Poll of the Day > This has me convinced time travel is real!

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https://www.mandatory.com/culture/1038388-an-1838-fictional-tale-by-edgar-allan-poe-eerily-predicted-an-18

Basically, Poe writes about four people who are starving at sea, draw straws, and kill and eat the loser, cabin boy Richard Parker. 40 odd years later four people are adrift at sea in a lifeboat, one drinks seawater and goes into a coma. When they draw straws for who will be eaten, the coma guy gets the short straw in a development that surprises no one. And so the three other men kill and eat the cabin boy. Richard Parker. Seriously.

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All existence is time travel

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year before the titanic set sail, a book (futility) was written about a luxury ocean liner setting sail and sinking after hitting an iceberg in the atlantic. ship was called the titan.
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In Deus Ex the World Trade Center is missing from the New York skyline. The game was released in 2000, a year before 9/11.

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Mead posted...

All existence is time travel

Actually time does not exist, it's just a fiction we use to help understand the universe, in reality everything is cause and effect, one step along a line that has nothing at all to do with time. Travel in either direction is not possible, other then by following the laws of the universe to an eventual conclusion. To "reverse" time one would need to recreate the universe in a previous configuration. To move forward through time one would need to accelerate the steps to a future configuration, preferably by simply ceasing to exist for so many steps, or at least no longer knowing of ones existence during such steps.

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Krazy_Kirby posted...

year before the titanic set sail, a book (futility) was written about a luxury ocean liner setting sail and sinking after hitting an iceberg in the atlantic. ship was called the titan.

That book was slightly rewritten after the disaster to exploit it for sales.

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You wouldn't need to recreate anything for traveling to the past. It already existed. Changing anything would be impossible though.
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