Albert Einstein said "Time Travel is possible"

Is Albert Einstein right? Citrus25

Maybe into the future a little, but not "Back to the Future" style.

Into the future by flying away and back to the earth at light speed.

Maybe into the future a little, but not "Back to the Future" style.

dog64

Traveling to the future would be irrelavent because once you came back to the present time, the future you saw would no longer exist because you know about it, and even traveling back in time could and would have catostrpohic events for the present time/future.

The "simple" explanation...

Einstein is overrated

I remember hearing something from a TV show about how you could actually alter time, by going fast enough, like the speed of light. I don't remember the specifics though, nor what TV show it was...

If you believe E=mc^2 is true, then anything at speeds greater than the speed of light is considered time travel.

The only person who could get away with time travelling is Lebron James. AMIRITE!?Bruin4ev3r1520

Epic :lol:

No i dont think so. Think about it this way...you're a 50 year old guy. You go back in time and see yourself when you're 13. You take a gun and kill your 13 year old self. How would you have been able to grow up to be 50 if you were dead at 13? It just doesn't make sense to me.

I'm pretty sure there was an article about a nasa orbiting space craft going over 17,000MPH in orbit that happened to be traveling time faster than people on earth by a very very small fraction, look the link up.

Albert Einstein didn't know everything.Immortalica

You know Albert Einstein was brillant in math. But in everything else he was basically special ed right?MgamerBD

[QUOTE="Bruin4ev3r1520"]The only person who could get away with time travelling is Lebron James. AMIRITE!?taj7575

Epic :lol:

Wow, I just got that. :lol:

Most of the people on here are speculating, but I have the definitive answer. Time travel is possible, however, there are some restrictions.The truth is you cannot travel into the past. You can only travel into the future and then back to the point in time in which you traveled forward. But the problem is it takes massive amounts of energy to do this and there is no way we could harness that type of energy. You would literally have to tear apart the fabric of space/time. So, in summary, time travel is theoretically possible to a certain extent, but it is highly improbable of occuring.

anything not proven impossible is possible

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[QUOTE="Bruin4ev3r1520"]The only person who could get away with time travelling is Lebron James. AMIRITE!?SaintBlaze

Epic :lol:

Wow, I just got that. :lol:

I don't get it?

I can see traveling to the future, but I don't know about going back in time. I mean, if someone could time travel back in time, then why hasn't anyone from the future traveled here yet? (Assuming that person went back in time just to tell people he was from the future)

Astronauts have already travelled forward in time, albeit by very small amounts.

No i dont think so. Think about it this way...you're a 50 year old guy. You go back in time and see yourself when you're 13. You take a gun and kill your 13 year old self. How would you have been able to grow up to be 50 if you were dead at 13? It just doesn't make sense to me.

Darkmatter88

That doesn't mean time travel isn't possible, that is just one of the consequences of time travel. What you described is a time paradox.

If it's possible to time travel, how come we don't see any time travellers from the future in our society right now?

actually, time travel has been proven. if you place an atomic clock on a geosynchronous satellite, it's time will slowly get ahead of an identical one on earth directly below it. NASA did it. moving fractions of the speed of light slow time proportionately, the only reason this was not proven earlier is that even a geosynchronous sattellite is orbitting earth at around 1/100000 the speed of light.

Possible to travel into the future, impossible to travel into the past.

Technically, travelling both to the past and to the future would be possible (sort of).

To travel to the past, your consciousness would need to be expanded. Meaning shots, chips, or any other way of allowing you full access to your mind. A human mind remembers more than you know. You might not remember remembering something, but the memory remains (Metallica reference FTW). So, you wouldn't actually be able to go back in time, but... well, anyone see Fringe? Olivia entered the isolation tank with a cocktail of LSD, and other hallucinogens. I don't remember the exact science behind it, but there could be a way to take you away from life, and keep you entirely in touch with your mind, enhanced by the chip, or the shot, or whatever you have in you to expand your conscious mind. You could enter a world of memories of your past, and alter them as you wish. It would seem so real due to the expanded consciousness and the drugs, that you would believe that you actually travelled back into your past. Sure it wouldn't be real, but it would work the same way without any consequences.

Travelling to the future would be harder, but still possibly possible. It would follow the same path as "travelling" to the past, involving drug cocktails (suddenly science is fun) and full brain function. Theoretically, it would be possible, but entirely impractical.

You would need to have some kind of machine that links one person's brain to another (fringe science or bust!), but it would require the participation of... well, everyone on the planet. Life is based on a series of choices, all of which include everyone else, whether directly or not. So the machine would be able to link everyone together, and everyone would know each other's secrets; what they plan to do, what they're hiding, etc. Using the same method as backward time-travel, you would use this collective consciousness to... basically imagine the future as everyone is planning to control it. If everyone knows what everyone is planning, the future can occur in the present.

Obviously it would never happen. Even if that sort of device existed, there are too many people who value their secrets more than seeing the future. Government, terrorist, hormonal teenager alike.

So it wouldn't be possible to ACTUALLY move to the future or the past, but you could imagine it so vividly that it seems exactly like you were actually in the future or the past.

i don't know. albert einstein isn't the "be all, end all" of the world so maybe he isn't right :P

Technically, travelling both to the past and to the future would be possible (sort of).

To travel to the past, your consciousness would need to be expanded. Meaning shots, chips, or any other way of allowing you full access to your mind. A human mind remembers more than you know. You might not remember remembering something, but the memory remains (Metallica reference FTW). So, you wouldn't actually be able to go back in time, but... well, anyone see Fringe? Olivia entered the isolation tank with a cocktail of LSD, and other hallucinogens. I don't remember the exact science behind it, but there could be a way to take you away from life, and keep you entirely in touch with your mind, enhanced by the chip, or the shot, or whatever you have in you to expand your conscious mind. You could enter a world of memories of your past, and alter them as you wish. It would seem so real due to the expanded consciousness and the drugs, that you would believe that you actually travelled back into your past. Sure it wouldn't be real, but it would work the same way without any consequences.

Travelling to the future would be harder, but still possibly possible. It would follow the same path as "travelling" to the past, involving drug cocktails (suddenly science is fun) and full brain function. Theoretically, it would be possible, but entirely impractical.

You would need to have some kind of machine that links one person's brain to another (fringe science or bust!), but it would require the participation of... well, everyone on the planet. Life is based on a series of choices, all of which include everyone else, whether directly or not. So the machine would be able to link everyone together, and everyone would know each other's secrets; what they plan to do, what they're hiding, etc. Using the same method as backward time-travel, you would use this collective consciousness to... basically imagine the future as everyone is planning to control it. If everyone knows what everyone is planning, the future can occur in the present.

Obviously it would never happen. Even if that sort of device existed, there are too many people who value their secrets more than seeing the future. Government, terrorist, hormonal teenager alike.

So it wouldn't be possible to ACTUALLY move to the future or the past, but you could imagine it so vividly that it seems exactly like you were actually in the future or the past.

_IronManDude_

Actually yes it is possible to move to the future. The faster you go the slower time travels, therefore you could spend 10 years flying 99% the speed of light and when you get back to Earth, 100 years has passed. It's not instant like a time machine but you essentially just traveled into the future. However it is not possible to physically go into the past, only mentally like you said.

Everythign is possible if you think with portals.

Albert Einstein didn't know everything.Immortalica

Actually yes it is possible to move to the future. The faster you go the slower time travels, therefore you could spend 10 years flying 99% the speed of light and when you get back to Earth, 100 years has passed. It's not instant like a time machine but you essentially just traveled into the future. However it is not possible to physically go into the past, only mentally like you said.howlrunner13

I suppose it is theoretically just as possible as my theory. But also just as plausible, so not at all.That would either require everyone on Earth to somehow move nearly the speed of light, or just one person (slightly less impossible).

But that seems almost the same as just letting the future come, just with a little more movement.

You know Albert Einstein was brillant in math. But in everything else he was basically special ed right?MgamerBD

[QUOTE="howlrunner13"]Actually yes it is possible to move to the future. The faster you go the slower time travels, therefore you could spend 10 years flying 99% the speed of light and when you get back to Earth, 100 years has passed. It's not instant like a time machine but you essentially just traveled into the future. However it is not possible to physically go into the past, only mentally like you said._IronManDude_

I suppose it is theoretically just as possible as my theory. But also just as plausible, so not at all.That would either require everyone on Earth to somehow move nearly the speed of light, or just one person (slightly less impossible).

But that seems almost the same as just letting the future come, just with a little more movement.

What? Only one person would be moving at close to the speed of light. And it's not quite the same when the difference is 100's of years.

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[QUOTE="howlrunner13"]Actually yes it is possible to move to the future. The faster you go the slower time travels, therefore you could spend 10 years flying 99% the speed of light and when you get back to Earth, 100 years has passed. It's not instant like a time machine but you essentially just traveled into the future. However it is not possible to physically go into the past, only mentally like you said.howlrunner13

I suppose it is theoretically just as possible as my theory. But also just as plausible, so not at all.That would either require everyone on Earth to somehow move nearly the speed of light, or just one person (slightly less impossible).

But that seems almost the same as just letting the future come, just with a little more movement.

What? Only one person would be moving at close to the speed of light. And it's not quite the same when the difference is 100's of years.

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[QUOTE="_IronManDude_"]

I suppose it is theoretically just as possible as my theory. But also just as plausible, so not at all.That would either require everyone on Earth to somehow move nearly the speed of light, or just one person (slightly less impossible).

But that seems almost the same as just letting the future come, just with a little more movement.

_IronManDude_

What? Only one person would be moving at close to the speed of light. And it's not quite the same when the difference is 100's of years.

You are not going the speed of light. You are going close to the speed of light. This is of course if we have the technology. But physical time travel into the future is possible. Your idea for the future is not time travel, it's foresight.

[QUOTE="_IronManDude_"][QUOTE="howlrunner13"]

What? Only one person would be moving at close to the speed of light. And it's not quite the same when the difference is 100's of years.

howlrunner13

You are not going the speed of light. You are going close to the speed of light. This is of course if we have the technology. But physical time travel into the future is possible. Your idea for the future is not time travel, it's foresight.

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[QUOTE="_IronManDude_"] But your idea is impossible for a human. Maybe for a "geosynchronous clock", but a human could not withstand speed-of-light travel, it would rip him apart. As far-fetched as it sounds, my idea actually is more doable._IronManDude_

You are not going the speed of light. You are going close to the speed of light. This is of course if we have the technology. But physical time travel into the future is possible. Your idea for the future is not time travel, it's foresight.

Again this is assuming the technology exists to sustain that speed. And it doesn't have to be 99.999% of the speed of light. It could be 80% or something. As for your linking idea it is still not time travel.