The Time Traveler Convention
May 7, 2005, 10:00pm EDT (08 May 2005 02:00:00 UTC) East Campus Courtyard, MIT 42:21:36.025°N, 71:05:16.332°W (42.360007,-071.087870 in decimal degrees)
OK, what's the catch?
In theory, such a convention is heavily promoted in the news\media\everywhere else.... So that the info about it 'survives' for a very long period of time.
As a consequence - the future people who actually master time, will be able to go back and attend this meeting.
So, in theory, when the convention is held - there will be people from the future. ;-)
First of all, I'm sorry I cannot be there.
Second - the idea is actually very interesting. If the upcoming convention will indeed attract real people from the future, then it means that future-past-present are on the same 'axis' [if I may express myself that way]. If there will be no people who are able to prove their future-origin, it means that:
- the event was not promoted well-enough; i.e. the future-people don't know about it
- future-past-present are not on the same 'axis'; which means that whenever one goes back into the past, a copy of the universe is created and all the changes occur there, leaving the original universe intact.
This would mean that Asimov's story called The end of eternity is false, because there is no need in people who control the 'forks' that occur in the timeline whenever something is changed in the past.
Either way, this convention is a great idea, that's why I'm writing about it on my site.
"I for one welcome our new time-traveling overlords" :-)
Barry Staes — 2005-05-05 11:35
If there will be no people who are able to prove their future-origin, it could also mean that:
- future humanoids dont want to go to the past to party. I wouldn't want to attend a party 10000th years ago you know.
gr8dude — 2005-05-06 07:29
That's true.
However, I believe this event is not a 'party', it's a historical gathering, that definetly is more important than a party with a bunch of students playing their music loud.
In other words, probably they will not want to come, but not because of the 'oldness'. There must be other reasons, such as fear of an attack from the government, or the awareness of the potential 'forks', etc.
Anyway, the 7th is on its way.