Any real travelers? I need help.

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Sabwafare

Temporal Novice
Please do not post here unless you are a real traveler.

You can help me. Noone here and now can. I am suffering. Please PM me on this forum if you are a real traveler. If I don't receive your response today right now I am afraid it may already be too late. If you are from the future then you already know what I speak of. Please help me.
 
I guess this was somewhat a pathetic attempt. There truly is no hope. Enjoy your lives.
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Don't give up so easily. I'm alive today because of quite possibly the intervention of a time traveler. And there is very strong evidence that the time traveler in question was me from my future. Or one of my possible futures.
 
Thank you for not looking down on me. I'm afraid if help doesn't come very soon it will be too late. Can you give me any details of this intervention? Perhaps if it was you in the future you can be the one to save my life and the lives of others. Maybe I am being naive and noone will step in. Time will tell.
 
Good afternoon.

My good friend the Doc may be able to help you. If you go to the high street tonight at 8pm, you will find him. His time machine is a delorean and is pretending to undertake a weather experiment but will be using the 1.21 gigawats that a flash of lightning will strike the clock tower with.

Goodluck.
Your friend in time.
Marty.
 
Thank you for not looking down on me. I'm afraid if help doesn't come very soon it will be too late. Can you give me any details of this intervention? Perhaps if it was you in the future you can be the one to save my life and the lives of others. Maybe I am being naive and noone will step in. Time will tell.
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My story... I was going through a divorce about 7 years ago. I was very emotionally distraught over losing my wife that way. So I decided to end it all. So there I was, plastic bag over my head, breathing my lasts breaths of air... All of a sudden I hear a beeping sound coming from my computer. So I figure a few more minutes of delay wont matter. So I take the plastic bag off my head and go see why my computer is beeping. My ICQ messaging program had a message for me. So I looked to see who it was from. A message from a long lost girlfriend from way back in my past. I couldn't believe it. But I then no longer had a desire to end my life. What timing! Another few minutes and I would have been gone. On my way out to my mailbox within a half hour of this event there was a letter from a stock broker addressed to me. In the letter it stated that some stock that I had sold went for some large sum of money and I would be receiving a check in the mail by the end of the week. That was very interesting because I didn't have any stock. I thought it was a mistake but who am I to look a gift horse in the mouth. So there I am on the day I was going to end it all with two very good reasons to keep on living. So I kept on living. It wasn't long before I found out that both the message from the girlfriend and the money in the mail were bogus. So who did it? Who gave me those reasons to keep on living? Was it devine intervention? Is there really a god? I like to figure stuff out. So naturally I figure that it must be someone with a vested interest in my survival. So my theory is that it must have been me from the future that gave me those reasons to stay alive. Afterall one of my desires in life was to invent a time machine. Maybe I really do invent one.

Now I don't really know what your situation is. But I do know you wont be taking your life. Suicidal people don't look or ask for help. But it is apparent that you anticipate some gloom and doom. Just about everything in life is a choice. Just make some choices that need to be made.
 
Hi everyone, Im kinda new to the boards but have been a reader here for about a year now.
Very interesting Einstein, I was sorry to hear of your loss, I have experienced something similar which is why iam here and why I also have a great interest in time travel. But I wonder how it would be possible for your future self to prevent you from commiting suicide if your future self had gone through with the act?
 
But I wonder how it would be possible for your future self to prevent you from commiting suicide if your future self had gone through with the act?
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I've thought about this too. I suppose with multiple worldline theory there probably is a worldline where I did succeed in committing suicide. Having access to time control technology does open up new doors to go through. And then there is still that nagging possibility at the back of my mind. There really may be a higher power and devine intervention did take place.
 
Einstein's post suggests quantum immortality. Everett's many-worlds interpretaton and the quantum suicide experiment can explain why he still exists.

Tegmark describes the 'Quantum Suicide Experiment' as follows (I have simplified the text and removed the mathematical proofs):

The apparatus is a "quantum gun" which each time its trigger is pulled measures the z-spin of a particle [particles can be spin up or spin down, seemingly at random]. It is connected to a machine gun that fires a single bullet if the result is "down" and merely makes an audible click if the result is "up".... The experimenter first places a sand bag in front of the gun and tells her assistant to pull the trigger ten times. All [quantum mechanics interpretations] predict that she will hear a seemingly random sequence of shots and duds such as "bang-click-bang-bang-bang-click-click-bang-click-click". She now instructs her assistant to pull the trigger ten more times and places her head in front of the barrel. This time the "shut-up-and calculate" [non-manyworlds interpretations of QM] have no meaning for an observer in the dead state... and the [interpretations] will differ in their predictions. In interpretations where there is an explicit non-unitary collapse, she will be either dead or alive after the first trigger event, so she should expect to perceive perhaps a click or two (if she is moderately lucky), then "game over", nothing at all. In the MWI, on the other hand, the ... prediction is that [the experimenter] will hear "click" with 100% certainty. When her assistant has completed this unenviable assignment, she will have heard ten clicks, and concluded that the collapse interpretations of quantum mechanics [all but the MWI] are ruled out to a confidence level of 1-0.5n ˜ 99.9%. If she wants to rule them out "ten sigma", she need merely increase n by continuing the experiment a while longer. Occasionally, to verify that the apparatus is working, she can move her head away from the gun and suddenly hear it going off intermittently. Note, however, that [almost all instances] will have her assistant perceiving that he has killed his boss.

What this means is that, in most universes, there is one less experimenter, but the experimenter herself does not experience death.

The QTI is formed by reformulating the 'Quantum Suicide' experiment so that the movement of a calcium ion in a brain is used as a proxy for the spin-watching 'quantum gun', following the work of Stapp.

If the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is correct then a conscious observer can never cease to exist.
 
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not the terminator paradox again!
I hate this one, it was so corny I decided against using it in my book.
Then to explain how it possible you make up something about the many worlds theory!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here it is folks the reality of what einstien bloke said on this board, its all a load of tosh, you cannot go back to the past to save yourself from killing yourself because you would already be dead, because in the past you killed yourself, if you exist in the future then you wouldn't need to go back to the past to stop yourself from killing yourself because you obviously didn't which is why you are alive in the future in the first place. Hence you wouldn't feel the need to go back in time, because you didn't kill yourself even if you felt like doing it anyway, the fact that you are alive means you didn't kill yourself in the past. I mean gosh, did you really think you could get away with explaining your concidence as a visit from your future self with the many worlds theory?
NONONONONONONO!!!!!!!
Many worlds theory is used to explain all this supposed timetravel malarky, 'Oh well I was walking down the road and I was about to cross the road when I decided not to becausemy future self turned up and stopped me, boy, if I had I would have crossed the road and been runover by a pigeon'!!!
Nope don't think so, get therapy, and get on with your life!
And stop digging up cliches from the world of Star trek or whatever!
 
Demsys

I have given considerable thought to all of this. There is a definite advantage to my going back in time and saving my younger self from killing himself. For one thing, I will ensure that I will be on the same timeline as my younger self just by saving him. The sports almanac that I take along with me, will then also be on the same timeline and will be accurate. This to me sounds like a very lucrative retirement plan. But if I succeed in doing this, then it is obvious that I have created a timeloop or paradox. So how did the loop start? That question doesn't bother me as much as asking myself if I want to break the loop this time around? Afterall, we all have freedom of choice. I believe freedom of choice is what makes all those multiple other worldlines.

I'm one of those guys that likes a challenge. The challenge of building a time machine is a pretty big one. Sounds like my cup of tea.
 
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