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LOL fail. What I meant was:

If you were to go back in time and change something you'd be completely changing the future unless you can do it in the same timeframe and same way you did it before. If you don't do that you're changing the future.

I say it is unlikely to happen, do to it being ineffective if it even did work.

For example, lets say you went back in time in order to stop WWII. If you succeed, then there would have never been a WWII, thus you would have never gone back to stop it. IF you never go back to stop it, there was a WWII that you go back to top. Its an endless cycle.

I think that if we ever do gain the ability to time travel, we're going to find it a lot simpler than we thought. Like your paradox. I think we'll find that it won't be that complicated, they'll stop the war, and that'll be it. Maybe they'll be the only ones who remember it in their own time though.

and on another note: if your gonna change history the after effects are still in play even before you go back in time because you changed history in the future changing the present.(that would be if it was truely a single time line, which i seriousily doubt it is)

I think time travel is impossible.

We are a few nanoseconds behind because of the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile. But back to the point. Time travel is impossible (so far) because like somebody said, if time travel was possible, then don't you guys think that like 200-400 years later or even closer that somebody would have already invented "time travel". So then they probably would have come back or maybe not but right now I just think time travel isn't possible.

-kell84

if time travel was possible, then don't you guys think that like 200-400 years later or even closer that somebody would have already invented "time travel". So then they probably would have come back or maybe not but right now I just think time travel isn't possible.

then don't you guys think that like 200-400 years later or even closer that somebody would have already invented "time travel". So then they probably would have come back or maybe not but right now I just think time travel isn't possible.

Well th thing is that the future hasnt happened yet until we make it happen. So saying that what you said is impossible. and im sure if that did happen they would tell anyone but then maybe one person will and thats how we would get time travel

I would think traveling into the future is possible. Traveling backwards, however, is either impossible or it would be stupid to try it if it is possible.

Of course traveling to the future is possible, I'm doing it right now!

But really... Time travel should be possible, physicists know most of the science behind it now, all that we really need is a mass great enough to curve space-time, then something to bridge that gap.

I doubt anyone would be stupid enough to try it though.

Kinda, now you see, if someone rich came from the future and he started buying us all out, if he would ultimately be stopped 1 year from when he came, he would've been gone then because the future was predicted. The future was also then predicted when he was from the future he was originally from, so he cannot disappear as soon as he comes otherwise he therefore wouldn't be at his original future, so he can only disappear once the actions made have been done and he will then disappear.
And yeah, if you go back in time you can't go forward because your atoms would be slightly more deteriorated and thus out of phase, something like that.
Besides time travel won't help anyone, because you're literally changing the future no matter what:
1. Go in the past you change YOUR present.
2. Go in the future you change YOUR future.
Because if you go in the past, someone can think "Wow what a peculiar fellow isn't he?" and then he gets taken away in his head from the particular thought (I do that alot), in the end making him act differently to other people - making them react differently, which spreads, spreads and spreads.
Meanwhile if you go in the future it's not on such a large scale, maybe. You see the future "Wow!" bla bla bla, then what? You just go to your time with NO effect on you whatsoever? Ha, good luck
You will atleast be thinking about it and get taken away from what you should have originally thought, making a different timeline. Which is weird, like Google Translator, type something in on Google Translate, put it in Japanese (future), then English (new present), then Chinese (new future), then English (newer present), you'll see they keep changing. The more you go back and forth - the more it'll change:
http://www.conveythis.com/translation.php
Try that out, type something in, translate it the maximum amount of times (54) and bam, it's completely different.Kinda, now you see, if someone rich came from the future and he started buying us all out, if he would ultimately be stopped 1 year from when he came, he would've been gone then because the future was predicted. The future was also then predicted when he was from the future he was originally from, so he cannot disappear as soon as he comes otherwise he therefore wouldn't be at his original future, so he can only disappear once the actions made have been done and he will then disappear.
And yeah, if you go back in time you can't go forward because your atoms would be slightly more deteriorated and thus out of phase, something like that.
Besides time travel won't help anyone, because you're literally changing the future no matter what:
1. Go in the past you change YOUR present.
2. Go in the future you change YOUR future.
Because if you go in the past, someone can think "Wow what a peculiar fellow isn't he?" and then he gets taken away in his head from the particular thought (I do that alot), in the end making him act differently to other people - making them react differently, which spreads, spreads and spreads.
Meanwhile if you go in the future it's not on such a large scale, maybe. You see the future "Wow!" bla bla bla, then what? You just go to your time with NO effect on you whatsoever? Ha, good luck
You will atleast be thinking about it and get taken away from what you should have originally thought, making a different timeline. Which is weird, like Google Translator, type something in on Google Translate, put it in Japanese (future), then English (new present), then Chinese (new future), then English (newer present), you'll see they keep changing. The more you go back and forth - the more it'll change:
http://www.conveythis.com/translation.php
Try that out, type something in, translate it the maximum amount of times (54) and bam, it's completely different.

here's the thing. if you go back to the past at all, the after shocks of your actions their actually are in play even before you go back to the past. so techically you could also screw-up time by not going back when you was supposed to, causing another paradox. but making your mom non-exsistent also creates another paradox. besides, few people get that...(wonders if anyone understands what i'm saying)

sonicheroes95 ... you should write a book and the name should be "Time Philosophy" ...

I belive that time is already set out, so even if you went to kill your Grandmother, someone/thing would stop you.

They say the future isn't set in stone. Is the past?