Is Time Travel possible?

eyeroad yearowl one

Take me to the future Patsy quick

dd972

Greetings from 2062

-FF are in power
-Our titans of finance and enterprise are household names and self rewarded beyond their dreams
-One bedroom apartments in Dublin are €3m
-30 page property supplements in the Indo every Friday
-All the young wans are out snorting coke and maxing out their biometric credit cards (which are micro chip implants these days)

we've never had it so good, what could possibly go wrong...

3ndahalfof6

dd972 wrote: »

Greetings from 2062

-FF are in power
-Our titans of finance and enterprise are household names and self rewarded beyond their dreams
-One bedroom apartments in Dublin are €3m
-30 page property supplements in the Indo every Friday
-All the young wans are out snorting coke and maxing out their biometric credit cards (which are micro chip implants these days)

we've never had it so good, what could possibly go wrong...

You mean 2014.

TimeToShine

Michio Kaku likes to talk a bit of crap to appeal to the masses. There's a reason his funding isn't going towards studying "time travel". It's because, based on our current understanding of physics, backwards time travel is 100% implausible, improbable and downright impossible.

But of course, if famous scientist guy says it's possible, it gets people interested in physics so it's a win/win.

These videos give a nice overview of what we're dealing with dimension wise when we say "time travel":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkxieS-6WuA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySBaYMESb8o

Dynamo Roller1

Wasn't there an experiment using a signal sent at a specific time in a controlled environment and it was set up to receive such signal aswell as before the sending signal was sent, apparently a signal was received BEFORE the original signal was sent (nano seconds) but this only happened when they sent a signal after sending a signal that had been received.

Killer Wench

What would be the point in time travel if you couldn't prevent tragic events?

im invisible

Killer Wench wrote: »

What would be the point in time travel if you couldn't prevent tragic events?

disaster tourism, want to what it was like on the Titanic as it was sinking? What Dresden looked like as it was being bombed the **** out of it? The Great Fire of London, the sacking of Rome, who really shot Kennedy, what was Jesus really like...
Theres money to be made in this

B.A._Baracus

im invisible wrote: »

disaster tourism, want to what it was like on the Titanic as it was sinking? What Dresden looked like as it was being bombed the **** out of it? The Great Fire of London, the sacking of Rome, who really shot Kennedy, what was Jesus really like...
Theres money to be made in this

Or people could watch this movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104362/ It stars Jeff Daniels and the girl from Jurassic Park


(Yes, its about that Im Invisible said :P)

vektarman

Malibu Sunshine wrote: »

Ah. Typo Nit-pickers.

It must be 1998 on the internet again

Typo Nit-pickers? Hmm, maybe.
Wonderful irony? Definitely.

Chancer3001

the REAL question is, does time itself even exist?

Cheerful Spring

Theoretically its possible. You will require a suitable mode of advanced transport to get you from one place to the other!

Earth scientists believe nothing can go faster than the speed of light ( but obviously this may change in the future if there is a discovery of new physics ?) but currently the law of physics states nothing goes faster than the speed of light.

If humans traveled by the speed of light ( getting to places like Mars would be very quick and fast) Time will no longer be constant like it would be on Earth though.

You might not age or feel the effects of time passing. Months passing by on Earth would feel like minutes and hours to you. Its a complicated theory really.

PhotogTom

I sort of like the tourism aspect. It seems to me that if we had powerful enough telescopes and microphones, it would be a "simple" matter to head far enough away and look back at the correct point in space and time to see ancient Rome, Pyramids being built, etc. In other words, we would need to be 2000 or so light years away from Earth and then look back.
Oh, we would also need to develop Faster than Light travel or we wouldn't be able to travel far enough and fast enough to do any good.
Not sure its time travel exactly, but I'd love to read a good novel with that as its premise.

mathie

PhotogTom wrote: »

I sort of like the tourism aspect. It seems to me that if we had powerful enough telescopes and microphones, it would be a "simple" matter to head far enough away and look back at the correct point in space and time to see ancient Rome, Pyramids being built, etc. In other words, we would need to be 2000 or so light years away from Earth and then look back.
Oh, we would also need to develop Faster than Light travel or we wouldn't be able to travel far enough and fast enough to do any good.
Not sure its time travel exactly, but I'd love to read a good novel with that as its premise.

Covered pretty well in this book
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Island-MMMMMMF-Erotica-Adventures-ebook/dp/B006CRHDSW/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1356712097&sr=1-5

PhotogTom

Not exactly what I had in mind!

Malibu Sunshine

Killer Wench wrote: »

What would be the point in time travel if you couldn't prevent tragic events?

The knock on effect of changing those events could be a bad thing. Havent you seen Back To The Future 2?

Malibu Sunshine

Chancer3001 wrote: »

the REAL question is, does time itself even exist?

Our bosses, girlfriends/boyfriends, wives/husbands say "yes"

ToddyDoody

Time Travel is of course possible. I stepped inside an Irish train station and I swear to you it was the 70s again