time travel

[Guest]

if you were to travel back in time and were to bring back a plant from the past. say it was five years old at that time and were to bring it back to the present would it still be five years old or would it age as you travel to the present

 

[Guest]

Yo, idiot. You can't bring an item back from the past, it will cause an incongruity. our system is chaotic, everything is interconnected in different ways. the incongruity will destroy the universe and the present won't exist. you do not want to destroy the time continuum.

 

[Time02112]

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Yo, CorranO...
I think we can certainly reflect a more mature behaviour than stooping to the level of name calling here, after all this is not the proper "Time" or "Place" for such demeanor.

Lighten up, can't we all just get along here?
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[pamela]

Corran,
You are wrong. You can bring an item back from the past,
a past parallel universe ,and it doesnt do a darn thing.

 

[Guest]

It depends what theory you believe in. What are the best ways that I can describe these theories? Something that everyone can understand - examples from good old popular culture! These examples are always shrouded in fact anyway! There are three main theories that I can think of.

If you believe the first, which I will tentatively call the "Forever Young" approach, then yes, no matter how you bring the plant to the present, it will age considerably during the "trip" through time. (In some cases this might take mere seconds).

The second,is the H.G. Wells/ "Doctor Who" theory of time travel, where the plant is carried through time on some sort of vessel or ship. The ship, like a TARDIS, has a special interdimensional barrier which contains the temporal impact within it. Therefore when travelling through time, because the plant is technically within a different dimension, it stays exactly the same.

The third and final theory that I can think of is similar to the lines of "Red Dwarf" and its ideas on the parallel universe. Here the plant is taken fom time through a sideways shift. This may not be sideways in terms of time, just whatever the time zone that the dimension running parallel to us is at at the same moment. Therefore the plant doesn't change.

I'm sorry about the pop. references, I am just not very good at explaining things, particularly my ideas and understandings, that well! It's best to stick with the easy stuff!

Stay cool! I'll see you in the past!


Timelord

 

[Guest]

You can bring this plant or whatever back to the future with you without upsetting a darn thing.

If you brought this plant with you back to the future the
"world" you return to will be the same as you left it. Lets say ten days before you even left to take this plant to the future you already took it. Your future self has already taken this plant from the past to the future. You were living in the produced world from this so called "time balance disruption" to begin with. You always have taken the plant to the future. This event has always been.

So in conclusion, we can have fun in the past without affecting anything because our future self has always done this even before we were born. HA top that!!