Comment on Implications

JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  One of which is that Stephen Hawking threw a lousy party.

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  • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The other one is that most people haven’t herd of it, so I doubt the knowledge of this party will travel that far into the future.

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    • BossDj@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Someone who put work and effort into developing time travel will have heard of it. Unless it happened after a complete destruction and rebuild of civilization or two.

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      • Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Maybe Stephen Hawking sent hate mail to future humans so now they don’t attend his party out of spite.

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      • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Or it was developed by aliens who don’t care about human history.

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  • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Take that back!!

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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We’re in one of the unlucky few possible resulting timelines in which no one showed. My friend from timeline 3f-1933847.12b told me that their party is still going. Every few hours more travelers turn up with a fresh keg, and whatever their generation’s party drug is.

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• lugal@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s by far the most plausible but sure, if you ignore Ockham’s razor, sure, it’s only one of many explanations

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  • el_abuelo@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    More plausible than there being rules around time travel that involve not attending parties? I think not.

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    • Malgas@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      One such possibility is that you can only travel to times where the device you’re using to do so exists.

      More like a time gate than an H.G. Wells-style machine, but still a workable model.

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    • lugal@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Tbf the important question is: assuming that backwards time travel is possible, will people attempt to the party. And there I would say, unlikely. And while I think backwards time travel is very implausible, the experiment itself proves nothing

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      • el_abuelo@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I thought in your original reply you were saying the most plausible thing was that there must be no time travel. This reply suggests otherwise, which I agree with.

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• Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Maybe future people knew about his supposed ties to Epstein and didn’t want to show up…

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  • VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Exactly, they’d know a lot more accurately what happened too, which raises another point as to why no one comes back here - imagine gong somewhere that you know horrible things are happening to children but you can’t say anything or save them because of the timeline…

    Even if in the unlikely event Hawking didn’t know about it talking to him and not saying ‘that friend of yours epstine is a bad dude’ would be unbearable.

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• Ultraviolet@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For example maybe you need a working time machine at your destination, such that the earliest point possible to travel to is the moment the first time machine was switched on.

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• MonkderDritte@feddit.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  One of them that no one made a backup of the past.

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• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I mean, maybe people did show up. Maybe he never told anyone else due to the implications.

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• meeeeetch@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  News of his attendance at someone else’s party made all future time travelers give him a wide berth.

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