Is Time Travel Possible?

[lnrw]

Since we cannot accurately predict the future, we don't know of all the things that are out there waiting to be discovered. At one time, people predicted that we would need many more millions horses to accomodate the growing population. That one's been shot to hell.

Who knows what the future may hold, if we don't destroy ourselves. Maybe time travel would save us.

[The Dude]

I've always been fascinated with the concept of time travel. If you do it, does it always happen that way and you cannot change anything it's just you always did that? And if it's that, there's a paradox that can be at play.

Or do you create alternate timelines?


I've read some scientists who believe it's theoretically possible, but I haven't been sold yet though I want to be.


Anyway, if you want to watch a time traveling movie, watch Primer and prepare to be f**k.

[lil bit]

I don't see how it's possible, as time isn't an entity.

[Mr.Bill]

The concept used in the movie 'Somewhere in Time' is interesting. The main character, Christopher Reeves, basically hypnotizes himself to travel back in time.

Anyway IF Einstein was right, that space and time appear to be the same thing, and if we are traveling close to the speed of light, time goes slower.. Why can't it be possible?

If it is possible to SLOW time..Maybe we can further control it and travel through it?

[Spider]

Time goes slower relatively. As in, from an observer who is moving a relatively lower speed. Nobody is controlling it, its just the mechanics of how reality works. From the perspective of the traveller, time is moving normally. I mean...you can take advantage of that effect and call it "time travel", I suppose, since you could be gone 10 years and come back to see everything a thousand years later.

You can't travel through time because time is not a distance between two points, but a duration between two events.

You know how it doesn't make sense to convert a measure of volume directly to a measure of surface, since one is 3 dimensional, and one is 2 dimensional? Same goes for converting between distance and duration. One is a 3 dimensional concept, the other is 4 dimensional. Doesn't translate. There's nothing 3 dimensional we can do to change the 4rth dimension.

The past and future aren't even real. They're imaginary. All that actually exists is right now. Right now is real. 5 minutes ago isn't. You can't take the real and make it coincide with the unreal...because nothing unreal exists. You can't take existence and back to nonexistence...because then existence wouldn't exist. You can't take 2 back to zero and still have 2. It would be zero. See what I mean?

[NAB]

[exploited]

Primer was good, if I'm thinking of the right movie. That was about some guys building a time machine in their garage, and then abusing the shit out of it and each other, right?

[NAB]

[exploited]

[Mr.Bill]