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AnaLoGMunKy
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Moopie!

Time travel is impossible because to do this you would need to rewind the universe, and thats not TT thats literally reversing every atom, particle and space between atoms and GOD knows what else to a previous state. Everything exists at once and it is in a constant forward motion. Time is not a line, it is mearly a measurment of point A to B, you cant go back to A because it is, in fact now point C. So even reversing everything would still only take you forward.

Thats my view anyway. What yall gonna do bout that!

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LegendaryThunder
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See WW3 Smackdown for how railguns work.

tomertheking
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My favorite theory is that when you travel to the past, whatever you do has already happened.

Ernie15
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Bard

Time travel is possible. All you need is a DeLorian and some plutonium.

LegendaryThunder
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Nomad

DeLorian what never heard of this.

LegendaryThunder
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Nomad

But i do know how to mak a time machine.

tnymeh
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Nomad

Time travel will never become possible. If we discover time travel in the future, why aren't any time travelers here yet?

Jerrrd
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What about Time Cop, with Jean-Claude Van Dam? There could be time travel in the future, it is just policed by dancers-turned-fighters-turned-actors-turned-time cops!

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time traveling in past is impossible, but time traveling in future is possible, when you are close to huge object like black hole or when you get to 99.99% of speed of light you are timetraveling in future, but you cant get back in past so it sucks , I watched new documentary made by smartest man, I don't remember his name lol...really

tnymeh
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time traveling in past is impossible, but time traveling in future is possible, when you are close to huge object like black hole or when you get to 99.99% of speed of light you are timetraveling in future, but you cant get back in past so it sucks , I watched new documentary made by smartest man, I don't remember his name lol...really


You aren't 'traveling' into the future. It's just that time moves slower when you travel at the speed of light, compared to the normal speed of time.

There's a thought experiment about this. Imagine there are two brothers. They are both 21. One goes into space, traveling at the speed of light for one year. When he comes back, he will find that the Earth has gone hundreds of years into the future. Everything he knew and loved is now gone. He's gone into the future by traveling at the speed of light.
KatanaAndDagger
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There is no future, but a continuing present.

tnymeh
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There is no future, but a continuing present.


The idea of future is that of a continuing present.
lightcrux
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I watched new documentary made by smartest man

I suppose you're talking about Stephen Hawking.

when you are close to huge object like black hole

Not quite. What black holes do to space-time is that they bend the fabric to some outer confines beyond our current comprehension. It's like taking a fabric of stretched cloth and &quotinching" a part of it towards yourself.

oh and btw, it is true that if you would go at the speed of light...you would get younger by a few seconds.

Nope, that is absolutely impossible. You cannot get younger. Time "relatively" slows down for you quite significantly. What Tnymeh has stated is a valid instance of the event.

Time travel

To be honest, I don't think time travel is possible. I have three reasons to believe so,

1. The TT paradox

2. Even if you do go back in time what probability exists that you or this so-called "your-past-self" would perform the same actions as you did. This, more-or-less, implies that you might not even have time traveled. However, you still came back in time to observe this sequence of events and that is absolutely ludicrous.

3. Time travel also brings into effect the argument of freezing time. Consider that I could time travel and/or freeze time. On one of my "frozen-time" excursions I see a mugger robbing an old lady. I immediately move the old lady away from the robber and &quotlace" the robber in the jail.

However, when time "resumes" (from my perspective) it should be resuming from the very same moment as I had left it. Which means that even though I moved the robber and the lady, but, in confines of reality, they are still there, that event of robbery is still occurring (or will still occur) because time was frozen "relative" to ME and not to the man or to the lady.

It is a tad bit complicated to put my above argument in sane yet proper words. But I tried.

Although, sci-fi, fantasy and various sub-genres of novels, movies, etc., have banked upon and heavily advocated the use of time travel, but as it is I believe time travel is impossible and will (rather, must) remain so.
th100
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Well, guess what? We ARE achieving time travel - it's happening when we are
-watching stars; the light that we are looking at comes from the star more than a million years ago
-just sitting there!

driejen
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watching stars; the light that we are looking at comes from the star more than a million years ago

That isn't time travel, thats just because of the limited speed of light. If you throw a ball at someone, the delay between you throwing the ball and that someone catching the ball is not caused by time travel.
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Actually, scientists agree that time travel could be possible. Steven Hawking just had a book published on the subject in fact. Time is like a fabric, it can be torn, ripped, folded, whatever. Think of black holes, time comes to a standstill in them.

We Can Rule Whatever We Want Out Humans Are Strange

You cant go back in time, only forwards.

No If It Were Possible Both Ways Would Be Opened Up For Travel
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