Tralfaldamorian ideology

[GHoSToKeR]

so now we're getting into philosophy, eh? lol

[GHoSToKeR]

by the way, zarathustra, may i ask how old you are? and where are you from?

[zarathustra]

The oldest arguments are usually the best. If I know I know nothing, does that make me wiser that he who knows noithing believes he knows more? How do I know I know nothing? Am I a man or a butterfly dreaming I'm a man? You could spend your life pondering one question.

[zarathustra]

Sorry, I missed yer post. I am an 18 year old freshman at the University of Michigan. Yourself?

[GHoSToKeR]

The oldest arguments are usually the best. If I know I know nothing, does that make me wiser that he who knows noithing believes he knows more? How do I know I know nothing? Am I a man or a butterfly dreaming I'm a man? You could spend your life pondering one question.

lol so true.. but i guess, you have to draw the line somewhere lol

when im high and alone, say at home, i usually spend a long time thinking over one thing.. sometimes i get the impression that nothing is what it seems, and that im not even really there at all, and that im not even thinking the thoughts that im thinking.. then i realise that the conclusion i just made was also a thought, and that maybe i didnt really come to any conclusion, because im not really there to have that thought.. thats usually the point when i start to blither and blabber and foam at the mouth lol

oh, and im a 17 year old living in Jersey, the Channel Islands, UK

[Mole2k4]

Thanks to ghost for clearing up the "M" theory,
theoretically, it's one that makes sense, there was several theories, that all disagreed with the other, but none of them actually made sense until the "M" theory came into play, which actually fitted them all, and was mathematically possible.
As for the marble, what happens though if you keep picking it up at EXACTLY the same point, it never goes past that position, so therefore, is it possible it could go there?
Theoretically yes, but because of your intervention it never does.
No-one cares where I'm from or how old I am

[GHoSToKeR]

mole.. how old are you and where are you from? LOL



And yes, i know that M theory has been refined, disproved, changed, disproved again, modified over and over blah blah blah, i was just saying that it is still widely frowned upon and seen to be highly theoretical, if not unbelievable. But it can be mathamatically proven, like you said, and it does fit in with alot of other theories, plus it does bring us closer to reaching Einsteins "theory of unification", unifying Quantum Mechanics with General Relativity, which he never achieved...

[zarathustra]

OK, how about this, what if the way you affected the past prevented you from going back, like knowing you were going to be burned for being a witch because you showed up in a time bubble? Actually, in the end, you would have sill only lived one life, you just chose to live in a different time. In a sense, like in a couple of Ghost's and my explanation, times are more like positions, so it'd be like you moved to Japan.
By the by, how old are you and where are you from?

[GHoSToKeR]

hmmm

the way i see it, is if we were able to go backwards and forwards in time, than its almost like creating another universe, or creating a parallel time line to that of the universe.

what i mean is this. if i born in the year 2000, and then in the year 2020 i went forward in time 30 years to the year 2050, i would still only be 20 years old. but someone born on thje same day as me but didnt travel in time, would be 50 years old. so, just because we could travel forwards or backwards in time, it doesnt mean we would have to go back to when we left our original time line.. i hope that makes sense

another thing, matter cannot be created or destroyed.. the combined weight of the universe has been the same since the dawn of time. so, if i was to go back in time, there would be one time line where a whole person just vanished, and another time line where i didnt vanish.. what would be the consequence? what would replace me in the original time line? would it be dark-matter or anti-matter or what? lol

[Mole2k4]

heh, 21 from london, and im just winding people up lol.
I was thanking you ghost for naming the theory with the dumb name i couldnt think of.
Yeah but zara, you don't know your going to be burned or whatever, because you already died, and you don't keep memories.
I dunno, but, if you go back in time, surely your original birth is in the future, regardless of position?
Maybe it's because I've been at the pub for ages before hand, I dunno.