Wormholes and time travel

[Harpo]

........ghosts in historical costume though?

 

[Interference]

........ghosts in historical costume though?

Personally, see no reason why not. Even interacting with them might be possible. Replays of a cosmic tape loop caught up in the granite - just realised I can't spell granate (or grannut, for that matter) - is one proposed explanation, but time slips aren't cosmologically impossible. Spacetime is a whole bunch of stuff. I hate to harp on about things we all know, but if we did meddle in our own history, even the history of our planet, would it matter a jot in cosmic terms? Seriously, I doubt it. Some say "There must be safeguards", but whom will these safeguards protect? A bunch of carbon-based organisms whose time on this planet and contribution to the Universal All is as important as the next word I type.

 

[ghost8772]

historical costume? maybe, maybe not. after all fashion trends ARE cyclical.

 

[Dave]

historical costume? maybe, maybe not. after all fashion trends ARE cyclical.

Hmmm! Maybe, it's an interesting proposition you make. Ladies dressed in green are common ghosts in Scottish castles - maybe this is a fashion trend of the future? But I think I can bring down your argument with the ghosts dressed in suits of armour - I'm not sure that they will be the de rigueur clothing for future time travellers.

 

[ghost8772]

well another supposition could be time travellers taking an effort to arrive surreptitiously, so they DO travel in era clothing, but need to have their machine calibrated. maybe several attempted trips that drift the traveller into then back out of where they were supposed to go, but at the wrong time. once they make it to the correct time they are either commited forever. they die in that time or something like that. operating backwards in time though makes it that they are sighted sfter their death on their journey backwards. like I said in the original post, to many ideas/theories/possibilities on what might happen if persons had the technology to travel at will through time.

Of course the possibility that one would end up in hard vacuum with the earth being light years away because they didn't travel in space during their travel in time must be considered also.