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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 119 points 10 months ago (7 children)

There's an innumerable number of reasons no one showed up, only one of which is that backwards time travel isn't possible.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's by far the most plausible but sure, if you ignore Ockham's razor, sure, it's only one of many explanations

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

More plausible than there being rules around time travel that involve not attending parties? I think not.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

One such possibility is that you can only travel to times where the device you're using to do so exists.

More like a time gate than an H.G. Wells-style machine, but still a workable model.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Tbf the important question is: assuming that backwards time travel is possible, will people attempt to the party. And there I would say, unlikely. And while I think backwards time travel is very implausible, the experiment itself proves nothing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I thought in your original reply you were saying the most plausible thing was that there must be no time travel. This reply suggests otherwise, which I agree with.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I still do not believe in time travel so I think the most plausible thing is there is no time travel. But assuming time travel was possible, there would still be no one on the party. This doesn't prove it but neither do I need any proof

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Maybe future people knew about his supposed ties to Epstein and didn't want to show up...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Exactly, they'd know a lot more accurately what happened too, which raises another point as to why no one comes back here - imagine gong somewhere that you know horrible things are happening to children but you can't say anything or save them because of the timeline..

Even if in the unlikely event Hawking didn't know about it talking to him and not saying 'that friend of yours epstine is a bad dude' would be unbearable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

For example maybe you need a working time machine at your destination, such that the earliest point possible to travel to is the moment the first time machine was switched on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

One of them that no one made a backup of the past.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I mean, maybe people did show up. Maybe he never told anyone else due to the implications.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

News of his attendance at someone else's party made all future time travelers give him a wide berth.