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In the year 3000 what will be the average life expectancy of humans?
Will humans ever be able to travel forward and backward in time?
Is there life elsewhere in the universe?
FRINGE QUESTION #1
In the year 3000 what will be the average life expectancy of humans?
POST DATE: February 2, 1997
In the year 3000 it is not likely that we will have to worry about life expectancy because as a species we are probably not going to be around. If we follow our current path of resource consumption and domination of the natural world it is in all likely-hood that we will have "already shot ourselves in the foot" as a species.
Jamie
POST DATE: July 23, 1996
If what we know now is put to use the life span should be from 300 to 400 years. But do we really want this? That is the real question. It might generate more problems than we already have.
Warren
FRINGE QUESTION #2
Will humans ever be able to travel forward and backward in time?
POST DATE: November 20, 1996
This question is confusing . If we go back in time to the past we would change the future. If we went to the future we would change the further future. I don't think we could ever find correct technology to go back through time. It sounds impossible.
Joe
POST DATE: July 5, 1996
Relativity is quite clear. There is no distributed "present" in space. Ergo:- There is no "then" place to which you could return.
In relativity, each present is "local" and a superposition of other more distant "presents".
Light experiences no time.
To a photon that left some Galaxy 3 million years ago to strike your eye, you and a slice of three million years ago "occur" in the same moment. Its more like light *is* time. Something that causes change yet does not experience change.
These Euclidean constructs of space, with the "present" being like a surface between future and past - is just a convenient illusion that we use to hang together relationships ... in language and nothing more.
John
FRINGE QUESTION #3
Is there life elsewhere in the universe?
POST DATE: November 20, 1996
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