Time travel quotes

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sunflogun

Temporal Novice
We might read a lot about time travel, but some quotes stun us more than others. How about sharing them here and debating about them?

Here's one to start with:

"Our best clocks use the vibration of an atom to measure time, atoms which have been vibrating since they were created billions of years ago"

 
I like this quote by Stephen Hawking: “If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?”

I'm not saying that time travel is impossible but that's pretty much a fact. If in the future we can really time travel then why none visits us? For not influence our timeline or simply because we can't time travel?

 
I like this one from Bill Nye. Makes me think and sparks my imagination:

“When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?”

 
I like this quote by Stephen Hawking: “If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?”I'm not saying that time travel is impossible but that's pretty much a fact. If in the future we can really time travel then why none visits us? For not influence our timeline or simply because we can't time travel?
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I recently saw the movie about Hawking and I can definitely imagine him saying that, but he was a physicist and he only believed in what could be proven. As for tourists from the future, most likely hidden in front of our eyes. ;)

 
I recently saw the movie about Hawking and I can definitely imagine him saying that, but he was a physicist and he only believed in what could be proven. As for tourists from the future, most likely hidden in front of our eyes. ;)
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That could be true also. But it confirms what I supposed before. They are hidden because they don't want to create a mess here in the past maybe? Or they just wan to enjoy their stay? I think that if some tourist come from past they would leave some track of their passage.

 
I like this quote about time itself:

“People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.”

 
I recently saw the movie about Hawking and I can definitely imagine him saying that, but he was a physicist and he only believed in what could be proven. As for tourists from the future, most likely hidden in front of our eyes. ;)
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That movie was really great. It got me interested in time travel to be honest.By the way, I like this quote by James Altucher, "Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read."

 
So many people are worried about traveling to the past or the future, and most don´t even know how to live in the present

- me

Hawkins talked about traveling to the past creating a feedback loop, I think this is true. I don´t think time travel to the past is possible and I don´t say that because we don´t have visitors now, I say that because we can´t time travel OURSELVES now. Once backwards time travel is created, at any point in time, it would lead to people going back into the past, and creating time travel even earlier.

Earning money in the past would be trivial, stock market, sports gambling, patents.. whatever.. So if you could time travel into the past, you would basically have unlimited funds to create time travel at that point in time. If time travel to the past occurs at any point in time, it would occur at all points in time.

 
Living the present is indeed important, only when we can see the present properly a new set of possibilities opens before our eyes.

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That is true, I feel as though so many people dwell on the past, worry about the future, or both, that we can’t see what we’ve got at hand. I know I’ve struggled with this.

More food for thought:

“What would happen if history could be rewritten as casually as erasing a blackboard? Our past would be like the shifting sands at the seashore, constantly blown this way or that by the slightest breeze. History would be constantly changing every time someone spun the dial of a time machine and blundered his or her way into the past. History, as we know it, would be impossible. It would cease to exist.” - Michio Kaku

 
Actually I think that is something that happens often, governments try to rewrite some parts of history to their convenience and that is why we need to know for ourselves and not rely on what others tell us.

 
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