Say 300-500 years from now, if we dont extinct ourselves by then, could we have the knowledge to time travel? Look at how far we've advanced in technology in the last 50 years and the rate that it is increasing...
If so, then do we have people walking around from the future right now? They'd probably be smart enough to know not to change anything...
What about aliens? Could they be our future smarter selves? Maybe our earth becomes inhabitable so the elite humans get to inhabit this new planet with new laws of gravity so their body has less mass, which is why aliens are described as skinny. The reason we cant find them is because in our time, they dont exist, but maybe in 500 years we've colonized the moon or something and learn new laws of physics which dont exist on earth which is why we dont have that technology yet.
Am I crazy?
2006-10-20 08:15:34 · 14 answers · asked by Candy C 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Well, there are big logical flaws in the concept of time travel.
Travel backwards in time is logically impossible. Simply because it's impossible to be present in another time in the past without affecting your own future (however hard you try). The simple fact of chaos theory ensures that however little you perturb the status quo you will end up with massively amplified effects which will end up not only changing your own future, but that of the whole world.
As to travel into the future, I'm not so sure but I think you would have the same problems. If you go to the future your absence from your present would necessarily alter your future so that unless you were to return to the present at the exact timepoint at which you left, the future you visited would no longer be the future you have in store (phew! what a sentence).
The theoretical way around these problems would of course be to take account of multiple universe theory (the so-called "many worlds interpretation" of quantum mechanics). If you could travel in time but not within your own universe then the above logical contradictions would not hold. However, that then bounces up against the problem that the many-worlds-interpretation asserts that the multiple-universes are non-communicating. So time travel would violate that.
As to whether you're crazy... not at all. Everything should be open to discussion.
2006-10-20 12:08:53 · answer #1 · answered by the last ninja 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hahahaha! That's not a bad question, and I see you've got some pretty dumb answers. We can't comprehend the though of time travel. It's against probably every physics law in the book. Time travel would be a whole new dimension. But, 4000 years ago, people probably thought of flipping a switch and having a room light up as "Far Out". You never know what's possible.
2006-10-20 16:55:13 · answer #2 · answered by JC 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okay- we CAN actually theoretically travel in time now, at least to go backwards. Forward travel at a trate greater than the present one is a bit harder, but possible in a sense if we use stasis. As for the aliens, present data indicates a psyche too inhuman to be accounted for by chronological drift if technological development continues at the present rate. Either we're impossibly slow, or they are aliens. We wouldn't build ships like that.
And no, you are sane. Insanely sane.
2006-10-20 08:27:37 · answer #3 · answered by sciguy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In 2500 we thought the same thing, until I developed the Photon Influx Coil with Hyper Drive Capabilities. I think that was 2510 when I first traveled back in time and Claimed America for myself, have the deed recorded in 2250, so, it be then before people realize I own America. Well, legally, I not own it until 2251 after I paid the Deed Acquisition Tax.
2006-10-20 08:26:56 · answer #4 · answered by Snaglefritz 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ya u r really crazy
we may not travel in time,but aliens us in the fiture because as there is a hole in the ozone layer,uv rays from sun is increasing day by day.climatic conditions on earth changes.I think earth is gonna become an alien land some million of years later.
2006-10-20 08:27:47 · answer #5 · answered by anu 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it's possible some day we'll figure out time travel. But there are those who say that those who figure it out will not be able to travel back in time to a point before the invention of their time machine, which explains why (we believe) there are no time travelers with us today.
You're not crazy at all! Very creative --- but not crazy, I'd say.
2006-10-20 08:44:15 · answer #6 · answered by Janet712inEngland 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think by the time there could be technology to create such a time travel device, we will all be dead. we care too much about creating new new new things that we don't take care of what's right here. the ozone is MASSIVE... abosolutely MASSIVE... honestly... we will have to leave this planet and colonize somewhere else in order to survive as a species at the rate we are going...
2006-10-20 08:19:02 · answer #7 · answered by baka_desho 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't have any science upon which to base this opinion, but here goes anyway.
I think that causality, e.g. cause and effect, is a basic, fundamental, and immutable property of the universe. Therefore, I think time travel will prove to be impossible.
2006-10-20 09:51:00 · answer #8 · answered by Otis F 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have no idea if you're crazy or not - But what the heck, good question. Answer is no way - physical matter = no time travel. The End ~ Peace~
2006-10-20 08:30:02 · answer #9 · answered by Tooling~guy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Highly unlikely, unless the laws of the universe are changed.....especially the ol E=MC^2 one.
2006-10-20 13:57:41 · answer #10 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋