Time travel

Discussion in 'Weird, Bizarre and Mysterious' started by NightRose, Nov 1, 2006.

  1. NightRose

    NightRose idiosynractic rose

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    What is your opinion on it, Could it be acomplished? What complications could there be?
     
  2. J0hn

    J0hn Phantom

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    Nope. impossible. TIme doesn't really exist. Take away the clocks and the years, months, days and weeks, then you have the infinite moment. Time is manmade. Go into space, time doesn't exist. What is time? If we suggest it is just a measurement, then we cannot manipulate it. Like 2 plus 2 equals four. We cannot make 2 plus 2 equal 3.

    If we ever go back in time, we would not exist. Simply because we would not be experienced time traveller and would simply go with our desires and meet our past selves and fuck everything up. Some good would come of it but a lot of bad would inevitably arise. we would need to keep going backwards and forwards in time for eternity, if we were survivors because we would create new problems.

    Time travel is impossible for a reason. If there is a God, I am sure he made it impossible for our own well being.
     
  3. ethanberry

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    Time travel is very possible. In our own worlds perhaps.
     
  4. Maggie Sugar

    Maggie Sugar Senior Member

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    Time exists. Things happened "yesterday" whether we had names for that or not. Things will happen "next week" even if we didn't have a name for "week."

    Einstein said moving backward in time isn't possible, but String Theory wasn't developed yet. According to String Theory (what little I understand) time travel can be accomplished by "bunching up" time, like scrunching a shoelace in your hands, and getting back and forth through the folds, as now they are closer together. Not that I know that anyone has done it.
     
  5. Wasteland

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    It could exist, but unless we were the ones who went back in time and changed something, we would never know. The timeline would be changed so suddenly and without flaw, that it would just become normal to us.

    I believe that a human can "flip" between different times in the timeline. This happens to me on a regular basis. One minute, it's 1986, then it's the 90s, then it's the future, then I'm back here, and so on. The universe, time, and existence are not solid and straight, but I believe they are fluid and interloping, like what would happen if you took a couple of feet of yarn, rolled it up in your hands, and threw it up in the air. Different parts would intertwine.
     
  6. Allonym

    Allonym cheesecake slut

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    youd still have to find a way to punch through the layers between folds though, which, well, could be catastrohpic . In theory at least :D
     
  7. J0hn

    J0hn Phantom

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    A lot of Einsteins theories were wrong, inaccurate and influenced by things that seemed to have relevence but didn't.


    If we see the universe as one dimension out of millions and they are all connected by a wormhole. Supposing a wormhole is a black hole. Light cannot escape and all matter is taken into this black hole. The nearer you get, the stronger the gravitational pull due to the field of gravity being naturally stronger in its epicentre.

    If man was ever to survive a trip down a blackhole(Wormhole), he would have to pray that the laws of our universe are perfectly symetrical. I believe there is a dimension that has a mirror image of our dimension and that all events that happen in the universe of our dimension are stored away or imprinted as a mirror image onto the universe that mirrors us. This symetrical dimension is one of the closest dimensions to ours. It would be plausable to say we would be safe.

    On arrival, you would see time going backwards. But it would be a super universe because while incorporating our data, it also has its own laws of universe that may be superior to our own.

    Would we see Hitler, the second world war and all the wars taking place again? Yes, but these would merely be appirations in the sky of planet Earth in the super universe.

    If you spilt a cup of coffee, would it simply fall and smash? No. It will fall but then become whole again in a blink of an eye.Infact you wouldn't see it happening. It would just be whole again. Time would move faster but would also be going backwards with two layers of time. This mechanism would stop the inevitable pull and pull. For example: If two people pull on an object. It isn't going to move. So like twin tracks, time goes both ways. Never do they merge together.

    To find or even get to our nearest dimension would take many lightyears. Infact you would never get there. Even though it is the nearest. In the universe there are dimensions far greater in distance so everything is measured on a grand scale.

    If you stumble onto a universe where the laws of the universe do not go inline with the universe we know, you would not exist the moment you got there.
     
  8. themnax

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    neither science nor religeon know the limits of what is possible. science doesn't claim to.

    possibility doesn't mean much without method at hand.
    which someone somewhere somewhen might have.
    somewhen that might be us.

    i have a strong personal paranoia of chronic hysterisis.
    but to each their own ...

    =^^=
    .../\...
     
  9. psychedelic goddess

    psychedelic goddess ♥Messenger of Love♥

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    all time is now, therefore time travel is indeed possible - whether we can affect events in the past/future while there is a matter of speculation......we may simply appear as "ghosts", witnessing, but unable to influence.

    ah, the theories are limitless! :)
     
  10. HungryJoe

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    One man said that time travel was possible but he said in order to do it you would need the mass of half the galaxy. So it is not going to happen but the same man came up with another theroy dealing with computers.

    It gets very Matrix like but basically if we can create a computer with enough power we can go back in time through virtual reality. The thing is that every person we interact with is their own entity because of the power this computer can create.
    The downside is that if his computer program created the chances that we are the original creators is like one in a billion. Basically he is saying that we are actually the computer program, so when you talk to a total stanger they may be a VR time traveller.

    That's my rant.
     
  11. Airfern1313

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    well without brining myself too far into the argument, one complication would be the fact that matter is going to be occupying the space your traveling into...unless your in space and get really lucky.
     
  12. revolution_time

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    time travel to the future is possiable. find a space ship that can move at the speed of light and time will stand still for you while everything around you moves on. the past is another matter. you cannot go back into "our" time. it has already happened. however, you could, in theory, punch into one of an infinite number of other "dimensions" where time is moving "slower" then our own. however, none of these would be exact replicates of ours. one slight change and things could transform and become radically different from our own.
     
  13. One With The Fog

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    ok first off I will state this , Anything and everything is possible can happen and has already been worked out , there are unlimited possibilitys of what could happen and each has its own timeline of "what if" , even if its just changed by one single binary particle deciding to be off instead of on..

    Does this mean theres no free thought? well yes and no , Yes everything has already been worked out , but theres also unlimited possibilities and the choices you make cause an array of alternative timelines to split off.
    and since theres unlimited set destinies theres really no set destination for you which technically means , you technically have free thought ..
    (forgot to mention theres really no set rules etc . no pupose to exist yada-yada , and everything is just an expectation of something else)
    Anywho , went off topic a bit sorry >_>
    So yes time travel is possible lol
     
  14. One With The Fog

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  15. BlueJay

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    Whether it's possible or not I don't know. I do know there have been reports of rifts in time where people have seen a particular event from the past....although if it was possible there could be devastating consequences. Time travel could alter the future in drastic ways. If someone sometime does happen to prove that it's possible, I hope the knowledge never falls into the wrong hands.
     
  16. wootier

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    past present and future all being now, its merely a matter of realizing ure not here, ure there, which is also here, so u see, were everywhere, all the time, cus were always here and now
     
  17. themnax

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    whether or not it is possible is a less pertinent question then whether or not it is a good idea.

    i personaly don't see it as one.


    and i suspect, just suspect, at least some of what is messed up, IS messed up as a resault of time meddling having been done!

    such as there might never have been a roman empire if there had never been anyone timetravelling, and

    we would be living in not only a very different,

    but quite possibly both a more advanced, but more importantly,

    much happier,
    world if there hadn't been.

    =^^=
    .../\...
     
  18. Zajko

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    Free choice means that although every path through the forest has its own existence, we get to choose which one we walk (actually which one we identify ourselves as walking, as within the multiverse of possibilities we are simultaneously walking all paths)
     
  19. Zajko

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    We have 5 senses that tell us about space. We have only one sense that tells us anything about time, and that sense is Memory. I find it interesting that while the workings of our 5 spatial senses are fairly well understood (the Eye works like a camera, etc.), No-one has been able to isolate the memory mechanism in the brain or figure out how it works. I suspect that our conception of Time is based mush more on our internal programming than on the way the external unverse actually operates - indeed our understanding of the universe seems to improve whenever we become willing and able to give up part of our preconceptions of time, such as with Einstein's Relativity Theory or Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle.

    Now I would say that Time Travel is possible only if time itself is multidimensional (which I believe to be the case). If we were to go back in time, and then ride that timeline into its future (which would of course include the consequences of our own actions), we would end up in a time not ahead of or behind, but "sideways" in time from where we started. Traveling and returning to our starting place/time is possible only if the continuum of time contains 'loops", which is possible only in certain multidimensional continua.

    Time Travel will become possible when we become able to transcend our conception of time as single line of historic progression and learn to understand, map, and manipulate time as a multidimensional continuum. This is a tall order, as mapping and manipulating are processes, and our conception of what a "process" is is tied up with our linear conception of time. It would have to be a process that changes the very nature of what a "process" is!

    Incidently, if Einstein's theories are reasonable accurate (and most evidence indicates that they are) there can be no >c space travel without time travel, so we can forget about bombing around distant stars and galaxies in >c spacecraft for the forseeable future. This is an example of the way our 5 (spatial) senses encourage us to imagine traveling to distant places in space while unimagined marvels in nonlinear time are actually much closer and may be more accessible.
     
  20. Echoing Moon

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    If that's true, than coulden't you move so slow that time would pass you by, placeing you in the past.
     

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