my local town, where my local bar is a coaching inn dating back over 400 years, still offering overnight accommodation and food and beverage to the traveller to this day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaching_inn


See attached link and read the paragraph on 'The Cock and Bull' - The Bull Hotel is my local and The Cock Hotel is 50 yards down the high street...

In the winter months, I particularly like to imagine what it would have been like to have been a coach traveller spending an evening in the town in the 16th or 17th century. If I had the chance, I would.

Is my time travel fantasy ever to be realised? or is that beyond the realm...

Discuss...

[Note to self: after further reading, it appears that the Coaching Inn may not be what I thought it was.  It may still be worthwhile to send a few Coaches back to the 16th century, though.  It would be interesting to find out how effective a leather whistle strap and a short temper would be against a knights armour and a sword...]

space_cowboy

(1) Mankind does not survive enough to make the machine 

Well..... not yet.


Give 'em time, will you?

space_cowboy

Assume that given enough time, any major problem can be solved with the combination of Money, Brains and Time.   

Maybe in the future they don't make assumptions like this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rats_in_the_Walls

I'm not so sure I'd want to see what remains exist in the basement where I used to live... It was weird down there...

Yes, some people under hypnosis have claimed to have lived in a different time (while living in the present). Describe the environment and everything, but even with a time traveller how would you even know if it was a time traveller in the first place?? They may not want to show theirselves or even interfere enough to make a difference, but even then they might have altered the future to where the time traveller does not even know again what the future will be, then the future is still up for grabs (except for some people I can not mention here on this forum obviously somewhere else in this Country dissovling our future it seems). Well.........................................................one almost made step into the future then for all of us.

Elf...raised an interesting point. The story about the 2 women at Versailles who claimed to have seen Marie Anttoinette was interesting in that it appeared that even the surroundings looked like it might have looked back in the 18th century. I think that some of us, who may have been absorbing a lot of historical information, or rather, have more of a historical bent to us, might be, in a certain way, a type of Time Traveller.

What you're missing is that this could be the first iteration through the time period we're aware of.  Therefore, until we DO create a time machine and go back the first time, we haven't been visited.  Once the initial trip occurs, a ripple effect while change "history" if you will and all of us will be focused on a different thread of time.  We would also spontaeously have memories of any trips that happened in our current past.  Simple, ya?

How do you know that the last person that asked you for directions wasn't a time traveller?

There are plenty of points in our current history that can be explained by time travel.

And then there's the option that time travellers are not visible to us, so we could be surrounded by historians from the future taking notes for their collage degrees.


My view is that a time machine is a self paradox.  The first logical use for the first, size of a small town, uses enough energy to power a small country, time machine would be to jump forwards a few hundred years to a time when time machines are bracelets or implants. But this in itself would remove the development work required to make them, thus they would not exist...

I have a feeling time is circular, not linear.

There is evidence around these parts that people are already beginning to devolve.

My Grandfather was old.  He never drove in a straight line.  He'd look at a map like it was a quaint idea, then head off in whatever direction seemed interesting at the time.  I don't think he ever took the same route twice.  Anywhere.

I think Time learned a few tricks from my Grandfather.  Certainly, they grew up together.  It makes sense they would have played some of the same games and had similar experiences. 

I think that may be the reason Time often leaves the driver's door open at the gas station so everyone else has to listen to the door chime while he goes in and picks up another can of WD-40, some strange candy no one wants, and 14 cans of bug spray.

We are all time travelers...we just have no control.
The best we've been able to do is create zones and
screw with it in the name of savings.

All I know is that if I'm wandering the wasteland and I come across a domed cage match hosted by Tina Turner, who is shouting, "Two men enter!  One man leaves!", I'm turning around.

I'm just sayin'...

I see time as linear with a beginning and an end but I also see it as lateral, each moment (not literally a moment, but as time travels forward I think it also is as wide as needed to encompass being personal and unique for every being and every place, wide time... I also think, though I cannot prove, that the spiritual realm exists outside of the time and space that constrains the physical.

I may be completely off the wall in reality but it is a way for me to grasp and understand time and reconcile a God who claims to be omnipresent. I guess I am a visual learner and thinker so I have to have something to visualize. Anyway, it works for me.

J

I suspect that “if” time travel is mastered (assuming we a not currently caught in some sort of loop as we speak), my guess is that the travelers will look at the past as a new frontier ripe for pillaging (not a new theme … Time Bandits comes to mind) and many will start procreating with their ancestors (again, not a novel idea … Michael J. Fox was able to avert the situation).  The result will be family trees that ultimately morph into Mobius strips.