to us as a race will it therefore become infinite ? ....
2006-07-28 11:01:11 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I think most of you missed the point there was a big IF at the beginning of the question. most of what we know about science is less than a 500 years old. do you guys really think the world was flat before it was discovered it was round. according to Einstein we can travel into the future. you just need to find a way to travel really really fast... or just cross the international date line wow
we can go from one day to the next and back again with today's technology. time is relative to the observer. now actually going into the past an changing past events that might be a little harder.
but in the future if you could find the right wormhole or create a device that could create wormholes you could travel back perhaps. look up in the sky...are yo sure your looking at stars, its only the light the stars were giving off millions of years ago. so in a since when you see a star light you are looking into the past those stars might not even be around anymore, wise up just because our simple minds can't comprehend time travel yet its still something to consider could be possible.
2006-07-28 11:34:59 · answer #1 · answered by springheeledjack 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Springheeled said much of what I would have answered so I'll stick to differing points.
We all travel in time at a more or less uniform rate, moment by moment into the future. Can we change that speed or direction?
IF time travel becomes viable it COULD be the case that travel into the past is possible only as far back as the initial point of viability. In other words time travel cannot be undertaken until AFTER it becomes viable. For instance: someone invents a time machine (let's call it that for convenience) and lots of people start coming through it from the future - because it is finally possible. Capacity would be limited to those that came through at that point and certainly not infinite - in fact the inventor might find it difficult to get the space to use it to travel into the future (that being the only direction open to him at the point of invention).
So the absence of time travellers at present does not of itself prove anything about the possibility of time travel. The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
So, to conclude, and to attempt to answer the question, IF time travel becomes viable I do not consider that it would be infinite - it would be confined within the boundaries of physical space.
Unless of course the method employed did not involve the physical!? Which prompts me to pose another question: How much space does awareness occupy?
2006-07-29 01:49:39 · answer #2 · answered by jayelthefirst 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Life as we know it is an coordination among physical realities as a projection os some supper physical divine concept. A little change in this coordination can be totally ununderstandable for us intellectualy because our knowledge is not objective its is deduced from the study of our physical reality. We avoid to call the knowledge of the unknown a knowledge, not even a field of inquiry.
If we are able to excell the time dimention of our physical world then the sapce and matter will not be the same for us. We might become infinite in time, or we might anihilate unable to assume any other form. If we live we live in time we have.
2006-07-29 00:56:33 · answer #3 · answered by Shahid 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No we cannot become infinite. Because if we travel back in time, it does not necessary mean that the dinosaurs will come back to life again. Time travel is visionary and not physical.
2006-07-29 00:15:20 · answer #4 · answered by Satcha 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time Travel? I hope not. Can you imagine Stelios and Richard Branson fighting over the short haul jaunts to the Roaring Twenties and the Naughty Nineties?
2006-07-28 11:24:17 · answer #5 · answered by zoomjet 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chappy man. Time travel. It seems mysterious and wonderful. Maybe like you said, infinite possibilities could open. But for we, as humans, the world would no longer be pure. Be natural.
2006-07-28 11:09:10 · answer #6 · answered by carrington 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
(1) it won't, so this stays as a thought experiment
(2) you can only time travel to somewhere you can survive, and you'll need to invent some other impossible things if you want that to be anywhere other than earth.
(3) infinite what?
2006-07-28 11:05:55 · answer #7 · answered by wild_eep 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's impossible....cuz how can go back in time with out being existed. And if it were to become possible, there wud be chaos. people will wanna change the past...therefore our present or future will be affected. it's some kinda paradox
2006-07-28 19:09:50 · answer #8 · answered by knightamar13 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time travel is not possible. Why? I don't see any time travelers when I go outside.
2006-07-28 11:04:37 · answer #9 · answered by cancerman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, because one would need to travel through black holes and the time/space continuum. It just isn't feasible or realistic.
2006-07-28 11:23:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋