Time Travelers Unite!!!

[C60]

I recently recived this in an email. I'm thinkin about going

 

Only at MIT

 

http://web.mit.edu/adorai/timetraveler/

 

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=B0N, 71:05:16.332=B0W

 

(42.360007,-071.087870 in decimal degrees)

 

What is it?

 

Technically, you would only need one time traveler convention. Time

travelers from all eras could meet at a specific place at a specific

time, and they could make as many repeat visits as they wanted. We

are hosting the first and only Time Traveler Convention at MIT in one

week, and WE NEED YOUR HELP!

 

Why do you need my help?

 

We need you to help PUBLICIZE the event so that future time travelers

will know about the convention and attend. This web page is

insufficient; in less than a year it will be taken down when I

graduate, and futhermore, the World Wide Web is unlikely to remain in

its present form permanently. We need volunteers to publish the

details of the convention in enduring forms, so that the time

travelers of future millennia will be aware of the convention. This

convention can never be forgotten! We need publicity in MAJOR

outlets, not just Internet news. Think New York Times, Washington

Post, books, that sort of thing. If you have any strings, please pull

them.

 

Great idea, I'd love to help! What should I do?

 

Write the details down on a piece of acid-free paper, and slip them

into obscure books in academic libraries! Carve them into a clay

tablet! If you write for a newspaper, insert a few details about the

convention! Tell your friends, so that word of the convention will be

preserved in our oral history! A note: Time travel is a hard problem,

and it may not be invented until long after MIT has faded into

oblivion. Thus, we ask that you include the latitude/longitude

information when you publicize the convention.

 

You can also make an absolute commitment to publicize the convention

afterwards. In that case, bring a time capsule or whatever it may be

to the party, and then bury it afterwards.

 

Can't the time travelers just hear about it from the attendees, and

travel back in time to attend?

 

Yes, they can! In fact, we think this will happen, and the small

number of adventurous time travelers who do attend will go back to

their "home times" and tell all their friends to come, causing the

convention to become a Woodstock-like event that defines humanity

forever.

 

Unfortunately, we of the present (2005) don't have time travel, and

so we only have one chance at observing the convention. If the time

travelers don't leave us their secrets, we won't be able to go back

in time and see our convention in all its glory unless it is

publicized in advance.

 

Isn't time travel impossible?

 

We can't know for certain. The ancient Greeks would have thought

computers were impossible, and the Phoenicians certainly wouldn't

have believed that humans would one day send a spacecraft to the moon

and back. We cannot predict the future of science or technology, so

we can only make an effort and see if any time travelers come to our

convention. If you would like to read more about time travel, check

out our reading list.

 

I'm from the future, and I'd like to attend!

 

We're not sure how you're emailing us from the future, but we'd love

to have you! Come as you are! No dress code whatsoever. We do request

that you bring some sort of proof that you do indeed come from the

future, and haven't just dressed like you do. We welcome any sort of

proof, but things like a cure for AIDS or cancer, a solution for

global poverty, or a cold fusion reactor would be particularly

convincing as well as greatly appreciated.

 

I'm from the present, and I'd like to attend!

 

Great! We would also love to have you, especially if you have helped

publicize. We request that you bring refreshments if possible, as we

need to make this a great party for you and for the time travelers.

RSVP at timetravelerconvention@gmail.com, and then show up at the

designated place at the designated time! The East Campus Courtyard is

in between the two red rectangles on this map. If you plan on

attending, PLEASE check this page frequently for updates.

 

I'm from the present, and I'd like to attend, but I can't!

 

No worries! If time travel is invented in your lifetime, you can

always come later. Even if it isn't, we'll have pictures and video up

at this site within a week after the Convention.

[-Demosthenes-]

You make me cry.

[Kindria2000]

Hahahah I remember hearing this on NPR. i thought it was pretty nifty, unfortunatly I have to go to a bridal shower tomorrow (the 7th) but I'm sure to be there In the future (bum bum bummmmm...)

 

But i thought that Enstien proved that time travel was impossible?

[MolecularMan14]

ya know, If I wasnt so far away, Id go...why not?

[Chatha]

There is a british body that has been battling with this idea for years. I don't think time travel is plausible and I would advice anyone to focus on other ideas instead. If it were, we would have been paid a visit by someone from the future by now. Secondly, such a device would mean two worlds. If it has already been made how do you expect to make it again amidst all the security around it. Finally, the universe is infinite in space and time so travelling in hyper speed will only take you to another far direction, not in the future or past.

 

Prove of the infinitum of the universe;

 

A=then B= now, X=something Y= nothing

Assuming that nothing comes out of nothing

 

A(X)B(Y) = anomally...1

A(X)B(X) = possible...2

A(Y)B(X) =anomally....3

A(Y)B(Y) = anomally....4

 

Equation 2 seems to be the best answer as we have something now. Since we have something now then matter and its inverse is infinite(space), then time is infinite because space permits. Good luck in your travels.

[Chatha]

Also a single moment is all that exists, there is no past or future, but the present. Not only will the machine have the potential for whopping speed, but also pretty much creating reality, sounds like a God to me. I once wrote a short sci fi novel about computers, and G.O.D being the ultimate computers of all computers. In it computers are living beings and have specie and sub species, with names such as "ignasus corpocaliea". Humans, in a bid to become more recognized implanted computer chips in their brain, PH.d's could be downloaded instantly. G.O.D was more than self aware, it ran the cities, weather, and even gave advise on love e.t.c. We had finally created GOD out of the long desire for one. Maybe this is where this time travelling is headed to.

[ydoaPs]

man, i missed it. or did i? anyone who went to it, was i there?

[-Demosthenes-]

HAHAHA, there were 4 or 5 versions of me there

The sad part is that we all go annually but its always the same convention, weird