Time travel, will it ever happen?

[quote name='Sleepkyng']as long as you believe time exists, it does :D

clap your hands three times![/quote]

yup. Woot using what i learned in physics on a cag fourm :D
 
[quote name='Graystone']This thread could go on for ages. Well only if time existed.[/QUOTE]


the internet is not a good place to use for an example of time...someone could quote this post in the year 2040 and rip time a new asshole by typing as if I had just posted this and was awaiting responses. without a time stamp, no one would know the difference.


I could go on forever like this but I don't what I'm talking about at all. all I can say is that perception plays too large of a role in the concept of time for me to believe that anyone could get a grasp of how to manipulate it--just theories. but that's just my uninformed, non-physicist perspective. yuk yuk.
 
Time travel to the future is a definite possibility, as time is relative to speed. Reaching speeds necessary to go far into the future of a particular observer will be difficult and will require great advances in technology. However, if such speeds were attainable, then a person could leave our planet, spend a few days in space at high speed, then return to find that many years had passed for those who had remained on Earth.
 
[quote name='onikage']Time travel to the future is a definite possibility, as time is relative to speed. Reaching speeds necessary to go far into the future of a particular observer will be difficult and will require great advances in technology. However, if such speeds were attainable, then a person could leave our planet, spend a few days in space at high speed, then return to find that many years had passed for those who had remained on Earth.[/QUOTE]

But if time doesn't exist like some are saying then that person wouldn't come back years later. Time exists people.
 
Well, you can get close to a black hole. Time slows down there supposedly. Then come back to earth later and say to everyone, I CAME FROM THE PAST!!! Anyways it's late, sorry for the random post.
 
[quote name='suko_32']Well, you can get close to a black hole. Time slows down there supposedly. Then come back to earth later and say to everyone, I CAME FROM THE PAST!!! Anyways it's late, sorry for the random post.[/quote]

Nothing is random in the world of time travel.
 
As far as people saying "If time travels exist, how come we haven't seen them?" - I think if technology has progressed enough to go back in time, they would most likely have the tech to stay hidden from view...
 
There's a tribe in Brazil that has no concept of numbers or time. While this isn't really on the subject of time travel, I think it does demonstrate that time can be relative.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,414291,00.html

http://www.jcrows.com/withoutnumbers.html

I think this supports that time is a cultural concept created to measure and label points/events in our lives.

Good beginner's website to theories of time and time travel:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/time/through.html
 
Of course it's possible, that's how people on eBay get sealed copies of non-greatest hits games and sell them for hundreds of dollars.
 
[quote name='mang9432']i'd probably go back in time and wipe better before i layed down on my new white bedsheets[/QUOTE]


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[quote name='Pookymeister']As far as people saying "If time travels exist, how come we haven't seen them?" - I think if technology has progressed enough to go back in time, they would most likely have the tech to stay hidden from view...[/QUOTE]

I think it's more that we live in a boring age and no one wants to visit us.
 
I remember an old tech tv program that talked about time travial and sadly they concluded that you cant do it with current technology.
 
I think one of the best explanations that I've seen comes from the Wikipedia article on time travel.

Summarizing from the article, Steven Hawkins suggested at one point that since we haven't seen any tourist from the future, the technology has not been invented during any point in human history.

But he also acknowledges that time travel technology is limited and people can only go back so far as the technology is available. So for example if in 2010 scientist find a way to time travel, you're only limited to going back to 2010 and not now in 2007.

In the end though, Hawkins does rule it out time travel with his chronology protection conjecture which states that the forces needed to travel through time is too great for a machine either destroying the machine at the time of creation or preventing anyone outside from entering it.

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