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Originally Posted by MexicanOnABike
let's say they were you make time travel possible in 1000years, then the timetraveler would have millions of years to visit. you think they would choose 2007 and be careless enough to tell everyone who and what they are? i think if it's possible, you wont ever hear anything about it.
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I get your point, but as I see it, there is an infinite amount of future, and a finite amount of past. In other words, every moment in history could theoretically be crawling with time travellers
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Originally Posted by MexicanOnABike
Is anyone familiar with Galactus form Marvel comics? He was a creature left over from the last big crunch. If God exists, it seems reasonable to assume that he has amassed such power because he doesn't age. In the bible, god is described as being without beginning. That would be one metaphor for an entity that has existed since before this incarnation of the universe. If I were such a creature, I might want to use my power to expand my understanding of evolutionary development to better understand my past. That being the case, I might want to experiment ans stifle the development of some intelligent species, and accelerate others. Theism could be an attempt to stifle us.
In other words, the god entity could be as easily from the past as the future. If you prescribe to the idea of circular time, that the universe repeats itself after every big bang, our answer could be one and the same.
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I'm very familiar with Galactus (love the celestial figures in the Marvel Universe), and this is also a very interesting idea. As Galactus is portrayed, he could easily take the role of any God on earth, and nobody would be the wiser. Have you read Earth X? ***********SPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERS**********Alex Ross' interpretation is that the Celestials crafted superhumans as a defence against Galactus. Earth's antibodies, as it were.***********SPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERS********** I guess any being could be "God", not just our own time travellers
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Originally Posted by Toaster126
I don't remember why I'm thinking this, but I read something along the lines of if time travel was possible, it would only be able to move toward the future. Has anyone read anything along those lines?
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We're all always moving into the future, one second at a time
Maybe your thinking of the classic twin expample?
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One twin stays on Earth, the other hops onto a spaceship travelling at near-light speed. As you velocity approaches that of light, time slows relative to an observer standing still. So if the twin on the spaceship travels around for twenty years (as observed from Earth), the twin on Earth would have aged twenty years, while the twin on the spaceship would hardly have aged at all. To him, it would appear as if he travelled twenty years into the future.