Time Travel

Do you think it is possible?
If so, do you think it is possible to go forward, backwards, etc.?
Do you think it is possible to change the past?

As long as SE have nothing to do with it, they suck at messing with time travel.

I think, if anything space age wtf crazy is to be messed with, point to point relocation should be looked into before time to time.

Hell, they don't even have time travel in Star Trek, aside from that one episode of Voyager I saw, oh and the Q.

As for is it possible? Not at the moment, maybe in the future.

Time travel is possible according to Einstein, but only forward, and only when we can reach light speed, even then its not controllable. One second at light speed is supposed to be a ridiculous leap forward.

I time travel about every other weekend.

Go out drinking...drink a little too much...and wake up the next day not remembering how I got there. AKA time travel.

LOL same here Excesspain, lol love that answer.

Honestly imo, I don't think anyone can "travel through time" Time is just a concept that we made up.

Even though quantum physics "discusses" it, that part of science is still much like religion. The only thing bringing about truth is the faith one has in it. It's all still theories, and nobody can test these theories. Time travel is really the same as God, ghosts, and aliens in that it can be neither proven nor disproven, and faith is all there really is to make it true/untrue. From what I know for certain is that, yes, time was created as a unit of measurement by people to keep track of things, and as far as my beliefs go, time travel is impossible as the only thing that really exists is change. And as I'm sure everybody can agree to, once something is changed, it cannot be restored back to what it was prior to the changes.

Apparently this guy does.


I often wonder when I get deja vu if it's related to that or feelings in a past life.

Of course scientist( some anyways) believe time travel is possible. They say the power needed to manipulate it is way out of our range at this time.
You can check out youtube to get explained the physics side of this, its interesting.

The wanted ad is funny.

Time travel is easy, finding a flux capacitor now thats hard.

Or a Mr. Fusion!

Time travel is only possible in theory. tbh i doubt it is possible. Admit it, your not traveling through time in a ghostbuster-car ;P

Please, if it was possible to time travel, I would have exploited that *** quicker than......(hmm, can't really say Michael Jackson on a boy, that would be tactless atm.....)....anyway, I would be super rich and possibly rule the world....

I think it was a physics class i was once i the teacher was saying if there are a set of identical twins and one goes to the moon and the other stays on earth the one who goes to the moon will be a little bit older when he returns.
I guess speed is a factor- if something does happen to go faster than the speed of light what will happen?..

I read a cool article or something about time travel once where they think they could build a time machine but the problem would be that in the future the farthest people could go back would be from when the time machine was turned on. So if you turned on their spiffy time machine now, then 100 years in the future, people could only go back in time 100 years.

That sounds more plausible to me than just poofing back in time with dinosaurs. Kinda like Tivo'ing your life.

But I dont really see how time travel could be possible at all...it would be freakishly awesome and cool and I would love to go back and time and see dinosaurs and Anne Boleyn or actual pirates or vikings (from an observing distance) but I doubt it can ever happen. And Id be too chicken to try.



/cough yeah there is, in the new movie and in Enterprise..lots and lots of time travel..

haven't seen the new movie yet, but from what i heard your right. and i think he meant the shows worth watching. enterprise was more void of entertainment than porn with plot. coincidentally though it did star the guy who starred in Quantum Leap. /headexplode

I always believed in multiple parallel universes. For every thing that you do there is a universe that you exist in where you do the opposite.
how does the saying go.. The road not taken i think.
In that parallel universe you took that other road.
When you experience deja-vu I also think that somehow two or more worlds somehow collide ( i know if they are parallel they never meet but parallel in a sense). Which is why in deja-vu you feel like you have done or been somewhere before...
thas my 2cents lol

All we need to do is find a Maw irl.

Project Looking Glass!

As time is merely a concept from man's perception of the way the universe changes, so too can time travel only be made possible through an observation. An example of this is seeing a supernova. Say a star approximately 100 lightyears from Earth blew up into a supernova 100 years ago. Then, today as you look up into the sky and see the bright light, you are watching the event that happened a century ago.

This may not be the wonderful time travel of which everyone fantasizes, but consider two impossible but interesting scenarios: 1) You can move faster than the speed of light. 2) You have a "telescope" that lets you view as far as you would like. If you were around the supernova moments after it blew, then moved faster then the speed of light to Earth, turned, and looked back, you would see the star intact before the explosion you had just watched even happened. A.K.A. Time travel.

When it comes to the idea of time travel where a person can actually interact with events from the past or future... I doubt it's possible.

one theory is if you manage to get to the right alternate universe it could be one where stuff has progressed slower.

in other words its still 2009 but same events happening that happened in the past in the present of that world.

i think that is maybe possible, but really going back in time i think cant be done.

WAT!? Of course Time Travel is real. There are now 2 classes of humans, ones who inhabit the Earth and cultivate some food and ALMOST live worry-free, called Eloi; and then you have the rulers from down below(underground, not hell) called the Morlocks, who are beastly and get their munch on eating the Eloi.

Haven't you heard of George Orwell's Time Machine, movie as well(not the newer remake mind you, but the older one from the 1960s). Based on actual events it is. >_> And then for all the ladies you also have the example of Kate and Leopold, just stating that is has Hugh Jackman should be enough for you to believe, maybe?

Didn't they go back in time in Star Trek IV?

This is not an example of time travel. Just a case of perception. Similar to a mirage. The star does not actually exist anymore, but it appears to because of how far it is from us. You seeing the star intact after the explosion is no more time travel than looking at a picture album.



This is really the question at hand. Math is probably the easiest way to explain it.

Man has defined dimensions to how we perceive things. Everyone is familiar with the second and third dimension. Some are familiar with the fourth, but I'll explain briefly. You could say we exist in the third dimension, but we can view things in the second. (example: drawing a square on a piece of paper) To be in the fourth dimension would be similar except that you would be able to view things in the third dimension like we currently view things in the second. These are what we call Spacial Dimensions. They can be represented in terms of a Cartesian coordinate system (aka, graphs).

We define time as a temporal dimension. The temporal dimension (there is only one) measures physical change. Not how it is perceived. So time is not a graph that we can represent like 2nd, 3rd, and 4th spacial dimensions, but more of a line, stretching infinitally in both directions and an object moves forward along that graph from left (past) to right (future) as it progresses in existence.

The idea of time travel would be to take that object at any instance (its present) and move it forward or in reverse along the line of time. Even if we were able to control that timeline, it would not affect events along it. If you were looking at the object on the line and reached in and dragged it back in the past. You wouldn't be taking an instance of it in the present, you'd be rewinding where it was previously (like a VHS).... For example, say the object was a box holding an integer. This box began at 1 and as it progresses it replaces it's current number with the number it is at. So we are now at 5 and it holds 5. To move backwards by 1 space, we'd no longer hold 5, we'd be at 4. And to move forward, well, we'd progress and pick up numbers along the way as we would normally.

Not sure if that explained it well. It's hard to describe in just text. But while Einstein believed traveling at the speed of light would in fact move you forward in time, I believe it to be more of a mirage effect than a time transport.

LOL, soon as i started reading i recognized the Time Machine.

I'd like to travel back to the 60s. All that free love and drugs, I would eat/dope up/***/rinse/repeat, of course it will all be so I'd die before making it out. I've seen the baby boomers, they look absolutely horrible.

What would i like to go back and see...
Things like The Colleseum, real gladiator fights.
Watch the egyptians build pyramids.
The vast Armadas at sea would be an awesome sight.
William Wallace crushing the English.
and Dinosaur sight seeing a must!
Im sure the list goes on.

Even witnessing the events of Jesus Christ would be awesome. See how accurate the bible is....
Anyways, just an event to be cool to see

I know this might sound dumb, I'm still in high school and I hate science lol. But, to travel backwards wouldn't everything in the past have to registered in some kind of 'time book' I guess you would call it? I don't see how something already done could be undone.