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

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