2006-11-02 19:59:14 · 37 answers · asked by disco5z 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
the people who sell it will be arrested for fraud
2006-11-02 20:00:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Traveling into the past will never be possible. For if it were, nobody would ever die. Are we alive because it's 2006? Or are we alive because someone from the future is visiting us? A person could pick a point in time and relive it over and over. Let's say from 1950-1960. If time travel were possible then the future already exists and we are dead. So if we are already dead then someone must be visiting us. What happens when he leaves? Do we cease to exist?
Traveling into the future I'm still not convinced it's possible. But if it happens it will be a one way ticket.
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2006-11-02 20:21:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe i'm a ftalist, but i think mankind will destroy itself by trying to change things that happened in the past and because so many people will want to do the same everyone will get tangled up in their history,future and present until the point where you don't know anymore which is the present and which is the reality (sounds pretty much like The Matrix.....) and that's the start of undescribable chaos
2006-11-02 20:04:21 · answer #3 · answered by John X. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm.
Confusion, probably...depends on whether or not the "turning points" of history can be meddled with or not.
If so....well, you'll never know anything changed, will you? If something gets changed in the future, you won't know because it hasn't happened yet, and if something gets changed in the past, you won't know, because it will automatically become history...unless, of course, you are the time traveller doing the changing.
That's where things would get dicey.
You could change something in the past and come back to the present and find the world a very different place...different street names, different people, different styles of cars, TV shows...
Hey, maybe we can get rid of Reality TV that way!!
COOL!!
AND....make the original Star Trek series last more than three seasons....
Now THAT would change the UNIVERSE!!
2006-11-02 20:08:55 · answer #4 · answered by Johnna L 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Assuming for the purposes of your question that a 'working' time machine has been invented, I would think that of those that could afford to have a go in it (about 0.1% of the worlds population), half would go forward in time (to make themselves even richer) and half would go back (to witness and change history).
Either way it is unlikely to be an issue for 99.9% (or more) of the population of the world, in the same way that for a good many years to come; space travel is unlikely to be open to ALL!
2006-11-02 20:09:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would bring the ability for a complete exploration of the Universe and reveal the origins of mankind.
It is of course most unlikely that it will ever happen because In the unlikely that it did, our 'present' would have changed because at least one human would be tempted to take advantage of their subsequent knowledge.
So much of the future would be changed by the advance knowledge of natural disasters, wars, medical treatments, early property/land prices etc. - apart from the fact most of the Bookmakers would now be bankrupt.
Even travel to the future would definitely change our present lives so we will just have to take our chances as they evolve. Peacefully, I hope.
2006-11-02 21:07:19 · answer #6 · answered by Whistler R 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If such a thing is possible, then it has already happend. Although it has happend in the future, the time traveller will already have travelled into his/her past, or even ours. We could be living in a time that 4D travell is happening. The future may have changed because of it, but because we are living in that time line, we percieve our history as accurate.
If time travel were possible we would not know about it, because we do not know about it. Anybody claiming to be a time traveller may be bouncing off of rubber walls, having been committed.
Famous historical events may have happend, purely because of intervention.
Who knows?
2006-11-02 20:05:26 · answer #7 · answered by Alice S 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Imagine you set your machine to send you back two hours , you press the send button and for a fraction of a second you see what space is like from about 12,000 miles from earth and then you explode. Not a good idea!
2006-11-04 05:53:35 · answer #8 · answered by bo nidle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing, as if we travelled back in time, we would not have invented the time machine, and if we lived long enough, continue on in time to invent the time machine again and go back in time again.. We would be stuck in a continuous loop..
2006-11-03 06:11:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, for starters, I will go back in time to when I was in year nine and just as I'm about to tick the box to continue German for the next two years, I'll get a large fish and slap myself around the head.
By Lauren
2006-11-02 23:01:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We know that man never invented a time machine, because if they did! they would have come back in time, and we would have seen them, and known! Then it would have been in the papers, on T.V. on the net! But we have heard nothing! Have we?
2006-11-02 21:45:29 · answer #11 · answered by wheeliebin 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋