# TIME TRAVEL (Again) **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 31, 2000, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-again/9739 "2000-03-31T15:22:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Vestal\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@Vestal\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vestal_Blue)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-again/9739/21 "2000-04-04T16:52:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by malaka: > \*\*Vestal Blue & purplebear, > > One problem with Time Cop: How come sometimes, he can travel back in time to the exact position he needs to be (materializes in the 10th story office of the bad guy), and sometimes he has no control at all (falls 30 feet into the East River or in front of a speeding truck)? > > Other than that, great movie!! > > \*\* ## Artistic License. Here’s another one for you; why do they need a rocket propelled car to get there, and just an electronic gizmo to get back? where is the car while they’re there? If you can ignore the inconsistencies and take it at face value, it’s a good movie. VB Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well. ---
**Author:** ![sharkboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@sharkboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sharkboy)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-again/9739/22 "2000-04-04T20:39:00Z")
Time travel IS possible and proveable. We are all travelling time at the moment, only we are all going the same direction and at the same rate. And so far we can’t alter it (except by watching soap-operas which makes time drag interminably!) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-again/9739/23 "2000-04-04T20:51:00Z")
another problem with timecop… why is it that when the same matter occupies the same space, it turns into this messy slop of goo? and since we’re on the subject of time travel movies, is it true that you can’t travel back in time with clothes on? (going back to the terminator movies) ---
**Author:** ![JLPicard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/858c86/32.png) [@JLPicard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JLPicard)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-again/9739/24 "2000-04-04T20:57:00Z")
There is a theoretical way to time travel. Imagine that your life is like a shoestring. You are born at one end and you die at the other. Now if it’s laid flat you travel until you reach the end. But if you bunch it all up, then each point of your life is touching another point in your life. So, theoretically, If you were to step into a quantum accelerator you could LEAP through time. Theoretically you would awake to find yourself trapped in the past. Facing mirror images that weren’t your own and each time hopping your next leap would be the leap home. I’ve heard their working on this in a mountain in New Mexico. 😃 * * * Bad spellers of the world… UNTIE ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-again/9739/25 "2000-04-04T20:59:00Z")
I can’t believe that nobody has thrown in the whole Multiverse bit that is becoming so vogue among my friends. With an infinity of universes to choose from, you’re bound to find one similar to yours only two hundred years younger. If you’re a short, arrogant megalomaniac with a weenie shaped like a seahorse, what better place to start out your career? And if your many-great-grandfather dies on his way back from Moscow, who the hell cares? It’s not your universe, after all. In fact, I see evidence of this all the time. I believe that the vast majority of universes out there don’t have a cold beer sitting next to my computer. But this one, most fortunately, does. I think I’ll finish that beer, hop into my personal helicoper and fly off to the Automat for some protein sticks, just as soon as I get approval from the giant mechanical computer that runs all of our day-to-day affairs. ---
**Author:** ![Mac007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9a28c/32.png) [@Mac007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mac007)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-again/9739/26 "2000-04-04T21:22:00Z")
The problem with time travel is that it’s based on a false premise. Time is not a reality but rather a point of reference we use to facilitate our daily lives. There is no past to go back to and the future does not exsist yet. Possibly one day it may be possible to put oneself to sleep cryogenically and wake up years hence. The only problems are there would be no going back and you would have to adjust to a whole new culture and all your relations would be older or dead. If however time travel into the past were possible you could not interact with it in any meaningful way. Once you changed things the reason to go back would be gone and so you wouldn’t go back in time which would mean what you changed would revert to it’s original state and you’re back to square one. Since however the past is basically a convention we don’t have to worry about that. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![ignatiusjreilly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/2acd7d/32.png) [@ignatiusjreilly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ignatiusjreilly)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-again/9739/27 "2000-04-04T22:39:00Z")
I too am from the future. In fact, my name used to be Napoleon. And you know who else is from the future? Ronald McDonald and the CEO of Southwest Airlines - Herb whatisname. Thank you and good night! ---
**Author:** ![purrplebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90ced4/32.png) [@purrplebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purrplebear)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-again/9739/28 "2000-04-05T03:14:00Z")
malaka and microshroom, I agree that you both brought up good points. That notwithstanding, I just really liked the movie, especially the human interest and the trying to do good and destroy evil. There are many inconsistencies in the movie, but I can ignore those, and take the movie at face value and just enjoy it. I have no idea why teh same matter occupying the same space would turn to messy goo, but I think the point was more just that it can’t be done without dire consequences, rather than what actually happens in such a case. No one, to my knowledge has done time travel, so it is all guessing anyway. * * * You sing in my consciousness like a counterpoint to my life. L.L. That’s my name, not a description. I am neither purple nor a bear. Okay, so I’m purple.\ ---
**Author:** ![purrplebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90ced4/32.png) [@purrplebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purrplebear)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-again/9739/29 "2000-04-05T03:20:00Z")
_sigh_ fumblefingers strikes again! That should say why 'the’same matter. \ * * * You sing in my consciousness like a counterpoint to my life. L.L. That’s my name, not a description. I am neither purple nor a bear. Okay, so I’m purple.\ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-again/9739.md?page=1)