If i was going to go five seconds into the past to stop myself from going to the past - then all of a sudden before i visit the past another me comes streaming forth out of nowhere and successfully stops me visiting the past - wouldn't that prove alternate dimensions?
That would mean i was successful in stopping myself visiting the past - but if i didn't ever visit the past who's the guy standing in front of me? It would have to be me from another timeline in which i was successful in halting my own progression through time and the me in the current dimension is an alternate reality in which my time travelling attempt failed.
It might be a little confusing - but time travel is actually possible and this shows that alternate dimensions probably exist. The only case in which this shouldn't be accepted is if "destiny" guides our every move and in turn makes it impossible for me to interact with myself - through a series of coincidences what render my time travelling attempts moot.
2006-10-16 03:58:42 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
It's an example you idiot - and yes time travel is possible.
2006-10-16 04:03:35 · update #1
Instead of taking the easy option and saying "it wouldn't work" explain why. Also try and explain the paradox away taking into account the possiblility that time travel "is" possible.
It's all to easy to say "the math doesn't add up" or whatever... just look at the example for what it is - please...
2006-10-16 04:47:18 · update #2
I also do not believe time travel is possible. If you went the speed of light away from the earth, and returned, you would technically be younger relative to the folks on earth and not as old as you should be. But you cannot actually travel in time, like Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, or Michael Crichton's Timeline (good book though).
And the case for alternate dimensions, I think, should be made separately, for even if there are alternate dimensions, there is no way, according to science, to travel from one to the other, (wormholes would not necessarily do that job).
2006-10-16 04:09:41 · answer #1 · answered by Crystal P 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Are you old enough to remember eight-track tapes? The universes of the multiverse are stacked on top of each other like that, but also most likely at 90-degree angles to the ones above and below them under the dictum that each dimension is 90 degrees from the preceding (up X down X out toward you)
Invoking the much maligned Philadelphia experiment--a WWII attempt at an invisibility cloak--what the scientists inadvertently discovered is that everything in particular universe basically oscillates at the same frequency--this is why you can walk on cement, even though it, like everything else is 90% empty space. One that oscillation rate is changed, you're in a different dimension, and weird thing happen, like people coming back stuck halfway into a deck-plate.
On a more conventional note, every time you make a decision, it spawn two universes--one in which you said yes, and another in which you said no. If you tried to go back in time you would arrive at a past, but no necessarily your own. When you tried to return to your future the chances against finding that particular future would be 00 (infinity), perhaps infinity squared. This is why practical time travel is not a possibility.
2006-10-16 04:15:04 · answer #2 · answered by ericnifromnm081970 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Have you been reading the stories about "John Titor"
John Titor was the name used for the purported time traveler from the year 2036 and for a time was everywhere on the net!
anyway your idea about alternate dimensions and time travel don't mesh. String theory and quantum physics can and do account for other dimensions. but not time travel.
the math just doesn't work....
2006-10-16 04:15:27 · answer #3 · answered by BigBadWolf 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no because if you were going to go back in the past (which is possible eventually, by going faster than the speed of light a hell of a strain on the body ) you would need to go at the speed of light which is 299 792 458 m / s
so if you got to that speed or faster you would go back in time to whatever time but would only lose a second or a bit more from getting to that speed i think anyway
there is also another way with high power lasers but works on a completly different concept
2006-10-16 05:51:22 · answer #4 · answered by metallicash 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
considering that this never really happened and that time travel is not possible I am going to go with no, no on all counts for everything in this story you have fabricated here
2006-10-16 04:02:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
there is a strong case for mathematically based dimensions.
2006-10-16 06:20:52 · answer #6 · answered by MrZ 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋