Dude, been working on that too.
Posted on 05/18/2010 2:19:49 AM PDT by SwaggerStick
I believe time travel is possible and in the future time travel will be harnessed. Perhaps harnessed is the wrong word and should be replaced with managed. That’s it, I believe time travel can be managed and at sometime in the future we will learn how to manage this time travel. But there is a caveat, time travel is only possible into the past, there will never be a way to time travel into the future. For in the true sense, time is but a serial event consisting of the passage of previous events in time.
When we talk about a Time Machine we usually think about traveling into the future or traveling backwards in time. And for the most part our thoughts are for selfish reasons, or maybe I should say, for our personal enjoyment or gain. Perhaps we would like to travel back in time so we could enrich ourselves by wagering on a horse that we know would win a future race, maybe we would like to travel back in time so we could be youthful again. We can also think of many reasons to travel forward in time, like advancing time one hour after that dentist appointment or one hour after some other unpleasant task in front of you.
To contemplate the reality of traveling forward in time means you really have to stretch the imagination, you have to start thinking like Buck Rogers. There are a lot of so called possible ways to travel into the future, wormholes, speed of light travel, etc. But in reality these are only ways to slow down time for those going through the wormholes or traveling at the speed of light, for everyone else time will march on. And the big problem for those who manage to slow time down; there is no way to go back in time. If you could slow time down for yourself while the rest of the world moves on, what good would come of it? Maybe if you’re dying of some disease and want to slow time down for yourself until the rest of the world discovers a cure that might be a good reason but when you step out of that Time Machine who will you know, will your home still be yours, will any money you have be worth anything, and will you even like what you see?
To contemplate the reality of traveling backwards in time is a whole different situation and I believe it to be very possible. Now, I must throw in another caveat, it is possible for a single being to travel back in time while the rest of the world travels forward in time. In fact, everyday there are many people traveling back in time, but they are doing it on an individual basis.
The idea of traveling backwards in time needs a more specific definition and a consensus of understanding. The reality of traveling backwards in time is a mental state not a physical state. There will never be a way to physically travel backwards in time, you will never be able to make yourself physically present at some previous time event.
Lets say fifty years ago you watched Ted Williams hit a home run in Fenway Park. You can go back to Fenway Park and sit in that same seat, but Ted Williams will never appear and while you’re sitting in that seat you will not be fifty years younger.
I believe the human brain remembers every single second of our lives. And every second of our life is a time event. These time events are all safely stowed away in serial fashion just as they occurred. Everyday people are being hypnotized to recall some string of time events that they cannot voluntarily recall.
Lets say fifty years ago you watched Ted Williams hit a home run in Fenway Park. Now lets say technology has advanced to the point at which a couple of electrodes can direct your brain to recall any time event from the past. You sit back in your easy chair, put on a cap that contains those electrodes, set the event timer for fifty years ago and set the duration for three hours. For the next three hours your mind in vivid detail is recalling every second that passed as you watched the game in Fenway Park fifty years ago. You’ll even taste the hot dog you ate, hear the sounds, and smell the smells. For all practicable purposes – you have gone back in time. This is not only possible, it will happen in the future. It’s a simple matter of memory recall.
The scientific community can study black holes, wormholes, speed of light travel, etc,, but it will be medical technology that truly brings us back to the past.
I was looking for schematics. :)
First, start with a Delorean, since it has a stainless steel body . . .
The subject of time travel is always amusing. It might be possible to observe retroactively.
By traveling faster than the speed of light, you would outrun the images of events, then when you stopped, the imagery would catch up with you serially, making it possible to "look back over your shoulder" at events. Physically traveling, I would agree, is the stuff of science fiction.
If anyone actually succeeded in creating a time machine, I think a significant part of their strategy would involve making sure that theirs was the only machine existing. To do so, the time traveler would have to keep up with other peoples' development of time travel, because they would have to go back and derail anyone else's attempts.
Otherwise, one evil person getting control of such a machine could go back, destroy any other efforts, and monopolize the ability -- and the manipulation of events -- for themselves.
We already travel through time, always forward into the future. The problem is with changing direction and/or speed.
You are time traveling right now.
Imagine your existence in time as a line from birth farthest to the left and into the future to the right. This line stretches into infinity - in both the past and future directions.
Imagine that a dot is moving along this line from the past to the future. It can only go from past to future, and cannot move faster than any other dot.
Now since you’ve stepped back away from the line, you can jump back in at any point - or into any future point.
Since there is a speed limit along the line, your actions in a past create a new future that proceeds up the line - but never can catch up with future events - since they’ve already ocurred for that dot 250 years ahead. Parallel time - but not really parallel. Time exists as a complete entity - infinitely from beginning to end. You could always jump back to point a, witness and/or interact to affect historical events or take the market by storm. Jump back again to point a - and everything will still be the same as it was on the first jump. Jump ahead - and it would be as if everything you just did had not happened. No stocks, and Obama is still president.
Hence - movies like the new ‘Star Trek’(2009)with 2 Spocks existing within the same time might make more sense than ‘Terminator’, where a “time event dot” could somehow speed along the line and instantly change all time.
...and yes - I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night.
This is’t Star Trek, this is Free Republic.
or Perhaps you are hear to make us look foolish...
This is totally bogus. I invented a time machine. Currently it only works into the future and at a speed of 1x.
Who wants unaged cheese?
You have it backwards. It is possible to travel into the future, just not into the past. Time travel into the past almost certainly violates the “grandfather paradox”, in other words causality. (The one caveat to this is if in fact there are an infinite number of parallel universes, then “time travel” might be possible as instead a trip into a different universe.)
However, time travel into the future is certainly possible, and very likely at rates other than “1x”. The two most likely possibilities there are suspended animation of some kind, or relativistic time compression. One known possibility for the relativistic form would be to approach the event horizon of a large black hole such as are at the center of almost every galaxy. If the black hole is large enough, the tidal forces won’t rip you into pieces as you approach.
Dude, been working on that too.
I already time travel. The admins zotted you back on May 16, 2007. You time jumped just prior to the ozone smell. Please sit still this time and keep your hands off of the flux capacitor.
We now know the airplane, steam engine, electricty, etc. were once in our future. Likewise time travel, if possibile is somewhere in our future, wheather 300 yrs from now or 300,000 it may be a reality.
I once took a connecting flight from Atlanta, Georgia to Huntsville, Alabama. The flight left Atlanta at 11:00 AM, but landed in Huntsville at 10:45 AM.
Time is an illusion. There’s nothing to travel back into. The past isn’t just past - it no longer exists. There is only now.
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Ya know SS, you really need to start filtering that firewater you brew through something other than a 1939 Ford truck radiator, and start drinking a lot less of it...
Time travel can be done but only to the future.
Now I think I’m going down to the well tonight
and I’m going to drink till I get my fill
And I hope when I get old I don’t sit around thinking about it
but I probably will
Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture
a little of the glory of, well time slips away
and leaves you with nothing mister but
boring stories of glory days
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