Who is John Titor?
Why, a time traveler from 2036 who came back in time to retrieve an IBM 5110 computer that his grandfather worked on in 1975. He then "jetted" to 2000, where he posted to some newsgroups before zipping back to the future.
And no, this guy was not played by Kevin Spacey in a movie. 8)
This guy is a crackpot, but the read is very entertaining.
One things that he talks about is the "fact" that the multiverse theory is correct and prevents any paradoxes in time travel.
What is the multiverse theory? Simply put that whenever something, some event, some decision, can go either way, it actually goes ALL ways, creating several different universes, each one slightly different than the rest. That's right, if multi-verse theory is right, somewhere, somehow, I am actually writing an entertaining blog...
It's a real theory and it's been great fodder for all kinds of science fiction for decades. How do I envision this? I think that if it is true, we must look like a plinko piece falling through time, with each decision possibly making us branch from our current "worldline" to a different one.
The fanciful question then becomes... "what if...?"
Is that why people make such a big deal out of "free will"? That our choices allow us to switch universes? With all due respect to sliders (a good TV show, if you ask me), would that be a marriage of theism and scientific skepticism?
Imagine, the mandate to "do good" is not an abstract, and not something that can be "made up" after the fact. But, at each decision of your life, good decisions or bad decisions cause your current consciousness to branch to a different universe, just slightly off from the one you had been on, and different from the universe you would be in if you had made a different choice.
Kinda puts a little pause in ones step, doesn't it?
-Ed
And no, this guy was not played by Kevin Spacey in a movie. 8)
This guy is a crackpot, but the read is very entertaining.
One things that he talks about is the "fact" that the multiverse theory is correct and prevents any paradoxes in time travel.
What is the multiverse theory? Simply put that whenever something, some event, some decision, can go either way, it actually goes ALL ways, creating several different universes, each one slightly different than the rest. That's right, if multi-verse theory is right, somewhere, somehow, I am actually writing an entertaining blog...
It's a real theory and it's been great fodder for all kinds of science fiction for decades. How do I envision this? I think that if it is true, we must look like a plinko piece falling through time, with each decision possibly making us branch from our current "worldline" to a different one.
The fanciful question then becomes... "what if...?"
Is that why people make such a big deal out of "free will"? That our choices allow us to switch universes? With all due respect to sliders (a good TV show, if you ask me), would that be a marriage of theism and scientific skepticism?
Imagine, the mandate to "do good" is not an abstract, and not something that can be "made up" after the fact. But, at each decision of your life, good decisions or bad decisions cause your current consciousness to branch to a different universe, just slightly off from the one you had been on, and different from the universe you would be in if you had made a different choice.
Kinda puts a little pause in ones step, doesn't it?
-Ed
posted by Ed at 12:32 PM
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