X-Message-Number: 22208 From: "John de Rivaz" <> Subject: Re More on Time Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 10:47:11 +0100 The notion of sending messages to the past as proposed by Mallett http://www.advance.uconn.edu/01091012.htm http://w4.lns.cornell.edu/spr/2002-04/msg0040840.html may be impossible beyond a small fraction of a second. But if longer negative durations are possible, then maybe we should look for anomalies. For example: If what N F Ferderov (Fyodorov) proposed http://www.venturist.org/fyodorov.htm , and has been discussed here by Mike Perry, is practicable and will happen, then clearly large amounts of information need to be gathered from the past. Could this be achieved or at any rate helped by sending messages to the past, assuming that the concept is meaningful? Gregory Benford's novel <Timescape> discusses this, and sending messages to the future in the factual book <Deep Time>. I would rather doubt whether humanity's obsession with genealogy is particularly helpful to the Ferderov project, but the LDS people seem to think (if I have got it correct) that they are helping their god do the job by compiling genealogical tables. But supposing just for a moment that it is in some way helpful and that the future can influence the past, maybe it is from the future where this compulsion comes. -- Sincerely, John de Rivaz: http://John.deRivaz.com for websites including Cryonics Europe, Longevity Report, The Venturists, Porthtowan, Alec Harley Reeves - inventor, Arthur Bowker - potter, de Rivaz genealogy, Nomad .. and more Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=22208