I have figured out TIME TRAVEL!

Traveling forward in time is actaully possible. You have to travel at near light speed though. read up on relativity.

 

I suppose I should say *theoretically, since we havn't got any vehicles lying around that travel at near-light speed.

 

theres the delorean from back to the future!!! , yeah i agree it may be possible to go forward in time but to go back is very very unlikely unless some mad old scientist figures out this huge theory along with it.

 

In order for time travel in this universe to work, there would be no random events, God would not play dice. Maybe there are no random events anywayz.

For instance if you decide to go back in time to 10PM yesterday. You will see your self there, ok. but u would have already known you was going to go back in time because 10pm yesterday while you was smoking a bowl on your couch you saw yourself walk into the room. So who's to say that since you saw that you freaked out and went psycho and then they put u in a crazy house, so that means you couldnt make the trip back in time the next day thus you never saw yourself in the first place. Time travel is impossible

or is it?

Unless you couldnt change the future even if you saw it. For instance,So say they do put u in the crazy house, you start banging your head against the padded walls and some how there is a rip in the fabric of time and u fall back to 10 pm yesterday, there you go.

Your best bet in time travel would be to avoid your past self at all costs.

The other version, of time travel through inter-dimensional travel:

For every trillionth of a second as far back as the universe began, there is a universe created where that trillionth of a second is stored, kind of like a save game. if you can go there then you could go to the past, but... it wouldnt be the same future as it was in ur universe because you would create an alternate timeline in the other universe. I hope this makes some sense, I gotta go lay down.

 

You can experience any "place/moment" in the space/time continuum that you wish, you just aren't allowed to experience it in the same dimensions as your present "place/moment."

Sorry. You can talk to the boss about this rule but don't expect anything to change.

Peace and Love

 

ah, that'll be the universal tick then

 

Yeah thats what I think, all this came to me while stoned.

 

I'm ... doing ... it ... right ... now

 

Besides, assuming there is such a thing as parallel universes, we are currently unable to even fathom how to move between them. Mostly because they are so close, that we couldn't possibly find it... a fraction of a mm or something. And on top of that, according to the theory of parallel universes, a new universe is created every time a decision must be made (which is what? 18 hours a day for a normal individual) and any and all outcomes will create a universe... it's hard to explain. But the only way to travel back would be to trace those paths that you already took... like pipework, meh... if you want to know more, in a more cohesive response, PM me.

 

That wouldn't work because since the universe is supposedly infinite... it is impossible to go faster than the speed of light because the more you speed up, the faster the universe expands... until your craft blows up and you die.

 

Wow great on the reading of chrichton buddy, time line, damn, that was just great, now if you can just figure out the wall of water problem.....



meanwhile relativistic speeds will do some wacky shit, and there is a fair concensus that time is the 4th dimension so there we are

 

I agree with Varuna

What if I say
Who told you, you would need a technological vehicle to time travel?

Is it possible to reason/think as faster as light?

 

Correct, it is impossible to match or exceed the speed of light. But as you near the speed of light, you move into the future (or technically everything inside your ships slows down). Theres more strange stuff to it too - as speed increases, mass increases and length, on the axis parallel to the direction you are travelling, decreases. If you were to reach the speed of light, your velocity would be divided by 0, which breaks math rules (but according to the physics teacher physicists would consider it infinite), and your length becomes zero.

Its kind of a conservation thing. The maximum speed the particles in your atoms can move is the speed of light. If your body is in motion, its particles will all slow down in their subatomic movement, so as to keep your total velocity at the speed of light. So when you travel forward through time by moving at near the speed of light, you are not technically speeding up; Your and everything inside your vessel will have slowed down. Your clock slows down, but so do you, so time that appears to pass normally to you is actually passing very slowly outside your ship. Relativity, at least the time part of it, is proven. Hell, the GPS stations on earth have to send signals to the satellites orbitting the earth like every fifteen minutes or so I think to correct for the fact that their onboard clocks slow down a little. If this was not corrected for, the whole system would be screwed in a day.

 

thats insane!! so time travel is possible?

 

if i was stoned...and had my friend april here, we could explain our theory of time travel...all i can remember talking about is everything that has happened in your life has already happened an infinite number of times...so that explains de ja vu.

and time traveling is moving into a parralel universe...and i can't really clear it up any more...next time i smoke or something i'll try to write some of this down.

...watch donnie darko...

 

The idea behind deja vu is that your ram writes twice to disk the second time with an invalid timestamp, and so deja vu (much more useful to a comp geek than civilians)

 

Okay, and lets see them try and talk to Napoleon this way.

 

You are almost right but you should recheck your physics equations. The effect is known as time dialation. As your velocity increases time slows down for the person that has the velocity. An observer that is stationary experiences time normaly. If/when the person traveling with a certain velocity returns, less time has passed for the person with the velocity. This has actualy been proven in experiment. Also, the length is dialated too( think if you looked up and something flew over you really fast, it would appear a long blur).

 

Ripped straight from the relativity text handed out by the physics teacher -

"This is a general result of the special theory of relativity and applies to lengths of objects as well as to distance. The result can be stated most simply in words as: the length of an object is measured to be shorter when it is moving than when it is at rest. This is called length contraction."

Also according to this text:

length = original length * sqrt(1-v^2/c^2)

if you increase v, the total value of the number within the sqrt is less, so length also becomes less. If v reaches the speed of light, or v=c, then you get the square route of zero * original length, which brings length to zero.

 

So, time and mass dialate. Length contracts.