2006-08-06 06:57:28 · 24 answers · asked by disco5z 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The thing that fascinates me about time travel is the implication that the past still exists, and that the future is happening alongside the present.
I mean, think about it. If the past already happened then it is gone. No way to travel to something that doesn't exist anymore. And if the future has yet to occur then you have the same problem.
So time travel suggests a sort of infinite now that we all travel through, or perceive ourselves traveling through. Its a pretty cool idea. I kind of like it, it makes sense to me. So yeah, on faith and if I had to guess, I'd say time travel is possible.
But there is no scientific evidence for it. In fact, various facets of Einstein's Theory of Relativity seem to conspire against it.
But I think that perhaps time is a facet of the universe that we simply do not understand well. Again, just a hunch. I just thinks like that.
- Cai
2006-08-06 09:20:20 · answer #1 · answered by cailano 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe not time travel as you are thinking, but how about this thought. Travel from say the UK to the US. Some sort of transport ie rocket. That would go straight up out of the earths orbit. Stay there a calculated time and come straight back down and land in the States. Due to the Earths rotation.? Am I mad?
2006-08-06 08:28:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that backward time travel is possible. However, the mechanics of a time machine would probably mean it would be impossible to travel to a time prior to the time machine being first activated. Hence, if a time machine was invented in 2083, then someone from the year 2100 would be able to travel as far back as 2083 - and no further. This is why we haven't been visited from the future - unless UFOs are really time travellers.
2006-08-06 10:04:47 · answer #3 · answered by nemesis 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Einstein's Relativity Theory includes the option that time (T) is a variable that can become negative under certain conditions.
The scientific community is so rabid on this subject, however, that all Einstein would publically suggest was that some sort of viewing through time might be possible rather than physical time travel itself.
Scientists claim that they are calm and logical and stick scrupulously to 'Scientific Method'. In fact they are as volatile, dilatory and abusive as any other group of human beings.
2006-08-06 09:24:30 · answer #4 · answered by narkypoon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We already do time travelling.
What is Time travelling?
It is a travel from A+B in a certain time.
Lets explain that.
The distance from A to B is 1000m.
Now you go by feet and measure the time with a stop watch.
Lets say it will take you 10 minutes by feet.
Now you take a Bike and it will take you only 2 minutes.
That means you save 8 minutes with the bike.
8 minutes you can do something else in destination b what you couldn't if you go by feet.
That is Time travelling.
2006-08-08 04:05:28 · answer #5 · answered by Chacko 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time travel is indeed possible, theoretically at least. However, Einstein postulated that it was impossible to travel to the future (hah, Marty McFly!) due to it not happening yet.
And then there's the 'grandfather paradox'... if you go back in time and accidentally (who'd do it willingly?!) kill your grandparent, you would cease to exist and then you wouldn't have gone back in time to kill him/her. But, this can be solved by alternate timelines. Fry in Futurama accidentally had his grandfather killed back in 1947 and he unwittingly did the wild thing with his grandmother, thus becoming his own grandfather... while that is just a cartoon, it is possible, theoretically of course.
2006-08-06 12:12:50 · answer #6 · answered by hasina_ghani 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what is time travel - is it the ability to move forward in time so that u arrive before everyone else? Then i do it every day in my car. I get to the shops before those who walk, and therefore have travelled in time!
2006-08-06 11:53:20 · answer #7 · answered by Allasse 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you've proved time travel is possible through your simultaneous use of the past, future and present tenses.
2006-08-06 09:49:26 · answer #8 · answered by yodellingdolphinofkirkwall 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't know how to put this without offending some people, but i think there has already been a time machine of sorts in the form of slave ships, it took people from straw huts in faraway places to a more modern place, and i suppose some of them must have been astounded at the then modern things. therefor in one way they were brought forward in (they're) time.
2006-08-06 07:21:04 · answer #9 · answered by fool4lovin. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At this moment time travel is science fiction.
Th
2006-08-06 08:09:47 · answer #10 · answered by Thermo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋