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2006-06-21 11:05:20 · 11 answers · asked by yaffet27 1 in Science & Mathematics Physics

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Sure, I had notebooks full but I dropped them in either 1452 whilst trying to escape the Inquisition or in 48,200 while trying out that new photonic star skimmer!

2006-06-21 11:15:25 · answer #1 · answered by Master Quark 3 · 0 1

Sure, all theoretical physicist plot ways to take over the universe every night. Just what form of research do you expect this to be? Let me explode your sci-fi fantasy. If you jumped into the future, say one minute, what would happen? Ok, with a absolute solar system velocity of ~300 km/s, the system would be 18,000 km further along from where you are. It's lonely out there in space. No oxygen either.

So, to do what you probably want, means traveling very fast. Lots of engineers are trying to figure out how to go faster every day. We are a long way from knocking on the door of even single digit light speed percentages. But the path to glory, so to speak, is the path of velocity. Baring some way to fold space. Which lots of physicists are working on every night, to try and conquer the universe!

2006-06-21 11:47:33 · answer #2 · answered by Karman V 3 · 0 0

Time travel is actually relatively easy (theoretically) if you want to go into the future. If you travel at the spead of light, time slows down for you. What might be a short time for you, would be generations for everyone not traveling at the speed of light. Of course there are complications such as actually reaching the speed of light and the fact that mass increases at the speed of light as well. But those obsticals are nothing compared to trying to go back in time. The trick about time is that no one really knows how time works. Is it linear, helical, etc? If time moves in a helical shape, you could theoretically go from the turn you are in to a neighboring turn.

2006-06-21 16:52:36 · answer #3 · answered by q2003 4 · 0 0

Worm holes is the (as I understand it) big hope today for traveling back in time.

And concerning the paradox which occurs when you shot you own parents in the past, before you where born, physicians today believe that every moment our world split itself creating many different paths, or dimensions, only differing little little from each other (the differences can become greater as time goes, the so called butterfly effect!). That speaks for that when you shot your parents, you will just go into another dimension (path) than the one you came from (in the future).

The dimension you came from is still there, but you now have chosen another one, where your parents are dead. And of course, you are not born in this dimension. Your mom is giving birth to you in another dimension, where the younger you are growing up, but then when you travels back in time and shot your parents, you certainly chose another way, another path, another dimension.

You can think of the whole thing as a path in the forest. When you travel back in time, you goes back on the path. If you then shot you parents, you can compare that with going forward again but this time taking another path. All the different paths is still there, you are just not walking at them.

2006-06-21 12:51:08 · answer #4 · answered by User1 2 · 0 0

There is much speculation, conjecture and theorizing about time travel but no research can be conducted since there are no means to test the hypothesis.

2006-06-21 14:27:37 · answer #5 · answered by wefields@swbell.net 3 · 0 0

most likely yea because the technonlogy 2day is expanding greater than ever

2006-06-21 11:32:30 · answer #6 · answered by Rosario A 1 · 0 0

its not possible..a funny proof..if u could go into ur past and kill ur grand father..you wont be here then..then you couldn't go in your past..and that event wont happen..a contradiction..

2006-06-21 11:11:22 · answer #7 · answered by Vivek 4 · 0 0

we haven't had any visitors from the future yet...

or have we?

2006-06-21 16:19:37 · answer #8 · answered by Nigelg 2 · 0 0

well there are theories. black holes, grandfather paradox, and others....

2006-06-21 13:28:18 · answer #9 · answered by cuckoo meister 3 · 0 0

No

2006-06-21 11:08:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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