Is time travel possible

[Miss Moonlight]

Sure. All you need to do is build a flux capacitor and then learn quantum physics.

Edit: wow, i'm stupid, I had originally posted 'flex' .. lol

[Bjorna]

Sure. All you need to do is build a flex capacitor and then learn quantum physics.

I believe it should be flux capacitor

@ tyroxx, wouldn't speeding up the speed on your molecules make it hard for your body to regenerate new cells, and you would die pretty fast?

[LordTyroxx]

@ tyroxx, wouldn't speeding up the speed on your molecules make it hard for your body to regenerate new cells, and you would die pretty fast?

Yeah, in the movie Clock Stoppers, he started to get grey hair in a couple of minutes (when he sped up his molecules so fast that he could pass through walls).

Or if you just sped up your molecules, you don't know if your body would have trouble making new cells or just make them really really fast. Either way is leaning toward dying faster.

[techsquid]

Time travel is not entirely impossible. But certainly, it is not possible in the way we imagine. Its not just going back and forth in flash of seconds alive and saving your dead wife(remember Timecop) and so on... It is theoretically possible in the sense that time is also considered as similar as other 3 axes. So if it is possible to move from one position to another in any of the axes, it should be possible in time axis also. I have to explain a lot about the theory of relativity if i have to say anything more. After all its a gaming forum...ryt

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[Mave]

Well, I voted "possible" but I just voted on a whim. After seeing some of the logic in this topic, I'm starting to question why I ever put down that it is possible.

I guess it does come down to the fact that if it were possible, we would have heard about it by now. That being said, maybe we're naive to think that we would catch them in the act. Perhaps far off in the distant future, they can somehow send someone to be born into a certain time. Maybe just magically appearing is impossible, but maybe somehow tinkering with light and sound and all that makes it possible for someone to magically be developed as a sperm or something?

Wow, my head is starting to feel funny. I better stop where I'm at.

In a slightly off topic note, anyone play Assassin's Creed? It deals with some neat stuff about "memory" existing in someone's DNA. Perhaps there is some truth to that? I've never looked into it, but maybe time travel could somehow exist in there?

[TYFIGHTER]

I just dont see it as possible... Id like to be wrong because the idea is awesome, but it just seems way to far fetched to me.

[bearded OTP]

If Back to the Future taught us anything, it was that time travel really can screw up the past.

No, in all seriousness, time travel is impossible. If there was such a thing as time travel, then there would be no such thing as time. The past, the future, the present would be the same because the technology of the future would be in the present and past.

That might be a bit confusing, but I hope you get my point.

Actually back to the future got it wrong (awesome set of movies by the way), fact is, if they could travel back and forth on a whim then guess what, when they went back in time, the Earth would not have been in the same location around the sun as it was when they left, thus the dog would have appeared out in the middle of space, and thus ending the first movie only about 20 minutes in.

There is the whole multi verse theory, and some great ideas about traveling around in time would in fact put the traveler not in his own time, but in one almost like it. So if you could travel you would never see your exact time line again. Cool thoughts, cool theories, but we have to understand that time is only a matter of perspective. It only matters to us. IF there is a life after death, a God, a spiritual world, that World is far more likely to matter than our feeble understanding of how the universe works.

I remember reading where time manipulation was being used, or could be used some day in the surgery. They were were able to create a space time bubble around the area being worked on that would speed up time, healing the organ before the body was even closed up, only probably the bubble (assuming it did anything like that at all) could only be maintained for a small time frame and was so tiny that it didn't really matter. I don't even know if that is all true, can't believe half the crap you read on the internet.

[wiiamputee]

hmmmm this is a tough one, i do bellieve that it could possible. If time travel is possible it is most likely not a straight line. Probably something like Donnie Darko.

[Naked Age]

I don't know anyone who studies physics, but you can time travel! Besides the fact that we are all time traveling into the future right now by every second, we can actually slow down our time and speed up the time that people take to age on earth.

What I mean is that I can be 30 years old and my younger brother is 20 years older than me. This can happen in space as a result of speed. The faster you go, the slower the time will become around you.

That's why, people who visit the moon look the same or only one year older than they did when they left the earth. Because the earth is revolving really fast, the space shuttle can come close to the speed of the light.

In theory, you can go back in time by traveling faster than the speed of light. BUT, it is impossible for anything with a mass to travel faster or to travel really close to the speed of light. The only things we know that suck up light is "Black Holes" but that is a different theory and story. (The theory about "Black Hole" sucking up light can prove that light have masses.)

Go on the internet to study about speed of light or ageing in space. Or ask your science teacher.

*EDIT: Please make sure to read over and spell check your posts. This post was very hard to understand. I tried to make sense of it. Sorry if I ruined up any of your points. *Jaden

[Mako]

This explains it all.....

[Arkidas]

Yup, it's possible:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_trave ... _wormholes

[SuperMario290]

For sure! Pft, who doesn't think time-travel is possible? *picks up phone* wait, what is that.....37 people that visited this thread???

[Ezekiel Rage]

actually its impossible. because if its ever possible, we would already know.
time is a relative stance for us humans that does not exist. everything is always in motion, there is no time per se.
time traveling is impossible for several reasons. one would be that it must have already happened. if not, you would create a paradox by traveling into the past. if this hasnt happened yet, it will never happen because it ahsnt happened.
if somebody one day travels into the past, he should have already been there. but he hasnt...
sure, one could say nobody realized but this is hardly realistic. especially nowadays.
because if you travel through time, you shift the energy and molecules that are on and inside us. because you create something in a time that is not there. and this space gets occupied by something already, maybe even just air. by moving into a differnt time, you displace whatever there is where you appear.
those molecules move, and thus a special heat structure is geenrated.
this can either be just warm or downright hot, depending on the creation speed. and if you travel through time backwards, the creation speed is an instant, thus the surounding particles get hot.
and im pretty sure we would have some scientific knowledge about instant burns around the globe.
the burning bush moses talked to doenst count. its fantasy. this is scifi...
thats something cmpletly different...

but if you really wanna travel into the future, get ourself so drunk that you fall into a coma. you will wake up a few hours or even days later :p

[NES_Master]

This explains it all.....

I thought I was going to get Rick Rolled. Very interesting video though.

My whole take on the subject is that time is a concept of man, just like a lot of other things. And really there is no way to change something that happend because you can't reverse somrthing that doesn't exist. Instead of worring about things like time travel we should try and do something about gravity.

[Star Luigi]

hmm probly shouldnt bump this up...srry cortjezter if this against the rules =[....oh well. some1 WAY back talked about backwards time travel by going faster than light. impossible as this wud require infinite energy when there is only a finite amount. also if you cud change anything it wud cause you to lose your initial reason for going back so that you never went back and nothing was changed in the 1st place...PARADOX! 0.o and dont even get me started on trying to stop some1 from dying -_-

[New Age Retro Hippie]

There are some silly people who are definitively saying that time travel is impossible because we don't have future people coming and being all like "OH HAY LEMME CURE CANCER".

Tell me - can you prove that many of our inventions are not the result of time traveling?

On another hand, the ability to travel into the future has been discussed that time can be accelerated, but not reversed.

[RedKirby]

Wouldn't it theoretically be necessary to have a time machine in the past/future as well as the present? First of all, you'd need a way to get back to the time you came from, and second, whatever mechanism you'd use to actually time travel would probably have to exist on both ends. Time traveling to a time before time travel existed is like trying to send an email to someone without a computer - you could send the message, but there would be nothing to receive it.
This means it wouldn't be possible to go to a time where time travel doesn't exist - meaning you couldn't go back in time and kill Hitler or cure cancer.

[The_Hangman]

If time travel was ever going to be possible, then the history books would be filled with passages about how time travelers went back and spread technology out all over the ages.

So no. Time travel will never be possible, ever.

Um...
Isn't this a logical fallacy?
If it is, I'm quite saddened that people support this view.

We're going to need some science for this question.

[sweetdaddyg]

oh its possible alright

just incredibly difficult to do

[stinklesAFI]

I for one think time travel is totally possible, crop circles, unexplained mysteries, there are some teenagers in the future laughing their asses off.

[Woopman]

We know traveling to the future is possible by moving at incredible speeds, but you wouldn't be able to go back in time to a time when the technology doesn't exist yet.

[MAGNUS-8M]

Wow, old thread...feels like I really am time travelling.. :p *SHOT*

I think time travel is a neat fictional mechanic for plots and whatnot. The thing I find interesting is that the time-machine itself is rarely used in a good time-travel plot, it's more about the interaction between past, present, and future and the consequences that it creates from that. The plots that DO center around the time machine itself rarely feel interesting. I really think authors who even think about using it as a plot device should keep in mind that what actually happens in those visited eras needs to be the thing that's interesting, not writing a generic plot and hoping the time-machine part of it is so interesting it somehow overshadows a dull plot(I'm mostly thinking about that move that MST3k made fun of, which used a Cessna airplane and a Commodore 64 to time travel with...bleh. But on the other hand, Timeline(the book, I haven't seen the movie) did a pretty good job of making the destination worth the plot device).

Anyway, yeah, real life time travel. No, I don't think it's possible. And no, I'm not saying it's impossible because of a lack of evidence of it already happening. It's partly because I believe that the concept of time is more of an observation of events occuring relative to the observer, and not an actual, tangible 'fourth dimension/layer-of-reality'. There just seems to be a 'present' that 'never goes anywhere'. Maybe you could project something small 'into the future' faster than we could arrive there, but I don't really feel like that should be thought of as being time travel.

I think it's more like you were standing on the center of a giant clock. You always see time moving around you, and maybe you're affected by being slowly spun around on that center axis. But you never actually go anywhere. Maybe you could walk out on that hand and feel like you're moving faster since the end of the hand has to travel a longer distance quicker in order to stay relative to its fixed location at the center, then walk back with the idea that you were going back in time, but neither action actually changes what time it is on the clock; you're just 'there'.

I also feel like a lot of the example scenarios are a little too convenient, and none actually sound totally feesible or all that practical. MAYBE they might work in theory, but then what? A lot of them are really open ended and don't explain a whole lot other than being able to claim 'it's possible under these circumstances'.

[vivi]

man magnus... that was an awesome response hhaha im not even going to try to top it

[Inkies19]

No time traveling into the past isn't possible because there is this thing called entropy and it measures how much disorder there is in the world on a microscopic level. This entropy is increasing every second of every day and there is no possible way to decrease entropy so going back in time is impossible because you can't go from a higher entropy to a lower entropy. Though time traveling into the future hmmm....

[Ezekiel Rage]

it is possible to travel into the future, for time is relative. in space, time flows differently than on earth. if you could propel a rocket with light speed through space straight away from the earth for five years and then return it home at light speed, at earth, more time has passed than the ten years the ship was on its way. but thats theoretical of course...