time machines

yea, thats what i was thinking today, lol. i thought about it alot, but only when im bored and i get bored fairly easy

might i suggest a book by stephen hawking:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/055380202X/qid=1021180578/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-7145162-0944001

Universe in a nutshell...
that should solve your troubles

also see:
The One
(starring Jet Li)
kinda weird...but it has
alternate universe type things

i'd have to say stephen hawking would
be more reliable than "The One" but
up to you.

stephen hawking, haha..lookins interesting though, ill look into it

actually...this just popped into my head after
reading some of that thread you posted earlier.

you see the movie is called "back to the future"
now the idiot that wrote the original screen play
must've known that he could rack millions off of
a repeatative plot due to the theory
"history repeats itself" so...he names it
'back to the future'

thus he sends the doc and the bunch to the 'past'
and they go BACK to the future...BUT since the movie that they
go to 'the future' is still called 'back to the future' you can
conclude that's the time period that they orignally came
from.

true, true...i see waht youre getting at..

man...stephen hawking couldn't come
up w/ that one in that stupid book...
maybe i should apply for his position

good luck :p

I dont know if this has been covered. So, I will just try to explain.

To understand why it would be that way, you have to understand time itself.

Time is basically a thread. Events in the past determine events in the future. So, by saying that because I did one thing I will do another is entirely feasable. Not that I cannot changes the future, but it has been pre-determined because of my past actions. One maynot be able to fortell the future, but you can "predict" it based on past events.

So, because "Marty" got into a car accident that hadn't happened yet, he became a failure. Because of his actions with his mother in 1955, he influenced the future. Just by kicking Biff's ass.

hey thats cool, nvr thought of it like that! Come to think of it never thought about it at all!

perhaps were in the past and the future has already happened?