2006-09-25 09:48:34 · 17 answers · asked by steve 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
THE TIME TRAVEL TALE OF JOHN TITOR
Although there is debate over the exact date it started, on November 02, 2000, a person calling themselves Timetravel_0, and later John Titor, started posting on a public forum that he was a time traveler from the year 2036.
One of the first things he did was post pictures of his time machine and its operations manual. As the weeks went by, more and more people began questioning him about why he was here, the physics of time travel and his thoughts about our time. He also posted on other forums including the now non-existent Art Bell site. In his posts John Titor entertained, angered, frightened and even belittled those who engaged him in conversation.
On March 21, 2001, John Titor told us he would be leaving our and returning to 2036. After that, he was never heard from again. Speculation and investigation about who John Titor was and why he was online continues to this day.
Although it may be easy to dismiss all this as science fiction, most people who read his posts agree that there is something very haunting about John Titor and what he said. In addition, and open to more debate, he also made a series of predictions and comments that eerily seem to be coming true.
Unfortunately, I never spoke directly to John Titor but there are many out there who have and continue to wonder about their experience. As you get deeper and deeper into the story, you will find his posts, links to other sites about him, downloads and speculative information attributed to him after he left. I have taken the posts and organized them by date and subject. My editorial work is copyrighted but the unedited posts and the people who experienced it are in the public domain can be found on other sites listed inside.
As you read, please try to keep two things in mind:
1. John appeared to answer nearly every question that was asked of him over the 4-month period he was online. Because of that, many people neglected to read the previous posts and asked similar or exact questions he had already answered. It may offer a glimpse of what a time traveler goes through when having the same conversation again and again.
2. These posts were written before 911, the Discovery accident and the second gulf war. Many people believe John may have known of these events and dropped clues without actually referring to them. It's also widely agreed that he made several predictions about future physics discoveries that have materialized as he stated.
I have included a guest book where you may leave your comments. I will endeavor to respond to any questions you have based on my work.
I hope you enjoy your journey with John Titor.
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http://johntitor.com/
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Professor Predicts Human Time Travel This Century
2006-09-26 11:30:22 · answer #1 · answered by r0bErT4u 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's hard to say, because it really depends on uproven theories. If certain concepts of the nature of the universe are correct, then yes. But if other concepts are correct, then no. Some would analytically say that the answer is no, because if time travelers ever exist in the future, they would come back to our time to visit. But I don't really think that's valid, because future time travelers would need to be very careful not to cause paradoxes. It's entirely possible that every timeline in which time travelers have caused paradoxes has actually been deleted from spacetime, and our universe will never have time travel by the anthropic principal.
2006-09-25 09:54:02 · answer #2 · answered by DavidK93 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Forward time travel is theoretically possible, if you can travel fast enough. But I doubt we will be able to generate enough energy to make this a reality.
However, backward time travel is impossible, in my opinion. It opens the door for too many temporal paradoxes. The simplest is: you go back in time one day, and smash your time machine. Thus you never go back in time, then you time machine isn't smashed, so you can go back in time, so it smashed, so...
(Or consider the more gruesome, you kill your younger self, or your parents.)
Star Trek is full of these. If you are a Simpsons fan, remember the time travel toaster from the Halloween special...
2006-09-25 09:53:47 · answer #3 · answered by Theodore R 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
there is not any logical or actual situation with vacationing into the destiny - all we opt to do is desirable some freezing technologies. There will be a technical and clinical challenge there, yet no paradox or actual impossibility exists. vacationing into the previous is a diverse remember, and that i trust that that's no longer plausible for precise the following causes: a million. it would invoke paradoxical situations 2. If it ever grew to change into plausible, we would were visited through others from the destiny... or we would have detected messages or something from the destiny. So... commute to the destiny is a one-way vacation. very such as life.
2016-10-16 02:15:35 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hopefully it will never be possible, it could mess everything thing good we have going for right now.
it might be possible; according to scientist particles that are traveling faster then the speed of light are actually traveling backwards in time.
2006-09-25 11:56:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes!
most of our sciences today (cloning, test tube babies, ect.) were first thought of and done in science fiction novels. Sometimes I think us scientists get our best ideas from those books.
Also Einstein proved thattime travel forward in the future is indeed possible at the speed of light. It would be going backwards which would pose a problem.
2006-09-25 09:52:00 · answer #6 · answered by allusional 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Of course not.
Future time doesn't even exist yet.
Past time only exists as light and even if you could travel fast enough to catch up with it, it would be so diffused you wouldn't be able to get much out of it.
2006-09-25 09:56:30 · answer #7 · answered by JLT 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If it does become possible, I will come back and post "YESSSSS!!!!!!!" as the first answer to this question.
P.S. Checking back, I see that I did NOT post "YESSSSS!!!!!!!" as the first answer, so it appears the answer is no (either that, or the guy with the time machine wouldn't give me a ride).
2006-09-25 10:41:15 · answer #8 · answered by Jack D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really, really doubt it. The concept itself seems imposible except in entertainment. Usually when we want something done and it's not possible it's usually because we know what we have to do to accomplish it, we just dont have to technology or skills.
2006-09-25 09:52:04 · answer #9 · answered by JLN2854 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I just got back from time traveling... where u been?
2006-09-25 09:56:40 · answer #10 · answered by Scott 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋