Has anyone tried this experiment?

concusion3

concusion3

Temporal Novice
You write a date, time and place on a piece of paper, and make the steadfast commitment that even if you fail to show up to meet yourself (if by chance in the future one of us is able to access a time machine) keep this paper in your wallet/purse or what have you for the rest of your life. If time travel is ever invented you go back and meet yourself.

I imagine this can only work if you commit to keeping this piece of paper for your whole life regardless of whether your future self shows up or not. If your future self were to show up and there is a chance that you would try to mess with the timeline and throw it out and forget to meet yourself, the experiment will fail (if a time machine is ever invented we can access in our lifetimes of course.) I haven't attempted to try this yet, because I think I'd have to talk myself up on the commitment of keeping that piece of paper to start the closed time like curve. I assume the time and date could be backed up a computer too if you lose the piece of paper, just need to commit that time date and place to memory.

Thoughts?
 
I thought about this, but for a time when I left the door unlocked during the night, and seeing if I would walk in that night. Might be a little risky but most of the time nothing happens.

I've thought about that recently, really.

Don't know if it could actually work if somehow in the future I did run into myself in the past.
 
Concusion 3;
That’s an interesting TT test but it seems it will cause either of two things (at least for me).
First, if after I write the time, date, and place on the paper and then sit back and see myself standing there it would most likely scare the crap out of me and I would have a heart attack and die and that of course would prevent me from surviving into the future to travel back to the date on the paper and that would then prevent my traveling back to give myself a heart attack so I would survive to travel back and I would be caught in an endless time loop.
Or, as soon as I write down the time, date, and place on the paper and sit back and don’t see myself standing there I will know that at the very least I do not survive to the time when TT is invented/ discovered. If you ever can TT back to a date you establish NOW you wont have to wait for yourself to appear. You either will immediately or you won’t.
 
Why would you have a heart attack, wouldn't you somehow be expecting it? And wouldn't your future self be a bit smarter then to just scare the living crap out of you out of no where? /ttiforum/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Interesting theory/idea Concusion3,

On 'The Big Bang Theory', Sheldon and Leonard did a similar thing. When Leonard was moving in as a room mate, one of Sheldon's conditions was that if either of them invent a time machine they are to travel back in time to 'five seconds from now'. They sat there for the next five seconds looking around for themselve(s) to appear, which never happened, with Sheldon then simply stating 'well that's disappointing', so they just continued on with the next room mate rule/condition/test.

I'd like to try your experiment, but I'd prefer not to as I don't want to be instantly disappointed (as was Sheldon). Like a lot of us I'd rather dream on that it might happen one day out of the blue!

B!

Edit/Rider...
Actually I think the experiment just failed. I locked into my mind that if I was to invent, find, borrow or steal a time machine I would go (back to) to where I was the moment the second aircraft hit (you know what). I think that is a date you CAN NOT forget or forget where you were.

In my case, after the first plane hit Mum woke me up (it was about 10pm AU time) I had fallen asleep watching 'West Wing' of all things! I then spent at least the 12 hours watching it all unfold TV while talking to my brother on the phone the whole time.

Considering my health (the big C), I'm hoping your theory is faulty or simply that I never get access to a time machine to come back. If I was to use a TM I would go to when I was 16yo and stop myself from having that first cigarette!!
 
when I ws 7, I started a similar experiment. I chose a location. A remote location. And told myself that if I invent a time machine, I will place a core component in this location and that I would be able to locate it with a metal detector.

I have thought about that promise to myself 1000 times over the past 30 yrs and still have yet to check. I guess its not a priority right now.
 
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