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[BaRrOw]

Alright, my turn to be lost.

 

[Sir_Brizz]

well, at the end of Timecop, Van Damme pushes the young version of the bad guy into the old version of him and they kinds of turn into goop and disappear, because the same matter can't occupy the same space at the same time.

That's one thing that turns me off to the whole idea of PHYSICAL time travel. Matter is neither created nor destroyed, yet if you have the same matter in the same time-space location in two different locations, you have added matter to that time-space location, which we know is impossible to do.

I think the closest we'll ever come to actual time travel is cryogenice freeze

 

[GotBeer?]

So now we're taking physics lessons from Van Damme movies?

 

[XMP.Arc]

So now we're taking physics lessons from Van Damme movies?

nooo. space-time continuum...

 

[Pinkey]

You all need to see the movie "What the Bleep Do We Know?" It's very entertaining.

 

[BaRrOw]

That's one thing that turns me off to the whole idea of PHYSICAL time travel. Matter is neither created nor destroyed, yet if you have the same matter in the same time-space location in two different locations, you have added matter to that time-space location, which we know is impossible to do.

Unless the initial matter (the person/object/whatever) swaps places with the desintation matter (air/whatever), in which case it would simply be displacement... It would esentially be a transformation of matter, instead of creation/destruction of matter.

 

[Whitey]

Time travel makes me feel all wobbly... I think I may have just displaced some matter by accident!

 

[Sir_Brizz]

Unless the initial matter (the person/object/whatever) swaps places with the desintation matter (air/whatever), in which case it would simply be displacement... It would esentially be a transformation of matter, instead of creation/destruction of matter.

Yah, that was the premise behind Quantum Leap, except in that case he was jumping into different people's places...

 

[CrazyLittleOne]

... but that would mean that the person had to consist of the exact same amount of matter as him