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April 26, 2005
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The Time Traveler Convention, if successful, will be held again at exactly the same time. |
Time traveler attends "once in a lifetime event" for the third time
Temporal Junction 7a, TIMELINE 13 (After Press Release) -- LWN caught up with temporal tourist Arnold Spex at his Timeline 13 home as he prepared once again for the upcoming Time Traveler Convention on May 7, 2005. Spex will be attending the once in a lifetime event for the third time.
"The first time I went, the con was a bit overwhelming," Spex admitted. "Having 1.3 billion attendees converge on a single Boston weekend was totally crazy. The con committee had to refold the local spacetime sheet six times, and we were still spilling over into adjacent timelines. I just wasn't ready for it, so I spent most of the con buying souvenirs in the dealers' room and filking about 23rd Century pop culture.
"The second time I went, I ran into an old buddy at the registration table. We hadn't seen each other since we'd toured Victorian England together back in fourth grade, so we had a lot of catching up to do. Before we realized it, the con was half over and all the good panels were totally full."
Spex paused to close his suitcase of period costumes and role-playing game miniatures before adding, "This time I'm ready to do the con right. The 21st Century had better watch out for me!"
Spex then stepped timidly downstairs to ask his mother for the keys to the time machine. "Pleeeeeease, Mom? Dad said I could go to the conference if I finished all my homework."
"That silly conference again? This has got to be your sixth time there."
"No, it's just the third."
"I was just about to use the machine to get some sliced dodo for next week's lunches. Can't you wait until I get back?"
"Well...if you return fifteen minutes before you leave, the time machine will be available for me to use right now." There was a loud popping sound from the garage. "And there you are! Bye, Mom!"
"Bye," said Spex's present-mom, waving from the kitchen.
"Bye, Mom!" Spex called again.
"Bye," said Spex's future-mom, emerging from the garage with a bundle of groceries.
"And wear a sweater this time," both moms called out together. "If you catch another one of those 21st Century colds, you'll only have yourself to blame."
Disclaimer: This story probably isn't true, names have been changed, and any quotes are most likely made up.
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Comments
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Posted by: tobot at May 2, 2005 12:12 AM
wonderful.
i can't sleep so i'm sitting up reading this. i can't tell if it's tripe or diamond.
Posted by: wonderful at May 2, 2005 12:54 AM
Would be a bit of fun, but Time Travel is
SCIENCE FICTION
and not posible, unless you pile theories upon theories.
Also, the 'time traveller's party' has been done before hehe
Have fun though!
Posted by: Real Life at May 2, 2005 01:52 AM
Posted by: Time Traveller at May 2, 2005 04:42 AM
Hello, I'm from the past. Anyone from the future out there?
Posted by: Past guy at May 2, 2005 07:04 AM
I would like to attend, but my family doctor has advised that Boston Ma, 2005 is too toxic to be visited safely. Please reschedule for an earlier or later century.
-Horo Horo
Posted by: Horo Horo at May 2, 2005 12:29 PM
I attended the convention just a few minutes ago. Extremely boring! The only people there were 16 versions of myself, the host, and some lady named Karen who insisted that all attendees were required to purchase drinks for her. I quickly left. I would have no intention of returning but evidentally I have changed my mind 15 times in the future. I guess I will just have to wait and see what could possible inspire me to return...
Posted by: Aphrod Beetlebrox at May 2, 2005 01:48 PM
It's irresponsible to hold this convention. You could cause a paradox that would disrupt the Space-Time Continuum. Any decent time traveller would resist the opportunity to show up...plus I'm sure Timecops wouldn't allow it.
Posted by: Anonymous at May 2, 2005 04:04 PM
What if I attend and see many people who act like they are from the future but really are not? It would be a sort of time envy head game.
Posted by: SparkyPine at May 2, 2005 05:27 PM
Just a note
The time difference of two events with respect to K1 does not in general vanish, even when the time difference of the same events with reference to K vanishes. Pure " space-distance " of two events with respect to K results in " time-distance " of the same events with respect to K. But the discovery of Minkowski, which was of importance for the formal development of the theory of relativity, does not lie here. It is to be found rather in the fact of his recognition that the four-dimensional space-time continuum of the theory of relativity, in its most essential formal properties, shows a pronounced relationship to the three-dimensional continuum of Euclidean geometrical space. In order to give due prominence to this relationship, however, you must replace the usual time co-ordinate by an imaginary magnitude proportional to it. Under these conditions, the natural laws satisfying the demands of the (special) theory of relativity assume mathematical forms, in which the time co-ordinate plays exactly the same role as the three space co-ordinates. Formally, these four co-ordinates correspond exactly to the three space co-ordinates in Euclidean geometry. It must be clear even to the non-mathematician that, as a consequence of this purely formal addition to our knowledge, the theory perforce gained clearness in no mean measure.
Good Luck ye all
Posted by: Dan Morris at May 2, 2005 06:47 PM
Actually he has a good point. Given the speed of the sun's motion through the galaxy, and our own galaxy's motion relative to others, "time travel" would probably not be nearly as much a pain in the ass as actually getting back to the exact coordinates the earth was at a particular time. So you can just picture some geek from the future engaging his time machine to go back 200 years only to explode violently in the cold, sucking vacuum of outer space. This is why if someone showed me a machine they claimed could travel through time, I would say, "you first".
Yeah I know people don't actually explode in a vacuum. But I like the imagery.
Posted by: Varchar at May 2, 2005 08:45 PM
WE ARE MEDICAL DOCTORS FROM INDIA WHO FIRSTLY PROMOTED ''NANO TECHNO CITY'' IN KERALA,INDIA . ONE OF THE HIGHLY CONTRSVERSIAL PROJECT STILL IN PROCESS. TIME TRAVEL IS A GREAT THING AND IT WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE. DR ARUN & DR AJITH . TEL:++91-471-2310179
Posted by: DR ARUN & DR AJITH at May 3, 2005 10:03 AM
Read up on John Titor
Posted by: me (past tense) at May 3, 2005 04:36 PM
I saw the slashdot story on this event, and heard you on NPR's "All Things Considered" last night. Great to hear you getting publicity.
Also, I posted a short announcement here with your URL, hoping it gives you more attendees:
http://www.oglethorpe.edu/apps/webwiz/forum/forum_topics.asp?FID=2
Posted by: Ben Bradley at May 3, 2005 07:40 PM
All very good sentiments but everyone posted here has forgotten what they all said next year when we gathered at the SECOND convetion, 'same time last year, and to hell with the space time continuum, have another pan-galactic gargle blaster'
See you all again last week.
Posted by: Paul at May 3, 2005 07:45 PM
Just jumped back to the day before again to rent a tux. This time I am going to ask for a receipt for my hat. It was tough going through all those other my hats there to find the one that was mine/now.
Posted by: Aphrod Beetlebrox at May 6, 2005 10:45 PM