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Travel Back In Time?
Ever since H G Wells' 'Time Machine', time travel has been the topic of science fiction and has fascinated human minds - young and old alike. However, modern say research in physics shows that this actually is not possible. Particularly after the revolution of the theory of relativity, it is known that space and time are intertwined in a complicated manner such that any body that has mass causes the space-time around it to curve so that it accommodates that body with mass. In addition, although, you can move forward and back in any of the three spatial directions, you can only move forward in time.
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I'm no scientist either but I believe you are correct. In astronomy class I remember hearing about how when light from the sun lets say, travels past a planet, at the point when its curving around a planet it is accelerated, meaning that the light is traveling faster than it does regularly during any other time. In short, light travels at the same speed all the time expect when passing around an object. This somehow contradicts the idea that light is some sort of constant, which would also contradict the idea that nothing can go faster than "the speed of light" because actually light itself can go faster than a constant 186,000 mi/sec or what we call "the speed of light". I could be completely wrong but i thought i learned something to that effect a few semesters ago. In any case, I think we humans are such a young inhibitor that there is much we don't know, and much we are wrong about.
I think we would have something to show (like an object that was not invented at that time) if where able to go back in time. Like rigth now we could bring with us batteries or something. If the human body can "travel" back in time and stil be in one piece, than i bet almost everything can.
I think if you vibrated at the speed om light you would die, your organs would simply be destroyed.. You know, if youre driving a car on a bumpy road long enough some of your organs can separate themselves from your body.. Now thats an interessting fact :D It's nobody living in the future. We live in 2010, and year 2050 have not occured yet. We are the "future". Nobody can go back in time and show/tell us anything, because there is nobody there to do it
The second part is, that God him self is time... and only he can travel to the past, present or future... and what good will it do humanity if we were to do such a thing, right? anyone that came to us today claming they're from the future we would treat them like crazies!! Lol... I mean what good could we possibly do in the past? Nothing...it already happend, o and I don't think we would be going to an specific time in our lives... I believe there are multiple, infinite dimensions! So for one you wouldn't look the same...two, you would forgot everything, emotions, feeling you've live... and three, you would only have concience of human entity...in other words, it would be like being born all over again... maybe we have already traveled, its just the people who made the trip didn't make it all the way... mentaly or possibly even fully physical...
Given all the theories and good imaginary ideas, its interesting to discuss.... but personality I don't think GOd him self would ever allow it.... that only a characteristic that only the Almighty posses!!!
Saying this means that there must be a theory of the "first ever" time line. This will be the only time line that cannot be changed - unless it is moved forward in time.
So the only way that we will be able to go back in time is for someone to be able to save every action in the universe onto some sort of harddrive which can then be accessed by a time machine of some sort. - So the real question should be how are we going to record and save our time line before its too late?
Actually, one could say that time does not exist. Time is only the thought of what we cannot comprehend. We as the human race have given such a simple meaning and explanation to the word we call "time" that most cannot accept the fact that it does not exist. A simple example is that our definition of time is only constant to use because of the gravity vortex that controls each planet. There are so many variables that make up "time" that it is nearly impossible to explain exactly what or how to control it. Time travel is a very interesting subject, but until we can conceive how time itself works we cannot even begin to understand how to manipulate it.
Reverse creation of change? Possible?
so, ur plane theory is just as good as me setting my watch forward and claiming that i have travelled in time.
Sure, not to the extent you guys are talking like 100 years but perhaps in some way using the plane/ time zone concept it could be achieved. I have no idea, but I reckon it could be.
anyone considered a polycosmic theory?
not gona explain it, i feel that anyone who has a valid comment will understand what it is.
what is time? it is how long we have to wait to percieve something with our senses. it describes when we pick up something with any of our senses.
so. to simplify il use light as eg.
light travels to u in x seconds, u percieve it. bam, its day. awsm. wp.
now u move towards it and u percieve it, sure, u reach in a faster time than x. obviously, its like running towards an aporaching ball.
but, just because u reached the ball quicker than u would have when not running (going at the speed of light aplicable to time travel) does not meen u have traveld back in time.
i therefore believe that time travel is imposible simply because things happen and then they are over and done with, u cannot go back in time by traveling faster than light, because light travels in only 1 direction.
I would like to give pro time travelers the fact that, if my statement is correct (and i realy think it is, coz logicaly it is extremly sensible.) that it implies that u can achieve time traveling, by actualy moving forward in time, this up the stream of light, to go back. which is still quite interesting in itself. I doubt that this is plausable tho, becase of the fact that light disperses.
If time is something bound up with the dimensions, surely there's some way to manipulate it, at least in theory? In fact, popular concensus would seem to suggest that time is a dimensional thing in itself - the fourth dimension.
Just some more thoughts.
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The idea of traveling to a parallel universe would be easier to understand because then, the time-space continuum would not be altered. And every universe would have it's own continuum.
Best!