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Re: Time and Space Travel

Bigthink — Mon, 05 May 2008 02:20:56 +0100

The answer is:

Time and Space Travel exists.

Time Travel exists because we travel through time every moment of our lives, and we travel through space every time we move around.

Therefore, if on a small scale it is possible, we can assume that it is possible on a large scale. However, by the time we get to a stage where time travel is possible we will only go forward, never backward, purely because we are still discovering things, if backwards time travel was possible we would already know about it.

Re: If the Us government taxed marijuana what would be the best way to spend to

Bigthink — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:37:28 +0100

To legalise marijuana a government would have to have an extremely good reason, and there already is an extremely good reason for it to be outlawed.

Sure, some would say, "Legalise it, people are taking it anyway." But that's like saying, "Legalise murder, people are doing it anyway."

Even then, no one would really be in the right state of mind to think straight about spending tax money.

Despite the unlikeliness, I would say cancer research and environment friendly things.

Re: Do you ever feel like if you didnt have music in your life you couldnt live?

Bigthink — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:05:36 +0100

Always, if you think about it music is pretty much everywhere... I personally have music in my everyday life, I have been playing the piano since I was five years old so I really have no choice. But even after that, you get in the car and the radio is more often on than off... And most cellphones (or mobile phones) have music as their ringtone. Life would definitely be absolutely different if we didn't have music in our everyday life.

Re: why wont anyone really smart run for office?

Bigthink — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:50:39 +0100

The simple answer that not many people vote.

But the simple answer isn't what we're after, (because if we were after a a simple answer this would be smallthink.com) the real answer is that people don't vote for smarts, they vote for someone who they would trust in their home with their children.

So at first glance this may not seem to answer the question at hand, but it gives the answer that Smart people do run for office, they just don't get voted in.

Re: Expert or not.

Bigthink — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:16:29 +0100

The Oxford Dictionary defines an expert as "someone who is practised and or skillful in an area or subject." So we can clearly say that the Big Think "Experts" are not experts in all of the areas that they post in. It is clear, however, that they are "practised and/or skillful in an area or subject." The term expert as it is used in Big Think is not in reference to the area that the person posts in it is that they are a person who is recognised as an expert or smart person.

Re: Warp Drive, when?

Bigthink — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:59:17 +0100

When they find something faster than it.

Re: Backwards Time-travel

Bigthink — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:55:27 +0100

If it is possible you would have had to have been there in the first place, it would be similar to a pensieve in the Harry Potter series (experiencing your memories again.)

Otherwise you might accidentally kill an ancestor which would mean you wouldn’t exist and therefore not have been able to kill your ancestor, or anyone that hated you or had a falling out with you would simply go back and easily remove you from existance...

If time travel were to exist in the way it is displayed in Science Fiction than we would simply hand down the greatest ideas to someone years before they should figure it out, it would only mean that we would have to imagine something into existance because once we thought of it then someone would simply travel back and hand it to them.

This is my reason for thinking that the most popular idea of time-travel is in the category of Science Fiction, plainly because it is fiction.