• Shrubbery@piefed.social
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    3 days ago

    Being able to time travel implies he could also jump forward in time (e.g. to check his posthumous reputation).

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      3 days ago

      But why does Stephen Hawking not being able to time travel mean time travel doesn’t exist?

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      2 days ago

      Yeah…a time traveller would be able to jump forward less backward in time to check that.

      But Stephen Hawking wasn’t a time traveller, he just wanted time travellers to visit him.

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        2 days ago

        Well, all you need to do is travel at a significant fraction of the speed of light. That will let you fast-forward the rest of non-relativistic reality. Then it’s just a matter of slowing down again.