There's no universal frame of reference. Any theoretical time travel would likely need a beacon of some sort to calibrate their arrival point, meaning you couldn't travel back beyond the point time travel was established.

I've seen this take a lot it feels like and it boggles the mind why. If someone figures out time travel they ipso facto will have figured out the space travel as well.

If you can travel through time you can travel through space.

lame-ass party

Since the time traveler would be from the future, he'd have already known that nobody went to the party.

Would you have missed Metallica in Moscow for some party you assumed nobody would attend? Fuck no.

Let's see... the egotistical pricks that sued anyone that wanted to like them... in an authoritarian shithole... or hanging out with Stephen Hawking...

Tough choice. Can I convince Lars to sleep in the disaster bed? Or help them with arrangements so that songs that have about 1 minute of interesting music don't have 8 minutes worth of filler?

My God... Is the fact that boomers think '60s weed was mind altering proof of time incursions from the dank future???

More pragmatically, time travel for a casual party would be risky because you’re carrying germs many generations apart. Time travelers would wear full-body suits or risk dramatically altering history. They could not drink or eat anything.

Half this comment thread legitimately knows how they work

The other half is speculation

The truth is in the middle, Lemmy people are pretty well versed in science fiction and science :>

What are the chances that visiting Steven Hawking is the most interesting/fun thing you can do, if you could freely time travel?

Not only that, apparently the machine he used to speak was rather difficult to use quickly, and drafting responses could take hours or days depending on how much needed said. Pretty much all of his appearances after he was unable to use his voice were heavily scripted ahead of time.

So unless you're visiting Steven Hawking when he still could talk, it'd be pretty boring as you couldn't have a proper back-and-forth conversation

I think his party would attract at least a few curiosity seekers.

On the other hand, it would likely include time travellers from various future eras, perhaps hundreds, or even thousands of years apart. Future time travel would have to be heavily regulated, to keep unauthorized people from screwing up the time line. So perhaps future time travellers are expressly forbidden from having contact with other time travellers, making Hawking's party the one place that time travellers are NOT allowed to visit.

Also, what if it uses a lot of resources and potential time travelers didn't want to waste them to go to parties (thus further progressing your hypothetical conundrum)?

Likely lots of people who had contact with Epstein did nothing wrong, at least not on that level.

He was collecting powerful people, in science, business, government, anything. One way to do that is to offer access to other important people. The ability to say to someone "I can connect you with Stephen Hawking" is currency.

The pedophilia ring and sex trafficking is the exact same thing -- just a way to appeal to certain people.

I think it's more interesting to talk about who the fuck gave Epstein a private island in one of the most stupidly expensive spits of sand on the entire planet. Likely the same people who killed him.

It's a little ableist to suggest that his being wheelchair-bound would necessarily prevent him from being a pedophile.

You can spend your entire life thinking about it and you Will never reach a definitive answer. Or, you can spend a day to set up an experiment and throw a party.

You're missing the point completely.

You do not actually know if "paradoxical consequences" are a thing. Logic might, like everything we believe right now, turn out not to be how the world works.

Stopping yourself from doing an experiment because "current knowledge makes it seem impossible" is how science never advances.

Hawking knew no one was going to show up. It was done as a sort of proof against it. He just thought it was more likely then the existence of god.

He wasn’t known for being a great guy, just a really smart guy.

The name of the late Cambridge physicist was included in a 2015 email in which Epstein told Maxwell to offer a reward to any of Giuffre’s “friends acquaitonts [sic] family” who could prove false an allegation that Hawking had participated in an “underage orgy” in the Virgin Islands. Hawking, who died in 2018, has not been accused of a crime related to Epstein.