1. That's numbers and measuring that you're thinking of. We didn't invent the passage of time - it was happening before this planet existed, and it will be happening after this planet is no more. 2. See my previous post. No time-travellers until the first Time Machine gets invented, and then they'll be everywhere. Like happened with cars and planes, for example.
To above poster: A time machine has NEVER been invented, it wouldnt matter if a time machine was invented 5 years, or 55 years or 5 thousand years into the future, if one was invented, we would have people time travelling back, and we dont. Therefore it hasnt happened. Define time travel? I believe that physically going back in time to the past is impossible, because if you change something in the past, no matter how small it may seem, it can have an unstoppable chain reaction that will change the 'present' in an unknown way and that just cant be allowed to happen. For example if i went back in time and killed myself as a kid.......thats impossible because i would never have grown old enough to go back and kill myself if i was dead etc.... I believe however that your mind or your conscious can time travel. If you think about the past or if you predict the future is that not time travel? When you day dream of the past your mind leaves your body and your just in the conscious realm, when u get brought back into reality its like 'UGH!' what? and its a shock sorta thing. just my two cents.
Here's another topic to google: after the Philadelphia Experiment, was the "Montauk Project" which came from the Phoenix Project. I've read the book...found it to be quite interesting, thought provoking.
time dilation is possible , but traveling BACK in time .... no way.. it already happened, it's over-- gone...bye bye google Einstein's "twin paradox "
OK, I just did google that - and I still don't get the answer; nor do many others - hence, the term "pardox". Was that a test? I would be most interested in hearing what you mean by "time dilation". I'm not familar with that phrase. Also, why do you think it's already happened? I also feel that way, (especially after reading "The Montauk Project")...I'm just curious as to what brought you to this deduction.
time machines have been invented, the works of the princton engineering anomalies reasearch (PEAR) team did work on natural random number generators these machines should have a very consitant out put that averages to zero. when there are world wide human events of great emotion, the machines will produces spikes that have a 1 in a million chance of occuring. Thats not the time travel part, the time travel part is that some REALLY major events, like 9/11 (yes it did change everything...ffs) the machines did the same pattern associated with an intense event 4 hours prior to the actual event. this also happened with the asian tsunami http://www.newsmonster.co.uk/parano...covered-a-way-of-peering-into-the-future.html while its all very simple...you can know that something big is going to happen...so awareness of the future is a form of time travel, just not in the physical sense but rather in the more fundemental information sense
Time travel is possible but the laws of physics doesn't allow you to travel back before the time machine was invented. Hotwater
time ticks away.. As person is accelerated toward the speed of light, time slows down for them. That's the basis of the twins paradox and no it's not a test The twin that stays put , time marches on at it's regular pace, while the one hauling ass , time slows down for him in relation to his twin. my understanding is that they have proved this with slight and very slight difference with spacecraft clocks vs. ground clocks.. not much as they are not going even close to the speed of light. But measurable with atomic clocks. But here is some wild horse mescalito thoughts, if you're into astronomy and physics. Most of us are familiar with Bohr's model of the atom Which more or less looks just like the earth going around the sun. The earth moves round the sun in an oval track, that has an average radius of 93 million miles, at a speed of 18½ miles a second so we are moving pretty fast.. though at time it may not feel like it now the sun along with it's pals are moving around the center of the milky way. Using a radio telescope system that measures celestial distances 500 times more accurately than the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers plotted the motion of the Milky Way and found that the sun and its family of planets were orbiting the galaxy at about 135 miles per second."... the pace certainly has picked up. what close to 7 times faster? now the milky way is part of a Local Group covering a 10 million light-year diameter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Group which is part of the Virgo super cluster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgo_Supercluster Now i don't see any figures on velocity's past our galactic one.. but it stand to reason at least to me based on what we have been able to observe close at hand.. that these guys go around also a center also, and then the next one, more than likely some more. So what are the multipliers of each step , the jump is pretty good between the first few. I would think it would continue to increase which each step. Which brings up the question in my mind have we in some way reached the speed of light ? Relative to some point unknown to us because of our limited time and powers of observation. Doesn't that open the door to the possibility's of a realm where time stands still , granted we would be captive and a part of it .. a very very small part. But a part none the less. The math allows such a thing....is it know as God or Great Spirit ?? this has gotten long.. so I want to post it before it goes ... poof
times as much of an illusion as free will What is time but the pauses between who's turn it is? think of time in a game of manopoly. You must wait your turn...and it doesn't matter how long someone waits because effectively the game is paused until someone acts, and that action takes an infintesimal element of time to do...infact all that unit of time is is a label that acknowledges causality...ie someone has to do something at a particular point in order for other things to happen time is waiting your turn...its just we've built life up so far that the waiting in line of sub atomic particles evolved a new, more fluid form of life...
the man who lives 10 thousand years...remembers little of his mother but still needs the care she denied him
I see I'll have to spell it out again for the differently intelligent among us. I think a Time-machine, when it gets invented, will be a machine within which a person can travel through time. For example - suppose a time machine is built in the year 2040, and keeps working for the next 100 years. Anyone could use it to travel from any moment during that 100 years to any other moment within that 100 years. The machine itself goes nowhere. (as an analogy, think of the teleport machine in The Fly movie, it stayed where it was while the man inside it teleported). So, no time-travellers until the first time-machine gets invented. In the future the invention of the first time machine will be a known fact - everyone will know when it happened and how long the machine worked for. When that first machine is getting old, somebody will build a new time-machine right next to it, so that time-travellers could step out of one machine into the other and continue their journey (just like with lifts in skyscrapers). Thankyou for your attention. Next week this post will have been forgotten, and some idiot will say time travel will never happen cos where are the time-travellers. Again.
time travel doesn't make a whole lot of sense...it is full of paradox which seem to boil down to causality. The events that lead to you to travel back in time would no longer exist once you travel back in time...some very similar ones exist but the exact ones do not. What really doesn't work in my mind is this during the time you jump back in time, many many people have made choices...in fact if free will is fundemental to reality then everything in existance has made choices, now you come along and change some of the possibilities...you just vitoed infinite choices made by infinite living things... for time travel to work, free will cannot
Free will does exist as long as you don’t influence the timeline If you were a time traveler, your mere presence at Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865 would have no effect on future events. but if you tried to warn the secret service in advance of the assassination, the fundamental laws of physics wouldn't allow you to do so because it would create a paradox Hotwater
If you understand the nature of reality, you know that time is exclusive to the human perceiver of it. Time has no reality of it's own. Nothing in the human world has reality without the human witness to it. The reason being is that you project the reality you see around you. It comes out of you. The future of time isn't the travel of it, but the realization that it doesn't exist to begin with. x
