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http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/webcasts/realtime/

The terrors of time travel.

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I'd like someone here explained me the Einstein-Podolski-Rosen one. Anyone ?

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I can't, but it sounds smart.

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well you could try..

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I cannot my self but i found this. :D
http://www.mth.kcl.ac.uk/~streater/einsteinpodolskirosen.html

Turns out to be intersting read. :|

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euh, what has that to do with time-traveling? :S

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Well it deals about quantum mechanics.
And you want to know about that to make time travel "real"

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i am not into that scene ;) I have no clue what quantum mechanics actually do. Reminds me somehow of a number 4... :D

Anyway, when i think of time traveling. I think of wormholes and the like. I think of the paradoxes that come with it. I think time machines can be invented since humans are just curious. Yet i don't think its really possible to change something, and get back so you notice the difference. Since, if you make that change, you actually change your own feature and perhaps cause you won't be born and never invented the time machine, etc.. etc...

what is also mind blowing, is parralel time lines. I sort of imagine a big array:

world[width][height][depth][time][line]

... would take ahuge amount of mem :D

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EPR ? well, i heard it in a qm lecture, but i'm quite sure i'm with the >95% of the students who havnt really understood what the prof wanted to say :) the only thing I remember that it had something to do with the bell inequalities. although i'm not 100% sure, gotta google too

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To be honest I don't think changing the past will affect you. If time is simply viewed as another point on a 4 dimensional plot, you'll change the past but the future will be changed. You, however, are considered part of the time you are in now, because that is where you are.

If you changed the past and it affected you, then it would change you. That change would therefore affect everything, including the changes you were making. This could involve you not changing anything at all, as in the case of you not being born at all and therefore not being able to affect the changes and therefore being born.

Check out the link I posted, it's very entertaining. :(