4003

Gordon Gekko · Sep 21, 2003

i just watched "the time machine" again.

say man continues to advance and we don't destroy ourselves, etc., what the hell will things be like in the year 4003?! obviously no one knows, but it's mind blowing to think about what the distant future might be like.

i will predict we DO develop a way to travel into the future. WE CAN DO IT RIGHT NOW. if one person stands "still" on earth and i travel on a fast rocket, i'm slowing time for myself (although not much), thus extending my life expectancy slightly further than the person standing on earth. what we need to do is find a way to travel at very, very high velocities.

for those that don't know, if you could have a velocity a large % of the speed of light, IN YOUR LIFETIME you could see what the future is like. it would not FEEL like you lived any longer, but you could fast forward into the future and see what it is like. i've discussed this before in another thread:

Quote from Gordon Gekko:

stu, when i said fast forward into the future, i didn't mean travel into the future. what i meant was, you could slow time for yourself to the point that when you came back to earth, many years would have passed. everyone you knew would probably be dead, but you could see what the future would have been like if you had died and not slowed time for yourself.

for clarification, in your point of view, your life feels like normal. to yourself, you don't feel like you lived 1000 years. you would still live as long as you normally would to yourself. if you could see what was happening on earth while you were close to the speed of light, everything on earth would be happening super fast.

here's an interesting idea based on what i just said. say we figured out how to do this..and say the human life expectancy is 100 years. you would still only live 100 years to yourself, but say you decided you wanted to live on earth every 100 years for 1 year. instead of living your whole life in earth time, you could skip ahead and live a total of 100 years throughout thousands of earth years of human civilization. that didn't come out right, so here...

it's the year 1999, live on earth til 2000. travel close to the speed of light for x amount of time, come back to earth in the year 2099. live on earth til 2100. travel close to speed of light for x time, come back to earth in 2199. live on earth til 2200. lol i hope you get my point here....