time travel

[Minion133]

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[Tps222]

Re: time travel

Ever heard of alternate timelines in which the altering of something could create a new sub-timeline in which your past self is affected and not yourself?

I hope I didn't just make that up, I'm pretty sure there is some crackpot philosophy on it.

[terence1357]

Re: time travel

Ever heard of alternate timelines in which the altering of something could create a new sub-timeline in which your past self is affected and not yourself?

I got lost completely in the middle.
The I caught back on at the end.

[-Izzy-]

Re: time travel

Personally i dont think time is something that really exist. Just a manmade mesurement and isnt really there to go back or forward in.
And dont say im retarded cause you have no idea yourself.

[jewpinthethird]

Re: time travel

Ever heard of alternate timelines in which the altering of something could create a new sub-timeline in which your past self is affected and not yourself?

I hope I didn't just make that up, I'm pretty sure there is some crackpot philosophy on it.

No, that's pretty much the basis of Back to the Future II.

Honestly, I dont believe in time travel. I only believe in the present. Though, if given the chance to go back in time, I would in a heartbeat.

[SethSquall]

Re: time travel

No, that's pretty much the basis of Back to the Future II.

Dammit. I was going to say that then I scrolled down and found you already did.




GREAT SCOTT!

[Tps222]

Re: time travel

Oh, that's right.

I'm not sure if that diminishes the integrity of it, although they are all theories, so I suppose it doesn't matter.

I'm not really educated in the matter, all I think of is something with time being relative and wormholes and stuff.

[trillobyite]

Re: time travel

Einstein's special theory of relativity basically explains that time travel is a unique possibility, but only if we can create a machine which would cause us to travel at close to the speed of light. That will not happen for at least a few millenia, so I doubt we have anything to worry about.

c. if time travel were real in a "future", the world would probably have asploded already. if one person gets his hands on a craft, what's to stop him from going back and changing history to how he pleases. if this was so, we'd probably be all bowing down to our nerd overlord by now. :P

There are plenty of movies and games which deal with that theory. Have you ever heard of the JourneyMan Project? It's a series of computer games in which humanity discovers the secret to time travel and numerous measures are taken to contain its power to specified facilities. Of course, something goes wrong. If you're interested in that kind of stuff I recommend you check it out.

[Reach]

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Trilliobyte, time dilation isn't time travel. Time dilation is changing the relativistic effect of time to cause it to pass slower or faster, relatively.

I don't think time travel into the 'past' or 'future' is possible. For a couple reasons, but to cut to the chase I don't think either exist. I believe the problem is choice, making something in the future inevitably uncalculable. Ergo, I believe it is flawed to assume anything will happen, therefor, traveling 'forward' in time is impossible because it is undeterminable.

And for some reason I don't feel that going back in time is possible, for the simple reason that going back in time would therefor effect events preceding the building of your 'time machine', and therefor exist effected because you chose to build the time machine, so you wouldn't actually be going back in time at all.

It is kind of dependant on wether choice is something real or not. If it does not exist then time travel might be possible.

But obviously all of this is pure speculation XD And I hope that made sense

[dore]

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Time is nothing more than a measurement; ergo, time travel is impossible. You can't bend measurements. It would be like making a 7 inch long object 8 inches long without changing the object.

[SethSquall]

Re: time travel

It would be like making a 7 inch long object 8 inches long without changing the object.

You should of thought of a better example hahahaha.

Or is that just my dirty dirty mind.

[Reach]

Re: time travel

Time is nothing more than a measurement;

As much as I agree, it is impossible to prove this, since how time actually functions is not properly understood.

A measurement is defined as such by whoever is measuring. We define time as we understand it, but it could be something more complex, even though I doubt it.

[trillobyite]

Re: time travel

Trilliobyte, time dilation isn't time travel. Time dilation is changing the relativistic effect of time to cause it to pass slower or faster, relatively.

When you think about it, what is time travel? It is one traveller experiencing time relatively different to another. Einstein's theory explains that a person on a train going near the speed of light will experience a second pass by, while the bystander will experience 60 years pass by. Creating such a "train" (though to build a contraption that could achieve such a speed or "carry" a human is insanely difficult) would ultimately result in the creation of a time machine.

Time is nothing more than a measurement; ergo, time travel is impossible. You can't bend measurements. It would be like making a 7 inch long object 8 inches long without changing the object.

Well, another of Einstein's theories explains that time is actually a component of outer space (that is why space is sometimes called the space-time continuum). A rip in space-time will result in a black hole, where even time itself is screwed up. The concept of seconds, minutes, hours, etc is invented by humanity and not by nature, thus, the measurement of time is technically false, but time itself is a natural force.

[dore]

Re: time travel

ROFL @ SethSquall, I didn't think about that before posting.

[Reach]

Re: time travel

Not quite trillo. I would define time travel as being able to pass THROUGH time. Understand this - by dilating time (special relativity), you are not traveling through time, but rather along time as things would normally happen. Everything around you would continue to happen as it would, just at a different rate, and then alas, you would arrive at your destination thousands of years in the future as it were, choices made, lives lived, unable to go back because you simply changed the perspective of measuring time pass. You didn't 'time travel'!

If you would define that as time travel then it's defintely possible because time dilation has been observed.