SomethingBig
07-27-2005, 06:18 AM
I remember seeing this thread in a different forum many years ago and spawned a great debate. I'd like to see what EoFF can conjur.
The topic is not simply about time travel, but actually controlling time and its speed. I used to believe that time travel would some time become possible, but there are many problems with said idea.
Time does not exist - How could we hope to control something that we cannot detect with our senses? Time is something that was used to calculate the orbit of the sun(back then - now the earth). It isn't something we can manipulate or experiment upon.
If time travel were to become possible, we most definitely would have had some sort of visitor from the future by now. There could be government restrictions in the future, but that doesn't mean people couldn't create their own homemade time machines.
There are also problems with time travel. One of the biggest would have to be an event occuring in an endless loop. Ex: Person A goes back in time to assassinate Hitler on June 12, 4010, hypothetically keeping WWII and the Holocaust from happening. The future changes and no German holocaust occurs. This era rolls along and soon enough, it is June 12, 4010. Person A is now a carefree guy and since Hitler was killed, he has no reason to go back. But he was the reason Hitler did not come to power in the first place. Because Hitler is not assassinated once again in the past, Hitler comes to power; thus, creating an endless cycle.
So what are your thoughts on time travel?
The topic is not simply about time travel, but actually controlling time and its speed. I used to believe that time travel would some time become possible, but there are many problems with said idea.
Time does not exist - How could we hope to control something that we cannot detect with our senses? Time is something that was used to calculate the orbit of the sun(back then - now the earth). It isn't something we can manipulate or experiment upon.
If time travel were to become possible, we most definitely would have had some sort of visitor from the future by now. There could be government restrictions in the future, but that doesn't mean people couldn't create their own homemade time machines.
There are also problems with time travel. One of the biggest would have to be an event occuring in an endless loop. Ex: Person A goes back in time to assassinate Hitler on June 12, 4010, hypothetically keeping WWII and the Holocaust from happening. The future changes and no German holocaust occurs. This era rolls along and soon enough, it is June 12, 4010. Person A is now a carefree guy and since Hitler was killed, he has no reason to go back. But he was the reason Hitler did not come to power in the first place. Because Hitler is not assassinated once again in the past, Hitler comes to power; thus, creating an endless cycle.
So what are your thoughts on time travel?