I learned most of it from my mother, who was a well respected dissident of the quantum physics world until she died in 2006. I'm not nearly clever enough to follow in her footsteps, but I learned enough to know that the reality of science is full of human failings. Often egos, headlines and research grants get in the way of real science. Nothing like a claim to allow the possibility of time travel to get yourself in the papers and help get the funding in.

Unfortunately the maths has assumptions built in that cannot yet be tested and that has made it become totally detached from reality, the maths becoming proof in of itself, even if it makes no logical sense. In any reasonable time, the idea would have been dropped and we'd just have to say we don't know yet. They need to take step back, go back to the real fundamentals and nail those first, otherwise they go sprinting off in all sorts of directions not knowing if the basis on which they are working is sound.

It sells books and makes good headlines but it isn't good science.

OMG I'd be a rich man if I could time-travel this back to my teen years. Those machines ate my financial health.

Pshaw.

That's a valid explanation for how your changing the past can skew the future timeline after the manipulation took place.

There's no such valid excuse for the simple act of going backwards in time landing you in a different parallel universe that is totally unrelated to the universe from which the time traveler left.

Kalle, you fail to grasp that that is what happens when you mess with time travel. If anything, we might see some answers to the fact that the past terminator movies (and tv show) should have created such a ripple that there should be paradoxes all over, and that the original movies time line would be long gone. If at the least, we can use it to show that the T3 timeline never existed in the first place since this happened before then.

I'm interested as always.

My only problem is the WAY busted time travel logic.

If he's sending the dude back in their timeline to save her, how can he arrive in a different timeline's past where she doesn't need saving and everything has changed?

Right?


RIGHT?

Doesn't look like a reboot to me.

I like the look of it. I don't want to see arnie pretending it's the 90s, but he's still that hero dad-type character to me, he always will be. Clint Eastwood deserves a rest and without him we don't have a true aging hard-ass. We never used to watch arnie films in the past for the story alone, even if he did appear in some greats. So if he's playing a role that makes sense, some time travel to set up inappropriate levels of mayhem in the modern world is passable because that's all that Terminator 2 did.

I'm in for the ride, i'll watch it with hope.

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I couldn't claim to be an expert. There have been several 'flash'es over the years. A few of them can travel faster than light, and thus time travel.

Not sure how much general relativity could play into such a thing. It is a comic after all.

Riker must have been on a time travel mission when he was an lieutenant

is a mutant power facilitating the time travel somehow

The title is direct from the old comic.

http://www.w3rkshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/XMen-Days-of-Future-Past-comic-cover.jpg

It was one of those really great issues because all of the X-men could, and were, getting murdered. Since it was an alternate future and blah blah, they could kill off characters like they never do.

Also hoping they make it pretty long. Time travel, huge cast, it could probably use the time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_Future_Past

It's an X-Men storyline from 1980, though it looks like they've made some significant changes (different time-traveling character, etc). I'm tentatively optimistic.