Time Travel. Theoretically possible?

While it's generally accepted that foward time travel is indeed possible (if you accelerate to high speeds time actually passes slower for you than for everyone else), I have my doubts about time travel to the past. The law of conservation of mass and energy states that the amount of mass/energy in the universe is constant. If one was to travel into the past where would the extra mass/energy come from?Anybody looked into this subject much? This is just one of those things that I lie awake at night thinking about.

I'm with you with on the going into the future part and with the not being able to into the past part.

1. If you look thru history when we think we've figured out a good chunk of science and later we find out we were wrong.

2. Some folks at MIT already had the first and only time traveler convention and nobody showed who was open about being a time traveler...

This is just my opinion on the subject but as a person who believes in god I don't think that it would be possible.I think that god controls time and space.If he let us do maybe but I don't think he would allow things like that to happen.Cause if found a way to go forward or back think of the things that could happen.Want to win a war lets go back in time and wipe em out before it starts.Bad things would indeed take place.

Humans abuse every known tech we have to some destructive extent.Look at the atom bomb.Atomic energy was intended to be used for a better energy source instead we use it to blow up millions of people at once.I do think however that its possible to teleport and even travel light speed.Heck I was reading an article some where that said they teleported a apple or something from a short point in a lab somewhere.To me thats pretty crazy.It will also be used for war like purposes though just watch.Why send in a jet when you can teleport a H bomb over instead.Still I dont think that we'll be around to even see this put to use because regardless of what people say there are those out who want power and have the money and resources to use things like this to gain that power,and I believe that God will ahve to step in and say ok you've done enough damage its time to stop.

This is just my opinion on the subject but as a person who believes in god I don't think that it would be possible.I think that god controls time and space.If he let us do maybe but I don't think he would allow things like that to happen.Cause if found a way to go forward or back think of the things that could happen.Want to win a war lets go back in time and wipe em out before it starts.Bad things would indeed take place.

Humans abuse every known tech we have to some destructive extent.Look at the atom bomb.Atomic energy was intended to be used for a better energy source instead we use it to blow up millions of people at once.I do think however that its possible to teleport and even travel light speed.Heck I was reading an article some where that said they teleported a apple or something from a short point in a lab somewhere.To me thats pretty crazy.It will also be used for war like purposes though just watch.Why send in a jet when you can teleport a H bomb ever instead.

fubbal

If you think about it, your not really travelling into the future, your just getting there slightly faster then everyone else.

On the program "the Universe" is said: if you stand at the top of a forty story building for 150 years, you would travel forward in time, half a milisecond.

As of now, not possible. Maybe in the future....possibly.

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This is just my opinion on the subject but as a person who believes in god I don't think that it would be possible.I think that god controls time and space.If he let us do maybe but I don't think he would allow things like that to happen.Cause if found a way to go forward or back think of the things that could happen.Want to win a war lets go back in time and wipe em out before it starts.Bad things would indeed take place.

Humans abuse every known tech we have to some destructive extent.Look at the atom bomb.Atomic energy was intended to be used for a better energy source instead we use it to blow up millions of people at once.I do think however that its possible to teleport and even travel light speed.Heck I was reading an article some where that said they teleported a apple or something from a short point in a lab somewhere.To me thats pretty crazy.It will also be used for war like purposes though just watch.Why send in a jet when you can teleport a H bomb ever instead.

cjek

As of now, not possible.

Desulated

Thanks for clearing that up. I was under the impression that back to the future was based on a true story.

This is just my opinion on the subject but as a person who believes in god I don't think that it would be possible.I think that god controls time and space.If he let us do maybe but I don't think he would allow things like that to happen.Cause if found a way to go forward or back think of the things that could happen.Want to win a war lets go back in time and wipe em out before it starts.Bad things would indeed take place.

Humans abuse every known tech we have to some destructive extent.Look at the atom bomb.Atomic energy was intended to be used for a better energy source instead we use it to blow up millions of people at once.I do think however that its possible to teleport and even travel light speed.Heck I was reading an article some where that said they teleported a apple or something from a short point in a lab somewhere.To me thats pretty crazy.It will also be used for war like purposes though just watch.Why send in a jet when you can teleport a H bomb over instead.Still I dont think that we'll be around to even see this put to use because regardless of what people say there are those out who want power and have the money and resources to use things like this to gain that power,and I believe that God will ahve to step in and say ok you've done enough damage its time to stop.

fubbal

Nope, it's not possible If you can't travel in both pereceived directions of time.. then all you're doing is moving into time at a different rate of speed.

If you think about it, your not really travelling into the future, your just getting there slightly faster then everyone else.

On the program "the Universe" is said: if you stand at the top of a forty story building for 150 years, you would travel forward in time, half a milisecond.

gamedude2020

While it's generally accepted that foward time travel is indeed possible (if you accelerate to high speeds time actually passes slower for you than for everyone else), I have my doubts about time travel to the past. The law of conservation of mass and energy states that the amount of mass/energy in the universe is constant. If one was to travel into the past where would the extra mass/energy come from?Anybody looked into this subject much? This is just one of those things that I lie awake at night thinking about.

Penguinchow

Theoretically time travel to the past is possible if you can travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum (300000000m/s), so far nothing can travel faster than that. You can actually decrease the speed of light by passing through different mediums such as water or oil but that wont help with time travel. Also you made that point on the high speeds make time go by slower than for others, that is why you age less while in space, but if time is slower for you (say 2 seconds go by for you and 10 go by for everyone else) you are actually in the past to them.

Another thing to think about is if the future hasnt happened yet how can you travel to it

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As of now, not possible.

gamedude2020

Thanks for clearing that up. I was under the impression that back to the future was based on a true story.

Well such a project would cost billions of dollars, more expensive than pretty much anything in mankind.

This is just my opinion on the subject but as a person who believes in god I don't think that it would be possible.I think that god controls time and space.If he let us do maybe but I don't think he would allow things like that to happen.Cause if found a way to go forward or back think of the things that could happen.Want to win a war lets go back in time and wipe em out before it starts.Bad things would indeed take place.

Humans abuse every known tech we have to some destructive extent.Look at the atom bomb.Atomic energy was intended to be used for a better energy source instead we use it to blow up millions of people at once.I do think however that its possible to teleport and even travel light speed.Heck I was reading an article some where that said they teleported a apple or something from a short point in a lab somewhere.To me thats pretty crazy.It will also be used for war like purposes though just watch.Why send in a jet when you can teleport a H bomb ever instead.

LOST did it = Time travel exists. :P

Time travel to the past does not work unless there is a multiverse rather than a universe. There has to been many parallel universes for time travel into the past to work.

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While it's generally accepted that foward time travel is indeed possible (if you accelerate to high speeds time actually passes slower for you than for everyone else), I have my doubts about time travel to the past. The law of conservation of mass and energy states that the amount of mass/energy in the universe is constant. If one was to travel into the past where would the extra mass/energy come from?Anybody looked into this subject much? This is just one of those things that I lie awake at night thinking about.

aequitas31

Theoretically time travel to the past is possible if you can travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum (300000000m/s), so far nothing can travel faster than that. You can actually decrease the speed of light by passing through different mediums such as water or oil but that wont help with time travel. Also you made that point on the high speeds make time go by slower than for others, that is why you age less while in space, but if time is slower for you (say 2 seconds go by for you and 10 go by for everyone else) you are actually in the past to them.

Another thing to think about is if the future hasnt happened yet how can you travel to it

[QUOTE="Penguinchow"]

While it's generally accepted that foward time travel is indeed possible (if you accelerate to high speeds time actually passes slower for you than for everyone else), I have my doubts about time travel to the past. The law of conservation of mass and energy states that the amount of mass/energy in the universe is constant. If one was to travel into the past where would the extra mass/energy come from?Anybody looked into this subject much? This is just one of those things that I lie awake at night thinking about.

aequitas31

Theoretically time travel to the past is possible if you can travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum (300000000m/s), so far nothing can travel faster than that. You can actually decrease the speed of light by passing through different mediums such as water or oil but that wont help with time travel. Also you made that point on the high speeds make time go by slower than for others, that is why you age less while in space, but if time is slower for you (say 2 seconds go by for you and 10 go by for everyone else) you are actually in the past to them.

Another thing to think about is if the future hasnt happened yet how can you travel to it

trying to understand the concept of time travel gives me a headache....

http://www.unreasonableman.net/2006/10/scientists_tele.html

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,482264,00.html

Ok this is a bit different from an apple but still impresive!

In his book "Physics of the Impossible", Dr. Michio Kaku (who helped to come up with string theory as I understand it) claims that time travel may indeed be possible, but if so not until the very distant future.

[QUOTE="Penguinchow"]

While it's generally accepted that foward time travel is indeed possible (if you accelerate to high speeds time actually passes slower for you than for everyone else), I have my doubts about time travel to the past. The law of conservation of mass and energy states that the amount of mass/energy in the universe is constant. If one was to travel into the past where would the extra mass/energy come from?Anybody looked into this subject much? This is just one of those things that I lie awake at night thinking about.

aequitas31

Theoretically time travel to the past is possible if you can travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum (300000000m/s), so far nothing can travel faster than that. You can actually decrease the speed of light by passing through different mediums such as water or oil but that wont help with time travel. Also you made that point on the high speeds make time go by slower than for others, that is why you age less while in space, but if time is slower for you (say 2 seconds go by for you and 10 go by for everyone else) you are actually in the past to them.

Another thing to think about is if the future hasnt happened yet how can you travel to it

Future is obviously possible, seeing as it has to be taken into account for things like GPS. The satellites travel so fast that over many years they actually are further forward in time than we are, to put it simply. But we're talking about tiny fractions of a second here, but for such accurate applications such as GPS it can make all the difference. We don't know enough yet to understand about backwards time travel, but there's a lot we don't understand about the universe I guess.cjek

Even if you could your clothes wouldn't!!biggest_loser

[QUOTE="biggest_loser"]Even if you could your clothes wouldn't!!Penguinchow

Most research I've done was into the philosophy of time, and said research seems to unambiguouslysupport the negative, in that time travel is NOT possible. That is because future moments and past moments of time do not actually exist, only present moments exist. If past and future moments dont exist, then what are you traveling to?

That being said, I think the wormhole/spaceship experiment is flawed. Assuming that wormholes are even possible, then persons in the "motionless" wormhole wouldn't have the same experience as the person in the spaceship fast-moving wormhole.

1. If you look thru history when we think we've figured out a good chunk of science and later we find out we were wrong.

duxup

Well, if you think about it, it is theoretically possible to accelerate to a speed that is faster than anything, being as all set proccesses have a set speed correlating to them. (ex: sound, light) Here is my take on this though. If you accelerate to a speed that is faster than the aging process with the intention of returning back and being in the future, wouldn't you be doing the exact opposite? If you accelerate past aging processes, you would still age the same, but if you got back, it would be less time for the rest of the world. Since that was probably confusing, I'll put it a different way. If you are racing a beam of light, and you travel much faster than the speed of light, you would have time to go from the start to finish and back with enough time to beat the beam for a second time. The amount of time the person has percieved to be gone would be much more than the beam of light, (lets just say the beam had a brain...) and therefore would be having the reverse effect of future travel. Instead you would be aging faster than the rest of the world, but not going into the past either, being as that would require a way to actually reverse the processes of the body and the universe. Does anyone follow me on this or is it still to confusing?Hellfire-1

While it's generally accepted that foward time travel is indeed possible (if you accelerate to high speeds time actually passes slower for you than for everyone else), I have my doubts about time travel to the past. The law of conservation of mass and energy states that the amount of mass/energy in the universe is constant. If one was to travel into the past where would the extra mass/energy come from?Anybody looked into this subject much? This is just one of those things that I lie awake at night thinking about.

Penguinchow

Most research I've done was into the philosophy of time, and said research seems to unambiguouslysupport the negative, in that time travel is NOT possible. That is because future moments and past moments of time do not actually exist, only present moments exist. If past and future moments dont exist, then what are you traveling to?

That being said, I think the wormhole/spaceship experiment is flawed. Assuming that wormholes are even possible, then persons in the "motionless" wormhole wouldn't have the same experience as the person in the spaceship fast-moving wormhole.

Most research I've done was into the philosophy of time, and said research seems to unambiguouslysupport the negative, in that time travel is NOT possible. That is because future moments and past moments of time do not actually exist, only present moments exist. If past and future moments dont exist, then what are you traveling to?

That being said, I think the wormhole/spaceship experiment is flawed. Assuming that wormholes are even possible, then persons in the "motionless" wormhole wouldn't have the same experience as the person in the spaceship fast-moving wormhole.

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Quite simply, no. Going forward into what hasn't happened yet isn't possible. What hasn't happened hasn't happened.mr_poodles123

Do you have a flux capacitor and 1.21 gigawatts of electricity?