do you think that time travel to the future would some day be possible? i don't think it would. if you think about it, the things that we do in the present affect outcomes in the future. and sense there are endless possibilities of things that can be done in the present, there could be millions of different futures. basically, its like trying to read ahead to the pages of an unfinished book to where nothing is written.
also, if time travel were possible period, wouldn't someone from the future come back in time to the present day and tell us? or maybe they're hiding in secret... knowing that if they reveal themselves to be visitors from the future that it will ultimately alter the future.
confused? well, just state your opinion of whether or not you think time travel will someday be possible. i think that only with something as complex as quantum computers will be closer to achieving the phenomenon of time travel.
you know i used to think about this a lot. then the answer came to me. yes time travel will have to happen some day. but the thing is it would not be good at all. it like a parodox. lets say the man who created time travel's mother died. he than became a mad scientist because he was so sad. that's when he made time travel. so he went back in time to save his mother and therefor he never created time travel.oh yes they died on a boat crash. but anyways so if he never created time travel then he never saved his mother. it goes on for ever and his exsictence disappears. he never lived at all. this would then change other people's lives making some good and some bad, all because they once knew that man.
you would have to go faster than the speed of light to break through the barriers. Its like faster than the speed of sound, but on a much larger scale. when you see an airplane, its going faster than the speed of sound (sometimes) and so it seems as if the sound is comming from behind the plane.
If you could go faster than the speed of light, you wouldnt really be in the future or the past. You would merely be seing objects in serten times. I.e, like Kirby998 said, you would be seing earth 5 years in the past because your 5 lightyears away. But you wouldnt really be seeing the true past, as light takes time to travel, so really earth is in the present, your just not seeing in the present. This is simmilar to if a star that was 10 light years away blew up. You would be seeing the light from the star for 10 years before it went out.
An improbability drive could work, as it travels in the space between spaces, and the time between times, but inorder to leave/come back to our eh...dimension so to speak, you would have to figure out what is 'normal' or probable. Therefore, you may always be in the improbability drive, because if i view flying monkeys as normal, then i would be in a differng 'dimension'. People view difernt things as normal, so where you end up is based entirelyl on who or what is driving it.
Time travel is completely possible considering that time has been proven to be a fabric which can be cut, twisted, torn, and whatever else you can think of.
I know if you ride a plane east or west for about 12 hours you will gain or lose a half second, depending on which way you go. Time can speed up or slow down if you are going fast and depending on the direction you move. But you really aren't time traveling, you are just manipulating time.
Why is everyone saying that going fast means you travel through time? Micro-seconds by going fast on the freeway?? Losing half a second flying for 12 hours? Where do you get this information.
How is traveling fast going to change what time it is? It sounds absolutely ridiculous, which is why I wanted to read this.
And when was time proven to be a fabric which can be cut, or manipulated in any way? Just asking questions about some of the posts on here, please enlighten me.
and i'm not so sure about the reflective earth giving away a light source... though there could be a shadow
if you travel to the past and if anything at all is different, like say you sneeze when at that time you held it in, then the future will be changed.... Butterfly Effect
Either Google or senior year in high school. Why are you questioning things that were explained almost 50 years ago?
I believe paintballer made a topic about "seeing the past" which used my example of going faster then light say 10 light years away from Earth, you'd be able to see earth 10 years ago. Light needs time to travel so if you look at the sun your are seeing the sun about 7 seconds in the past.
I don't think you understood my question. I was asking how people think that traveling fast makes you travel THROUGH TIME. I already know (thanks for being a smart ass by the way) that what we see is the light that is reflected off of objects, and that it takes time to travel through space, so that the farther away you are from an object, the longer it takes for light to get to you, and the longer it takes to see it.
That's just it... sure you can be 10 light years away from something, and see it as it was 10 years ago, but you are not actually in the past. You are just seeing the light emitted 10 years ago that just now reached your eyes. You cannot interact with it and the object itself is still in the present time.
I think that traveling to the future is virtually impossible, because the future is a consequence of the actions that occur in the present therefore there are an infinite amount probabilities so unless you actually manage to remove a person completely from the timestream, there would be no real timetravel.
As for going to the past, like I said above -the future is a consequence of the actions that occur in the present- which means that it is no longer the past but the present therefore to return to you exact original time one would have to make sure that all choices made are the exact same, the difference in the matter of one person dying could be the reason if the future is devastated by nuclear war or one where world peace has been put into play.
Hopefully that was clear enough for everyone else....it made sense in my head at least.
As for going to the past, like I said above -the future is a consequence of the actions that occur in the present- which means that it is no longer the past but the present therefore to return to you exact original time one would have to make sure that all choices made are the exact same, the difference in the matter of one person dying could be the reason if the future is devastated by nuclear war or one where world peace has been put into play.
In short, a paradox. You're right though, about both points, from what we know about time that would be true. However, if time is linear, isn't it possible that traveling into the past is possible? I mean, if you travel into the past, everything would work out the same since the path that brought you to taking the original journey would be after that history has played out, so when you travel into the past you've really already done it and the time line stays the same. I don't really know how to put this in clearer words, sorry...
I'm not saying I'm right, I'm just throwing that out there. Honestly, I believe time travels practically impossible from what we know today, but for the sake of argument I'm acknowledging there may be ways around our own laws of space and time...
Time travel is a very controversial subject. Many authors have written about it and many movie adaptations have been made. I think some time in the future, time travel MIGHT be possible, but I am not sure.
I do not see how time travel would be possible... If we tried to travel back in the future dead bodies would have to rise.. There is no way that will EVER happen... Plus how are you going to time travel anyway? Just the sound of it seems impossible.. You would have to be magical and there is nor will be anything near magic ever in the future.
