That's an interesting concept - quantum suicide CAN be made to act exactly
like time travel. The only question is, can you devise a machine that will
either instantly kill you or not hurt you whatsoever? Otherwise the machine
will probably turn you into a vegetable.
>From: GSLevy.domain.name.hidden
>To: everything-list.domain.name.hidden
>Subject: Re: Quantum Time Travel
>Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 17:41:12 EST
>
>Quantum time travel is very similar to Quantum suicide.
>
>Here is the recipe:
>
>Build a conditional suicide machine that instantly kills the user unless a
>particular set of conditions in the environment is satisfied. With
>"conventional" quantum suicide these conditions could be a winning lottery
>ticket for example. With time travel suicide, these conditions would be
>that
>prespecified factors in the environment should match the past to which we
>would like to travel to. How do we prespecify these factors? By entering
>them
>into the machine computer data base, either from memory or from an existing
>record (movie, audio.....). The more accurate the database in depicting the
>past, the closer you'll get to the desired world. Of course your
>recording/memory is subject to Heisenberg uncertainty limit and therefore,
>the past you'll get to will be slightly different from the one you come
>from...but since the past you come from is also subject to Heisenberg
>limit... it doesn't matter.
>
>Just as the Quantum suicide machine, the Quantum time travel machine would
>have to be supremely reliable. It's failure rate would have to be orders of
>magnitude less then the likelihood that the part of the universe that has
>been recorded in the machine database matches the recorded data. But of
>course this is just a problem for the engineers to worry about. :-) And if
>you not really careful, you may end up in a future Hollywood movie, 21st
>Century-Park, reenacting our time period and directed by a successor to
>Steven Speilberg.
>
>George Levy
>
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