Thoughts on time travel

[I Took the Red Pill]

Time travel has long been a staple of science fiction, but recent research in quantam physics deems it as plausible. There are many arguments on both sides. For the con sides, arguments arise such as the "grandfather" paradox, in which you go back in time and kil lyour grandfather, therefore ever preventing your birth, and the simple fact that time travel in itself is a paradox (an event in history both occured and didn't occur at the same time.) Advocates of time travel believe nature would balance the process by somehow preventing you from killing your grandfather, and see a lot of possibility in wormholes. It's a hard concept to grasp, but what are your thoughts on the subject?

[NeoCracker]

Scientist researching this should stop. Say that they do succeed in traveling through time. doing anything to change the time flow could completely screw everything up. Sure it could also make it better, but there is no possible way you can make an 100% calculation of what would happen. And with humans being as we are, anything would could make better will more than likely get completly screwed up. Look at video games, such examples are Final Fantasy X-2.

[DK]

You know that time travel will never exist because if it did people from the future would be coming back in time and becoming incredibly rich from betting.

[Omnislash07]

I dont think it is possible to go back in time. Some people think of time as a book and you can skip ahead to see what happens next in life or you can go back and see what happened earlier. I believe that life is like a blank book and after each page is written it is erased and a new page is started. Thus going into the past or future is impossible because it is no longer there and all we have is the present.

[Shoden]

No chance.

As velocity increases mass increases, you need lightspeed to travel through time and to reach lighspeed you'd need all the energy in the universe to move your incredibly heavy and smashes body, and I don't think that's possible.

[NeoCracker]

You know that time travel will never exist because if it did people from the future would be coming back in time and becoming incredibly rich from betting.

Actually that wouldn't work. Money is actually dated, so if you used the future money it wouldn't register because of that. Unless its a short time frame, in which case they would probably find a way to keep tabs on anyone.

[radyk05]

you forgot to mention that the theory also says that you may end in another universe. you may kill your grandfather in that universe and not get any reprecusions.

[Hawkeye]

You need the flux capacitor

Actually that wouldn't work. Money is actually dated, so if you used the future money it wouldn't register because of that. Unless its a short time frame, in which case they would probably find a way to keep tabs on anyone.

Haven't you seen back to the future 2?

[Dolentrean]

Ok acording to science you can not go back in time, but you can in a way move forward. Time is realative T=Ti/(gamma constant) if you travale at very high speeds, ie half the speed of light or higher, time moves slower REALATIVE to the earth. so if you move at .98 the speed of light for 5 years, 5 years will pass for you but closter to 40 (guess, im to lazy to do calulation) years will pass on earth.

Also if you travle at the speed of light (immposable) you will no longer age, and will be able to go to the furture, realise it is a one way trip, you cant come back.

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

No chance.

As velocity increases mass increases, you need lightspeed to travel through time and to reach lighspeed you'd need all the energy in the universe to move your incredibly heavy and smashes body, and I don't think that's possible.

If I remember correctly as an object approaches the speed of light it mass aproaches infinity.

[mooglebunni608]

has anyone heard of the time travel convention??suposedly there was only one, because if a time travelor wanted to go they'd simply hafta travel back in time to it....

[Meat Puppet]

on my hotmail the other day I got a message from a kind man who has come from the future and is trapped in time. what should I do?

eidt (edit: edit), and then there's this dude:

Reply to: stepon@yahoo.com
Date: 2003-08-27, 9:01AM

Hello-
This is not a joke.

I'm looking for 1-2 individuals to help me test my time machine.

We recently completed our first mission in the Time Travel Transport (TTT) and it worked flawlessly. I was left relatively unscathed. We know, once perfected, that this will change the world we live in and will literally "re-write history".

I would like to build a small team to help me. I will be doing the actual computer work, but you should have a decent knowledge of computers. A knowledge of different eras in history would be very helpful (clothing styles, regional dialects, etc.)

As a team member, you will accompany either myself or my assistant into the past or the future. As you can expect, you will have to pass a physical/mental examination, and although we believe the process to be very safe, we cannot guarantee your safety 100%.

Please forward all relevant information
-age
-sex
-weight/height
-a photo if you would like
_relevant experience (we realize this will probably be very little)
-and most importantly, why you should be picked.

Currently, compensation is very little (a monthly stipend). But, we envision a market for our product very soon and you will be compensated accordingly.

We ask that participants be in the New York City area, or be willing to relocate.

Please forward all correspondence to stepon@yahoo.com

Thank you

[Dolentrean]

on my hotmail the other day I got a message from a kind man who has come from the future and is trapped in time. what should I do?

Put him on a quantem excersize untill he can run at quantem speeds to get him back to his own time, duh!

[nik0tine]

Traveling through time is impossible. Manipulating the rate in which times flows, maybe, but actual time travel is not possible.

[Awesomeman]

No one can travel back in time or there would be some of them in our era.

on my hotmail the other day I got a message from a kind man who has come from the future and is trapped in time. what should I do?

eidt (edit: edit), and then there's this dude:

I'm hoping you didn't give this guy a reply. Who knows(I do) what he could be after.