What Do You Think of Time Travel?

Its a bunch of bullshit if you ask me

 

in relativity time travel does exist! it is fact

there are also 2 twins where one is an astronaut and from him going up into space a couple times (due to velocity) he is like a thousandth of a second more older than he was before

 

1st person that tries being dis -assembled and re- assembled will end up a bloody sack of meat.

 

that's teleportation dude ^^ there's a lot of crazy shit out there in the physical world

teleportation might be possible on some small scale too. but i would not try it for myself. cuz ill end up a bloody sack of meat

 

what would be the point of living if you already knew the future? think about it. it would make everything pointless. part of fun in life, part of what makes life so amazing is not knowing what will happen, how things turn out. taking chances and risking it. if you already knew the outcome there's nothing left to do at all.

that's looking at it from the future. looking at it in regard of the past, life would lose its authenticity. how would you know that what you experience, and what happens in your life is real anymore and not something someone went back and changed to be that way? you wouldn't know.

maybe human beings would adapt to a life like that, but i grew up in the 20th century and i wouldn't want to live that way.

 

In terms of the first point, I don't know.. I mean, if time travel were possible, I guess it would become sort of like "Minority report" in terms of the future, if you knew what was going to happen you would change it most likely. (well if the outcome was undesirable). However, if you ask me, and look back on your own life, I'm sure you can think back to a few points where you might have changed an outcome, but realistically, all those things made you who you are today. So.. I think the majority, wouldn't change anything when given the choice, unless REALLY messed up if they didn't. You have a point that it could be boring and stable that way, but then... Some people want stability and boring lol... I think there was an ALF episode sort of like that, they knew exactly when they were going to die, and the kid asked if that bothered him, and ALF said no. It was comforting. So, depends on personal preference I guess.

But yeah, to be honest I really don't want to know exactly when I'm going to bite the big one, and how... Sure I might try to stave it off, but really... It would be a whole new level of stress. You would be constantly checking the future to see if that extra order of chili cheese fries is the one that wound up killing you 30 years down the road... No fun..


Ah, you got a point on the second part.. I guess we would never really know if the way it was, was the way it was when we went to sleep, as someone could have tinkered and changed the entire timeline while we slept, and you wouldn't be any the wiser... But then if it were truly possible, then you wouldn't really wonder if it were real or not lol.. someone would go back and tinker so that you always believed it was what it is.. Conditioning as a child for example... Mind Freak...

 

dude time travel IS possible, just only going forward, hasn't anyone read what i wrote lol its called the theory of relativity

 

Sorry Slappy, that has quite thoroughly been debunked others on this thread as "signal delay".

That's really no more time travel than me drinking a liter of rum and waking up instantly the next day! time travel.. Look at my watch to check the time boom next thing I know I'm in my bed, and some asshole has left my keys in the fridge, moved my furniture, and had the indecency to leave a trail of toilet paper everywhere.

 

Remind me to not let you time travel at my house....

 

Thing is for that kind of time travel, you need a designated traveler to help keep things in order

Oh, and it's time travel too because sometimes you get to re-experience last night's dinner :/

However... Time is perception as well, so when you are under the influence of alcohol or other drugs your perception of time changes, it can speed way up, or slow way down.. I guess that could be classed as a kind of time "travel"

Or time manipulation anyway...

:afro:

 

actually that is due to another really cool thing about the human body. thing is, our brain processing speed can be altered. stimulants speed it up, so the time appears to be passing slower. when you're on uppers sometimes 10 minutes feels like 20. downers slow that speed and in turn time appears to pass faster. music seems to speed up, 20 minutes pass like a flash.

this speed also changes naturally. when you're in a physically dangerous situation (e.g. fight, the moments just prior to a car accident) your brain starts processing incoming information faster and as a consequence you react faster and you're able to do more per unit time than normally. this is also the reason why time appears to go slower when you're a kid and (as they say) it passes by noticeably faster when you're old. your brain processes information faster when you're younger, thus time appears to pass slower.

that's the whole mystery to this. it's so simple, elegant, and amazing.

 

Yep... Incidentally, they say that would be the number one reason to NOT be immortal, eventually things would just be a blur or something to that effect. You wouldn't be able to have normal relationships because to you, that person would be there one day and gone the next.

I always thought the whole time perception thing was pretty awesome, and it would be even more awesome if you could control it when you wanted. IE: When you're doing something and getting paid to finish the job, then speed up the process and do it in less time.

Sort of like your own personal "Bullet Time" Matrix Style... But yes, in fight or flight situations you are right, time does seem to slow down. Really exaggerated in some movies, but basically the same.. My favorite example is in the new "Sherlock Holmes" fight scene in the beginning, he goes through the whole thing in his mind in slow motion and then does it in about 2 seconds... Pretty nifty...

I'm curious, how would you explain a person dreaming about the past, and not knowing anything about the past can give accurate descriptions of it as if they had studied it for years?

Also, DejaVu? Is that signal delay too?

Oh, and people that have seen the future, and then had it happen that the events did actually happen? How do you explain those?

 

For example? :coffee:

 

lol

 

I don't believe in those things.

 

Well obvious example being when I was younger, I remember dreaming about being in an intersection, it was sunny, there was a red car flipped over, and I saw a school bus at the side of the road.. In the back of the bus.. I saw my baseball team in uniform waving at me.... They were smiling... It was all in all a very weird dream.

Anyway, 3 weeks later, I went home and my parents weren't there. Weird I thought.. They came home about an hour and a half later, they were helping out at the scene of an accident.. You guessed it.. Red car flipped over, and guess what? It turns out that the team members of my baseball team WERE on that bus! Not in uniform mind you, but they were there nonetheless!

EXPLAIN THAT!

There have been other cases as well. They are documented all over the web.
:afro:

 

it is awesome. However, the truth is that you don't gain such ability out of nothingness. Your body starts spending more energy, and that energy is taken at the cost of something else. Healthy human body already functions at its optimal energy expenditure to sustain itself. If you wanted superpowers like controlling time perception, it would cost you a lot more physiologically. As a result of which you might contract health issues, have a shorter life expectancy, etc. eventually it wouldn't be worth whatever you get paid for your job. Also, cocaine, a stimulant that among other effects slows down the passage of time, is speculated to age the brain faster upon regular usage. It makes sense too when you think about what it does. Cocaine itself contains no energy that the human body can use, it just makes your body spend more of its own energy in certain specific ways which produces the effects it's known for. Thus it would make sense if as a result of that your brain aged faster. It's not conclusive yet and maybe there are other factors involved that influence that but if true I can completely understand it.

The deja vu thing, my opinion on that is that it's just some things a person has come in contact with during their life but doesn't actively remember it, and the new situation resembles those other circumstances in some way and from there you get that sensation of familiarity. It's memories you've forgotten about. The reason why I think this is how it is is because I had something like that happen. I had a deja vu about something and later on I realized that it resembled something I had dreamt about a couple of days before the event. I understood that that's where I got the 'i've been here before' sensation from. As it was the dream and real life were only a couple of days apart so I was able to connect them. Much further apart than that and you will no longer draw such a connection.

Dreaming about the future, seeing ghosts, dead people and what not...i don't really know. My own best friend claims that he saw the burning WTC in his dream just days before they were attacked. When I asked him about his dream in more detail he expressed that he had seen two towers that were smoking. But they weren't world trade center building in his dream. Just two anonymous smoking towers. It was after the attack that he placed them as WTC. In his case it think his dream and real life were just a coincidence. and I think a lot of those other 'future visions' are the same. Coincidences that people later place more specifically as something takes place that resembles it a lot.
Then there are people who claim they have seen dead people. I have no experience and neither do any of my close friends. But friends of friends have supposedly had such experiences. Seen a person after their funeral sitting at a table in a bar, for example. I have no idea what to make of that except that it's some sort of freak hallucination. If you can make your brain speed up its processing under physical danger, it follows logically that under emotional stress a person could trick their brain into hallucinating in some specific sort of way. You're going through emotional stress about that specific person thus you are stimulating parts of your brain where memories etc associated with that person are located, and thus he is also the subject of your hallucination. It seems to make sense. Of course, I don't really know.

I'm not really sure what you mean when you ask about dreaming of the past. What kind of past? The past the person hasn't lived, like centuries ago or something? Have there been experiences like that? This is the first time I hear of anything like it in real life.

 

I think it proves you are a time traveler....

 

There are other documented cases about people dreaming about the past and not knowing anything about the past.

An example is I saw a show once where this guy supposedly had a dream about a battle, and then he and his buddies said no way, so they went out and to prove them wrong they got out the shovels and dug where the guy said a captain had died in the 1500s and said he still had the sword through his chest.. Well, they dug down about 20 feet and nothing, they were going to call it quits when what do you know... PayDirt.. They found the skeleton of the captain, sword and all. They asked the local historical society and they didn't know anything about any battle that took place there, or anything else... So... How DID he know?

 

i don't have the answer to that. but eventually even that must be explained so that it makes sense.

we all have this thing called intuition. some have it better than others. it is a somewhat similar thing to that, if more explicit and specific. so maybe your past dreams (if actually true events; internet reports and even films don't go a long way in making these claims actually true. there are also people out there who claim to have been abducted by the UFOs and 'documentaries' have been made on the subject of UFOs, area 51, etc; all fake documentaries by the way) are a similar sort of thing/phenomenon. i've also thought that maybe it is possible to pass on some sort of information on life experience genetically (from parents to child). it's just an idea. that way everything your ancestors went through in their life could be 'stored' 'somewhere' in you. that could hypothetically give rise to accurate dreams about the past to happen. again, it's just an idea. and i'm not even taking these past dreams seriously, since i don't have a source on them that has any credibility to them.

most likely the explanation for this is something really simple. like that guy finding the skeleton and associating one of his dreams with it post-find.