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May 03, 2005

Get there early!

Students at MIT will be holding the Time Traveler Convention on May 7th. Here are the details:

  • May 7, 2005, 10:00pm EDT (08 May 2005 02:00:00 UTC)
  • (event starts at 8:00pm)
  • East Campus Courtyard, MIT
  • 42:21:36.025°N, 71:05:16.332°W
  • (42.360007,-071.087870 in decimal degrees)

The students reckon that they'll only need one convention because, after all, all time travelers will be able to attend on this day anyway. If no-one from the future shows up then I guess that means time-travel is indeed impossible. Or does it?

Posted by Matthew at May 3, 2005 12:35 PM

Comments


The flaw is that it's plausible that time travel is only possible back to the point at which it is invented. It solves a lot of potential paradoxes I think.

So you can have conventions after the invention of time travel, but not before.

(Of course what happens to society at that point is something it's probably best not to think about too much.)

Posted by: Colin Coghill at May 4, 2005 02:18 AM