- JackGreenEarth ( @JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ) English74•4 months ago
There’s an innumerable number of reasons no one showed up, only one of which is that backwards time travel isn’t possible.
- wewbull ( @wewbull@feddit.uk ) English62•4 months ago
One of which is that Stephen Hawking threw a lousy party.
- jol ( @jol@discuss.tchncs.de ) English19•4 months ago
The other one is that most people haven’t herd of it, so I doubt the knowledge of this party will travel that far into the future.
- BossDj ( @BossDj@lemm.ee ) English36•4 months ago
Someone who put work and effort into developing time travel will have heard of it. Unless it happened after a complete destruction and rebuild of civilization or two.
- 👍Maximum Derek👍 ( @Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ) English20•4 months ago
We’re in one of the unlucky few possible resulting timelines in which no one showed. My friend from timeline 3f-1933847.12b told me that their party is still going. Every few hours more travelers turn up with a fresh keg, and whatever their generation’s party drug is.
- lugal ( @lugal@lemmy.ml ) English12•4 months ago
It’s by far the most plausible but sure, if you ignore Ockham’s razor, sure, it’s only one of many explanations
- el_abuelo ( @el_abuelo@lemmy.ml ) English6•4 months ago
More plausible than there being rules around time travel that involve not attending parties? I think not.
- Malgas ( @Malgas@beehaw.org ) English5•4 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.
- lugal ( @lugal@lemmy.ml ) English4•4 months ago
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
- el_abuelo ( @el_abuelo@lemmy.ml ) English1•4 months ago
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.
- lugal ( @lugal@lemmy.ml ) English2•4 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
- MonkderDritte ( @MonkderDritte@feddit.de ) English2•4 months ago
One of them that no one made a backup of the past.
- Cyborganism ( @cyborganism@lemmy.ca ) English41•4 months ago
Can you imagine if someone showed up and his party became ground zero for a worldwide pandemic of future diseases for which we don’t have cures yet?
- OldWoodFrame ( @OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee ) English35•4 months ago
Hawking gets a Covid sample from a time traveler in 2009 and immediately travels to the Wuhan lab to study it and look for a cure, he successfully delays the pandemic and he almost gets to a cure but a bad guy time traveler comes to kill him in 2018 and without the watchful eye of Stephen Hawking, the world falls to chaos.
I’d watch that movie.
- Test_Tickles ( @Test_Tickles@lemmynsfw.com ) English12•4 months ago
The bad guy would have to be the Mr Glass guy from Unbreakable, or otherwise the chase scenes would be really really short.
- Cyborganism ( @cyborganism@lemmy.ca ) English4•4 months ago
Hahahahaha oh man I’m going to hell for laughing at this.
- dependencyinjection ( @dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ) English4•4 months ago
Nice work there.
- wieson ( @wieson@feddit.de ) English2•4 months ago
It’s missing Harambe somewhere, but great so far
- lambalicious ( @lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ) English20•4 months ago
Correct me if I’m wrong:
I live in a timeline where time travel has not yet been invented. Even if someone invents it in the future and travels to the past to the party, that’d create an alternate timeline where the party is attended and civilization leaps bounds ahead in glorious post-scarcity, magical socialism fashion.
But nooooo since the timeline was forked at that point, no matter how many people do, in fact, attend the party, I’m stuck in the “strand” of the timeline when no one ever did because time travel has not been invented.
- TachyonTele ( @TachyonTele@lemm.ee ) English7•4 months ago
Eh, that’s more science fiction than actual theory.
- banana_lama ( @banana_lama@lemm.ee ) English5•4 months ago
Depends on how you see it. It could also be that for some reason or another even with backwards time travel no one shows up. And thus you avoid having a paradox
Or it could be like a time portal so once you build one you an travel back to any point it existed in but one to a point where it doesn’t exist since you need time travel infrastructure
- zaphod ( @zaphod@sopuli.xyz ) English20•4 months ago
The problem is he only told us when it was, but not where.
- Karyoplasma ( @Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ) English25•4 months ago
He did divulge the location afterwards.
- lightnsfw ( @lightnsfw@reddthat.com ) English16•4 months ago
Imagine having time travel and wasting it on going to some nerd party.
- Slovene ( @Slovene@feddit.nl ) English7•4 months ago
Well, it was a party, not an orgy.
- Dagwood222 ( @Dagwood222@lemm.ee ) English7•4 months ago
[off topic]
“The Big Time” by Fritz Leiber is one of my all time favorite novels. His time travel works on the principle of 'The Law Of Conservation Of Reality." There’s only one timeline, and it’s possible to change it, but it requires a lot of work.
If you go back and kill baby Hitler, he’ll come back to life and no one will remember anything. It takes vast armies fighting thousands of secret battles to change one thing. But when a Big Change hits, look out!
- higgsboson ( @higgsboson@dubvee.org ) English3•4 months ago
I’ve never read any Fritz Leiber, but he’s cited as a major influence by Zelazny (and Butcher, Donaldson, Stephenson, etc.)
Maybe today is the day I dig up and start reading Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser.
- Dagwood222 ( @Dagwood222@lemm.ee ) English2•4 months ago
Good place to start.
- Queen HawlSera ( @HawlSera@lemm.ee ) English5•4 months ago
A party with no bitches, just some nerd who doubts your existence and would spend time asking you stupid questions? No wonder no one came…
Plus it would likely be taboo to visit the past because of how easy it’d be to spread future germs and get everyone killed.
- flora_explora ( @flora_explora@beehaw.org ) English7•4 months ago
So you are apparently a time traveler from the past who still uses “bitches” to refer to women. A quick update, in this time and age this is considered sexist and you might want to get up to date with other expressions as well
- Queen HawlSera ( @HawlSera@lemm.ee ) English6•4 months ago
I mean bitches in a sex positive way. I’m a sophisticated cyberpunk transbabe looking to get some pre-historic lady fingers up in this cyborg snatch!
- flora_explora ( @flora_explora@beehaw.org ) English6•4 months ago
Haha so you are from the future then!!
- Queen HawlSera ( @HawlSera@lemm.ee ) English5•4 months ago
Yeah, the Simpsons is STILL going, it has gotten weird and subversive since Nancy Cartwright and Dan Castenella died, they won’t recast them because that’s taboo, but they won’t lead them end the series, so it’s now a bunch of avant garde silent art animations
- Notyou ( @Notyou@sopuli.xyz ) English2•4 months ago
They went avant garde silent art style instead of using AI to recreate the likeness of their voice? I would like to see such a future.
You must have figured out the AI legislation then, so what’s the answer?
- 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ ( @Kolanaki@yiffit.net ) English3•4 months ago
How would any time travelers have known about his party? Did he advertise it? Or did he assume he would invent the time machine? Maybe time travelers just went to a much cooler party where there were drugs and people other than Stephen Hawking.