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Re: OT : Time Travel....

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From: Mr.T
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:58
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"Duggy" <Paul.Duggan@jcu.edu.au> wrote in message
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> We're sort of saying here's an inflated balloon: where did it begin,
> and one person is saying "it started as a uninflated balloon, the
> whole thing is the origin point" and the other is saying "it started
> here where you blow the air in"
>
> Right?

Not really. The air is never blown into a baloon at the centre, always at
one edge :-)


> > And you know exactly how the earths gravity will affect a time machine
that
> > hasn't yet been invented, HOW exactly?
>
> Which is why you have to discuss hypothetical types of time machines.

Yep, and not make claims that they know all possibilities and eventualities
for something that will probably never exist anyway.


> > Not according to most cosmologists, of course it depends on your
definition
> > of explosion. Size increasing to encompass earths orbit before
subsequently
> > collapsing, is a widely accepted theory.
>
> Would the speed of expansion be a factor?

On the time from inhabitable earth to non-inhabitable, yes.


> > Proof will have to wait a while :-)
> > But if you have PROOF to the contrary, by all means let's hear it.
>
> Why wait, can't we initiate something to cause it now?

Not sure why you would want to, but current technology is inadequate for the
purpose anyway.

MrT.
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