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Old June 5th 18, 07:43 AM posted to sci.astro
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Default The Defeat of Reason in Fundamental Physics

How do you convince physicists that time travel to the future is an idiocy that is not even a valid consequence of Einstein's 1905 postulates (even if the postulates were true, "travel to the future" would remain idiotic)?

Thibault Damour: "The paradigm of the special relativistic upheaval of the usual concept of time is the twin paradox. Let us emphasize that this striking example of time dilation proves that time travel (towards the future) is possible. As a gedanken experiment (if we neglect practicalities such as the technology needed for reaching velocities comparable to the velocity of light, the cost of the fuel and the capacity of the traveller to sustain high accelerations), it shows that a sentient being can jump, "within a minute" (of his experienced time) arbitrarily far in the future, say sixty million years ahead, and see, and be part of, what (will) happen then on Earth. This is a clear way of realizing that the future "already exists" (as we can experience it "in a minute")." http://www.bourbaphy.fr/damourtemps.pdf

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