balderdash@lemmy.zip to Casual Conversation @lemm.eeEnglish · 6 months agoWhich will you choose: the future or the past?lemmy.zipimagemessage-square64fedilinkarrow-up191arrow-down111
arrow-up180arrow-down1imageWhich will you choose: the future or the past?lemmy.zipbalderdash@lemmy.zip to Casual Conversation @lemm.eeEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square64fedilink
minus-squarebstixlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·6 months agoYou can ask your future self stuff right now. You won’t get the answer until you answer it in the future, but the question is possible.
minus-squareNegativeLookBehind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoBut, you never answer it in the future
minus-squareZozano@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-26 months agoYes you can, just that the past you can’t hear it.
minus-squarebstixlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoAll answers are from the future, just like all photographs are of the past
minus-squareNegativeLookBehind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoBut all answers occur in the present.
minus-squarebstixlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-26 months agoI posted 19 minutes ago. Your answer came 1 minute ago. Your answer came from the future from the point in time of the question. This might seem stupid, but it’s the same point that Stephen Hawking used to prove that time travelling is impossible or something.
You can ask your future self stuff right now. You won’t get the answer until you answer it in the future, but the question is possible.
But, you never answer it in the future
Yes you can, just that the past you can’t hear it.
All answers are from the future, just like all photographs are of the past
But all answers occur in the present.
I posted 19 minutes ago. Your answer came 1 minute ago. Your answer came from the future from the point in time of the question.
This might seem stupid, but it’s the same point that Stephen Hawking used to prove that time travelling is impossible or something.