Time travel doesn't exist because time travel wiped out the timelines where it did

[Stalker0]

Anyone else look at the paper? This about sums up the level of argument:

Which is also a somewhat faulty logic. The paper assumes that because a machine can have its lifetime extended from 10 to 20 years, its inevitable to extend it to 1000 years or infinite timespans.

But with every incremental step your faced with newer more complex problems, and you hit limits you didn’t previously know existed.

It might be possible…or it might be impossible and we just don’t know yet.

 

[The Firebird]

Which is also a somewhat faulty logic. The paper assumes that because a machine can have its lifetime extended from 10 to 20 years, its inevitable to extend it to 1000 years or infinite timespans.

But with every incremental step your faced with newer more complex problems, and you hit limits you didn’t previously know existed.

It might be possible…or it might be impossible and we just don’t know yet.

Yep, that was my point. The assumptions it uses are not well grounded.

 

[GMMichael]

I would prefer that by the time someone figures out how to do time travel they have also figured out that time travel is so dangerous and vile that its purveyors and all blueprints for it must be annihilated.

This is something AI would do. Humans like to hold on to their vile ideas.

Which reminds me - this whole analysis discards the Many Worlds interpretation, in which no timeline ever needs to be (or can be) eliminated at all...

I'm onboard. The (many) world in which a time traveler pops up out of nowhere (or in place of the air particles that were previously there) isn't non-existent. It's just way, way down on the probability scale, so no one's likely to ever detect such a thing, much less actually travel in time.

 

[Reynard]

I think we wake up.in a parallel reality everyday. It's just that the vast majority of them are so close to the one you fell asleep in you can't tell the difference.

But every once in a while you can sense it. Berenstein and all.

And very, very rarely, someone lands in one that doesn't track and they end up in the asylum.

 

[Richards]

I travel through time constantly. One minute into the future every 60 seconds, like clockwork.

Johnathan