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Is time travel possible?

I was reading an article about time travel and how it might really be possible.

http://www.physics.org/article-questions.asp?id=131

In theory, I think it's probable, but is it possible or even feasible that we could travel backward or forward through time?

I don't think our current technology has progressed to the point where we could actually make this dream a reality.

I'm interested in any theories which might support this idea.

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idealmike
You're interested in hearing theories. But are you interested in discussing those theories further? Is time travel possible?

I don't believe time travel is possible to man. No matter how much our technology improves. What's happened in the past is in the past and is gone forever. And the future hasn't happened, until it happens. So we can't travel forward in time because that time hasn't happened yet. How can you travel to somewhere that doesn't exist?

We might one day be able to travel at the speed of light, or even travel on light. But you can't go back in time, because that time is gone forever. And you can't go forward in time either because that hasn't happened, until it's happened (the present).

So even if we could travel at the speed of light, or faster, we wouldn't be going backwards or forwards in time. We'd just be traveling at the speed of light. No matter what speed you travel at, you're only going to be traveling at that speed.

So time travel, no. But traveling at the speed of light, much more feasible. But time traveling itself, whether to the past or the future, just isn't logical.



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hitmeasap
Simply put, No. I don't believe in time travels and I don't believe we will ever be able to travel in time. I would however, LOVE it, if we could.

Have you seen the movie "Click" with Adam Sandler? He fast forwards a lot, he's entire life basically and the things that happens is actually quite interesting. Well, at least I think so. He missed out on literally hundreds of things because of it, even though he only used the fast forward to skip all the boring nag and whatever. He missed a load of things during the years, and suddenly, he became an old man.

Honestly speaking, I believe something like that WOULD happen, IF you could travel in time, or if you could fast forward all the "boring" things in life. And if you think about it.. A life like that wouldn't be worth living. I know I wouldn't want to live liked that, and sure, it would be nice to skip all the nag and troubles but it wouldn't be worth it in the end.


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Everett
I don't think I would time travel.. for numerous reasons, and some you listed above:
  1. You could mess up the time continuum.
  2. You can mess up your entire life, or others lives because of your actions
  3. A domino effect would occur for your actions, or timelines would be split into trillions upon trillions of timelines and possible futures
  4. Miss out on events in your actual time frame or time line
  5. Lose track of time
  6. Get lost in time
  7. Can no go back to the moment you left, possibly
  8. What happens if you die in the future? What would happen to the present, or past you?

So many things when it comes to time travel.



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idealmike
The thing is with time travel. It's a paradox. Let me explain. If you could travel to the future, that would have to mean that the future has already happened else you wouldn't be able to travel there. And if it has, then there is no limit to how much forward in time the future has/had already happened. But let's say that the future already has happened. Why hasn't someone created a time machine that could travel back in time, to tell us that in the future, someone would create a time machine? This is the paradox and reason why if time travel was ever possible then at some point in the future, they would have been able to build a time machine that came back in time to tell us that in the future they had built a time machine. However, it could very well be that that has happened, or will happen in the future, it's just that we're living during a period that they didn't think it was worth coming back to to tell us. But that's not very likely. So therefore, because that hasn't happened, that either means one of two things or two things together. One is that the future hasn't happened yet and two is that they haven't been able to build a time machine to come back and tell us about it. So therefore, time travel is either not or never will be possible. Or the future hasn't happened yet. And the past is gone. So even if we did build a time machine, we simply wouldn't be able to use it. Hence the paradox.



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Everett
Well, im not going to say it is, or isn't. However, long ago our technology today would be mind boggling to those say of the 1700s. Our technology would be too much for them to handle. Now, as technology progresses, so does our drive for theories, even if they appear to be outlandish such as time travel.

If you can replicate the effects of a blackhole, or wormhole, and harness this energy into a technology then time travel would be possible. It would eventually swallow up time around the technology and be a portal of sorts before closing in on itself to due to power of the technology. I'm unaware of how one would navigate to certain time periods, this may still be up for discussion.

I think if you were to navigate to certain time periods, you wouldn't be able to select with period it was. You may have to go where the portal takes you, and you won't be able to come back. So why time travel anyway? How can you get back?!



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idealmike
Well I must digress! Wormhole's are only theories. We don't actually know that they exist. As for a black hole, we know they do exist because we see them. Well we can't actually see them. But we can see anything around them that's getting sucked into it. Where the matter that gets sucked into it goes nobody knows. Some people suggest that it's another dimension where the laws of nature are different or even simply another space in space. Some people suggest that it's all compressed into an infinitely small space. Much like how they think the whole universe used to be before the big bang. Which again, is only a theory. They think that the universe is constantly expanding and then compressing again over and over again but played out over billions of years in a constant loop. But it doesn't answer the question of where did matter come from. How can everything that is, come from nothing? It doesn't matter how many times you add 0 to 0. The result will always be 0. But somehow, some way, 0+0 has equaled 1 somewhere along the line. Once we understand that a bit better. I think we'll start to unlock the secrets of the universe. But we're still trying to find out what dark matter is and if gravitational waves exist.

I just can't see how time travel would be possible because what's happened has happened and there is no way to return back to what has past (hence why they call it the past). And the future hasn't happened yet either. We are living in the present and the future hasn't happened so how can you travel to somewhere that doesn't exist? Is time travel possible?



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Everett
What about multiple realities existing at the same time, it doesn't matter if it is past, present, or future.



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idealmike
You mean the multiverse theory? AKA "parallel universes", "other universes" or "alternate universes". The theory that there is an infinite amount of realities or universes and in each one some tiny little detail is different. Like in one world, we have 6 fingers per hand and in another 7 and in another 8 and in another 9 fingers and so in an infinite amount of times. Or perhaps in one world someone does something different like leave for work 5 minutes earlier than usual or orders the fish instead of pasta for dinner instead that kind of thing?

I don't buy into that hypotheses do you? The universe is universal and its infinite in size. That's why there's one universe. One reality. But the multiverse hypotheses says perhaps there's 2 universes and 2 realities that can exist side by side. But that's just some Dr Who stuff! How can 2 universes that are both infinite in size exist side by side since they're both infinite in size and would need to take up each others space in time. But if that was the case why is there only one of us moving around in this space at any one time?

I mean where does it end? Why just 2 universes? Why not 3 universes or 4 or 5 or an infinite amount of different universes? Is reality just based on the vacuum of space? If you remove space itself, do you remove reality and time too?

If the hypotheses theory was true, there would need to be an infinite amount of matter created as well to make the big giant dust and gas clouds that eventually clumped together to form the stars and planets we live on and and black holes and all manner of intergalactic cosmical spectacles that are incredible to behold that we see today. Although, what we see in the sky now, is what happened hundreds of millions of light years ago not what it actually looks like now. Because it's taken so many millions of light years for their light to get here. So when you look up at the sky at night and see the stars, you're not seeing them as they are now, you're seeing them as they were hundreds of millions of lightyears ago.

Kind of like a postcard from the past. Is time travel possible?



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EliteWriter
We always hear that technology is advancing and making leaps, but when it comes to time travel I guess it will only remain a dream because I cannot imagine it to be possible and realistic to come up with something which could make it a reality. If that was the case I would be one of the first to try it out most probably as it has always been my dream to relive my past, especially my childhood. But I believe the past is the past, and we cannot turn back time to go through it again, ever!



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Lynne
No, I don't believe time travel is possible. I do believe since having kids time has sped up and everything is just moving oh so much faster now!



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MusicMoguls
A couple thoughts come to mind when discussing time travel. Back to the future would have to be first, but time travel in reality would be another concept to think about. i don't believe time travel is possible in our lifetime to be honest. theres just too much theories not enough facts on the subject. too many scientist with too many predictions but humans haven't reached that technology yet. theres just too many factors that fall in too play i also believe the lack in knowledge we have also takes part in the simple fact that we don't know enough.



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MasterA
There is no evidence to show that you can travel back in time; yet there is no evidence to show that you can’t. Therefore, our general assumption is that we cannot do it. There is a possibility that this can happen. There are many things in this universe that we don’t know about and you can never be certain that it doesn’t exist. For example, 5000 years ago, no one would of thought about computers, yet here we are. I am not saying that you can time travel and I personally don’t know but I think anything is possible in this universe that we only know very little about.



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Corzhens
I have read an article some years ago which was written by Isaac Asimov who is a popular science fiction writer. But I think he is a scientist in real life, am not just sure in what discipline. Anyway, his theory on time travel is not hard to understand because he had applied his knowledge on physics. That means time travel is possible but only on a small scale like a speck of dust. He had cited some experiments with that. I really don’t know what to believe but maybe, just maybe, time travel can be a reality in small scale only. But that would be great already. Can you imagine sending a short note to your father when he was still alive?



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Caguioa747
I think its possible to speed up/slow down time so that you can travel into the future at a different rate than others. But its impossible to reverse the direction of time, so traveling to the past is impossible.



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