XKCD rule: lame ass-party.

Or... isn't there the theory that time travel just creates an alternate world. but all timelines exist... so there's a second line where there's 50 people that brought their year 3000 band, and their instant ALS cure pod, partied with Hawking then arrested trump for his crimes before he could run for president.

Right? We only show up in some timelines as a fucking joke.

The strong weed and its effects hide me from temporal law enforcement.

Boomers are weak

Been there. Got like a dozen t shirts. Nobody on eBay thinks they’re real tho

This was a million and a half people vibing so hard they broke their government. I’m not missing it no matter how much of an asshole Lars Ulrich is.

Finally. Thank you. Someone thinking past the punch bowl.

Forget paradoxes, pathogens are the real problem. You don’t need to step on a butterfly to wreck the timeline; you just need a 21st-century rhinovirus and a handshake. Entire villages, gone. History rewritten by a sneeze.

Any responsible time traveler would be sealed head to toe. No exposed skin, no shared air, no hors d’oeuvres. Certainly no cake. You don’t know what yeast does to medieval Europe when it’s had a few centuries of upgrades.

Congratulations you took back covid19 and wiped out humanity.

I'd argue it's the other way around: The further you travel in the past the bigger becomes your impact on current times.

That ‘everything’s moving’ argument is a convenient shutdown, not a dead end. We already track motion precisely, GPS corrects for relativity every second. That means relative positioning isn’t unsolved; it’s restricted.

You wouldn’t target a spot in space. You’d target a worldline, like Earth’s continuous path through spacetime. Same path, different point.

Saying you’d end up in empty space assumes a cartoon machine that only changes the date. A real device moves you along spacetime itself.

So when people say time travel is impossible because there’s no reference frame, what they really mean is: you don’t have access to the frame that works. Not impossible. Classified.

Uh, why can't it be relative to the Earth's surface? We're already trapped in that gravity well after all, we don't drift off it because of normal time travel in real time.

May I introduce you to the concept of time travel in the time machine, where you are in a gravitationally bound dimensional pocket

Using "Knows how they work" while talking about goddamn time machines cracks me up every time.

It's like you're confidently arguing that the inside of a black hole is another universe where time runs backwards and dogs meow ;)

(For tonal clarity I'm not taking the piss, it's just funny when folk get really into a scifi topic and get all fanfiction about it)

Or that Austin Powers movie

I know one person IRL who was a frequenter of Little St John Island, aka Epstein Island. Wealthy man who made that trip regularly. He was not particularly attractive but he was wealthy. This is the place old wealthy men would go to get sexual satisfaction when nobody else will give it to them.

It's not like Hawking and Epstein traded a few emails talking about science, or had a one off meeting. It appears they had a fair amount of exchanges over a long period of time.

Epstein was a vile human in the worst kind of way and I see no evidence that Hawking was blind to this fact. Half the people on this app wouldn't willingly associate with someone of a different political party than them, but to defend a man who willingly spent time with a convicted sex trafficker? The fact that Hawking was paralyzed doesn't absolve him from willingly enabling (and potentially partaking in) child abuse and sex trafficking.

Are you implying he fucked?

wheelchair-bound

Dude was fully paralyzed. Come one. Are you really that desperate to attack someone? Guy is asking a valid question.

little ablist

Oh FFS, cut it out already with the "ablist!!" screeching

The guy literally can only move his eyes, he literally can barely do anything without a support staff. He can breathe on his own, he can think on his own, that's about it

He cannot be a pedophile is not being ablisi, it's being realistic.

He was there for a scientific conference that was organized there.