Could Time Travel Kill Bitcoin?

[koelen3]

That would be so cool first of all!
Time travel, i always think of it sometimes!
Only if i could , i would just leave a message to myself , yes you must buy it , don't think
And there it is , am done

[manselr]

I would love to go to the future and see if we forked or not for once.

[sifter]

You should never travel back to a time where you existed.


That's my theory.

[RodeoX]

I'll have to check back with this thread when we all start time traveling.

[R2D221]

You should never travel back to a time where you existed.


That's my theory.

Why not? It would be interesting to meet myself.

[axel2078]

If time travel were possible, I wouldn't waste it on bitcoin.  There are so many things I would change or do differently. Wrongs I would try to make right. There is more to life than bitcoin.

[notbatman]

But this thread is about traveling backwards in time, which is impossible.

Are you sure?

If I can unmix a liquid then why not time?

[R2D221]

But this thread is about traveling backwards in time, which is impossible.

Are you sure?

If I can unmix a liquid then why not time?

Time is not a liquid, to begin with.

[MakingMoneyHoney]

If time travel were possible, I wouldn't waste it on bitcoin.  There are so many things I would change or do differently. Wrongs I would try to make right. There is more to life than bitcoin.

Though, true, and I have things I wish I had done differently, same as most.... big picture, I believe everything happens for a reason, even the crappy, and horrible stuff; it makes us who we are... and we were meant to be the people reading this forum this morning. Yes, I believe in the butterfly effect, and changing one thing, no matter how small and we wouldn't be who we are today exactly...

It's just fun to think about what ifs, sometimes... and it would have been nice to have a windfall of money, but then I wouldn't have done the work I did these last few years, and wouldn't know what I know now, and I wouldn't be working on what I'm working on today. Actually I can think of lots of things I wouldn't have done, and I'm really glad I didn't know about it back then because I really wouldn't have wanted that stuff to not happen.

[notbatman]

But this thread is about traveling backwards in time, which is impossible.

Are you sure?

If I can unmix a liquid then why not time?

Time is not a liquid, to begin with.

Are you sure?

"In this theoretical framework, it has been suggested that spacetime should be treated as a fluid." -- http://phys.org/news/2014-04-liquid-spacetime-slippery-superfluid.html

"Superfluid vacuum theory (SVT), sometimes known as the BEC vacuum theory, is an approach in theoretical physics and quantum mechanics where the fundamental physical vacuum (non-removable background) is viewed as superfluid or as a Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC)." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfluid_vacuum_theory

[R2D221]

"In this theoretical framework, it has been suggested that spacetime should be treated as a fluid." -- http://phys.org/news/2014-04-liquid-spacetime-slippery-superfluid.html

"Superfluid vacuum theory (SVT), sometimes known as the BEC vacuum theory, is an approach in theoretical physics and quantum mechanics where the fundamental physical vacuum (non-removable background) is viewed as superfluid or as a Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC)." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfluid_vacuum_theory

I said “liquid”, but your examples talk about “superfluid”. They certainly work differently.

Also, time being a superfluid still doesn't prove we can travel back in time.

[notbatman]

"In this theoretical framework, it has been suggested that spacetime should be treated as a fluid." -- http://phys.org/news/2014-04-liquid-spacetime-slippery-superfluid.html

"Superfluid vacuum theory (SVT), sometimes known as the BEC vacuum theory, is an approach in theoretical physics and quantum mechanics where the fundamental physical vacuum (non-removable background) is viewed as superfluid or as a Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC)." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfluid_vacuum_theory

I said “liquid”, but your examples talk about “superfluid”. They certainly work differently.

Also, time being a superfluid still doesn't prove we can travel back in time.

Perhaps the issue here is that the concept of "time" is an artificial one making both travel forwards and/or backwards impossible.

[R2D221]

Perhaps the issue here is that the concept of "time" is an artificial one making both travel forwards and/or backwards impossible.

Yes, that's why all this conversation about Bitcoin and time travel is hypothetical.

[gargantuar]

But this thread is about traveling backwards in time, which is impossible.

Are you sure?

If I can unmix a liquid then why not time?

Time is not a liquid, to begin with.

Are you sure?

"In this theoretical framework, it has been suggested that spacetime should be treated as a fluid." -- http://phys.org/news/2014-04-liquid-spacetime-slippery-superfluid.html

"Superfluid vacuum theory (SVT), sometimes known as the BEC vacuum theory, is an approach in theoretical physics and quantum mechanics where the fundamental physical vacuum (non-removable background) is viewed as superfluid or as a Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC)." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfluid_vacuum_theory

Interesting analogy.  Perhaps the fulcrum rests on the pointy part of delta S.  Figure out how to break or circumvent the law of entropy and perhaps you found the wormhole to time travel.  I have some wood putty, some dryer lint, and some liquid nitrogen.  When I succeed I will get back to you -- no pun intended. 

See you sooner!

[Sheldor333]

Imagine if someone got back from the future and mined most of bitcoins, he could get some equipment with him and for next to nothing mine BTC and increase it with time, so difficulty doesn't just all at once.

[Elwar]

Satoshi is from the future.

 

[BADecker]

I still think that time travel and space travel are significantly independent of one another, meaning that traveling in time would NOT also automatically cause space travel. I believe that if one time-traveled, he would also have to space-travel to get to the location in space where the time-events that he was looking for existed.

In other words, if you went back into the past 5 years from right now, there probably was nothing at all in this area of space yet. If there was, it certainly wouldn't be the solar system. An astronomer might be able to determine from star charts if there was something in this neighborhood of space back then.

The reality here is, we don't have the ability to do much of any space travel. So, how could we do the space travel to where the solar system was 5 years ago, on top of tunneling back into time?

Science fiction can be fun. But this isn't really fun science fiction. Why not? Because we all know that there is absolutely no way to do it. If there were some little scientific method available, the thought of doing this might be interesting. But since this kind of space travel is so extremely impossible for us, and since we don't have nearly the handle on time travel as we do on space travel, the known impossibilities make this whole idea depressing rather than interesting or exciting.

[R2D221]

In other words, if you went back into the past 5 years from right now, there probably was nothing at all in this area of space yet.

According to what frame of reference? There's not absolute position in space.

[BADecker]

In other words, if you went back into the past 5 years from right now, there probably was nothing at all in this area of space yet.

According to what frame of reference? There's not absolute position in space.

Galactic mass along with inter-galactic mass (to a lesser extent) provide the frame of reference. Five years difference is not long enough to move outside the scope of these reference frames.

[R2D221]

In other words, if you went back into the past 5 years from right now, there probably was nothing at all in this area of space yet.

According to what frame of reference? There's not absolute position in space.

Galactic mass along with inter-galactic mass provide the frame of reference.

Why this one? Why not the solar system frame of reference? What makes one more preferable than the other?