Is 'Looper'-like Time Travel Possible? Scientists Say Maybe

quote author=Lisa Wolfe link=topic=31384.msg246367#msg246367 date=1349144362

Hi Volitzer!

How do you know that temporal repossession would take place?

You would have to read Alec NeWald's book Co-Evolution. The Havenites are the ET race that George Noory talks about who time travel back to our time to integrate human DNA into their gene pool.

Time travel has never successfully been accomplished, right?

By the Havenites it has. Not by humanity.

It seems to me that two objects CAN occupy the same place, but at different times.

This is true but in temporal mechanics you cannot have 2 of you in the same time/space. If I were to go back to June 8th 1972, there lies a real good risk of the "baby-Volitzer" being sucked into a vortex and appearing here in 2012 and me being stuck back in June 8th 1972. This is why when the Havenites time travel they never travel within their lifetime. It is always thousands or millions of years and each time-trek has to be documented so if a Havenite came back to say today 10/2/2012 and collects eggs from a woman, that he doesn't make the mistake of traveling here again at the same point in time and undoing his work earlier, by showing up again and having his first be repoed into the future before collecting the eggs.

Say you had a house on a lot. You decided to move the house someplace else, leaving the lot vacant. A few years later, you decide to move the house back again, to the same dang lot! That is essentially what time travel is all about, right? Multiple versions of the same thing existing in the same space, but at different times!

What you did here was leave the lot empty for 3 years. Think of what it would be like if you tried to put a new house there while the old house was still there. One of them would lose out. This is how time-traveling in your own lifetime would work out too.