According to our current knowledge of physics, the answer is a big NO.
It is one of those things that sounds oh-so-cool, but unfortunately is impossible. It all has to do with the physics of it. Einstein's special relativity is a marvelous theory that puts mathematics to your question and answers no. Sorry for the bad news.
As an aside, this site by Nova is quite interesting:
2006-12-21 06:35:19
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answered by mango_madness 2
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This process has to be explained properly. Basically, a time machine is not what we see in films. If one day, science would be able to make a time machine, it would just be a network of lasers because when a particle will get hit continously by one laser & the other, it may get aceelarated upto 300000 km/s, which is the speed reqd. for time travel. But we would not be able to go to the time before the existence of the time machine.
For e.g. - If the time machine is made on 22nd Dec 2006 at 4:00 p.m, we will not be able to travel before the above date & time. We MAY travel be able to travel in the future or at any time after the specified time BUT NOT BEFORE.
But the above facts are also hypothetically true. It would be very difficult to regulate the motion in the past or future.
2006-12-21 16:48:11
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answered by shailendra s 3
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Technically science can't make anything, but people can. Science is a process applied to study the way the world works by observing and testing it. As far as scientists ever being able to make a time machine, no. It would violate the laws of physics. (Unlike normal laws you can't break the laws of physics.) You can only go forward in time and stop it relative to an outside perspective. Hope this helps. Yours truly,
Mervin DePervin
2006-12-21 06:19:20
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answered by Mervin DePervin 2
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Time travel not so much. Yet. However, they do have a transportation machine that can send molecules across a short distance and this was a couple of years ago. The progress may have become a lot more advance by now and can do a large group of molecules or more. For time travel though, right now it seems unlikely.
2006-12-21 06:11:16
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answered by Fallen 6
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Yes,science will be ever able to make a time machine.
2006-12-24 03:48:27
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answered by ? 2
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there is a way to travel through time it is theoretically possible. here's how (this trick obides ALL the laws of physics that we know and does not involve faster than light speeds or wormholes or anything like that)
first you must understand a few things about time
1. for classical objects (such as people and planets) time is a one-way thing.
2. Time is as much of a dimension as any of the co-ordinate dimensions (x,y and z). so the x,y,z and time are called 'space-time.
3.Spacetime is bent by massive objects, this is what gives us the illusion of gravity and such phenomena as black holes.
Ok. Time is a dimension just as much as x,y,z but in time we can only go forward, if we descibe this in (say) the x co-rdinate it is like only being able to move right. So imagine if we could move up, down, forwards, backwards and right (not left) this is the kind of restriction that time has. now if you need to move left (travel back in time) all you need to do is change you orientation so that your left is now where your right was (so jut turn around) this is essentially the same idea. We need to switch time for one of the 3 space dimensions. An American mathematician (Frank Tipler) has proven this theory to work mathematically without breaking any known laws of physics.
(now come the practical complications)
To build your time machine you need something with as much mass as the sun, then you need to compress it to be as dense as an atomic nucleus in the shape of a cylinder, such that it is about 100km long and has a radius of 10km . Now all you need to do is make it rotate twice every millisecond so that the outer surface has a speed of half that of the speed of light.
This so-called millisecond-pulsar will drag the fabric of space--time around with it and exchange time for one of the space dimensions. making time-tavel possible.
This does work in theory but the prospects for ever building such a machine are not good. there is an object in our universe that has the right mass and density but rotates only once every 1.5 millisecond, 3 time slower than required.
2006-12-21 20:40:36
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answered by Parth 1
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According to the physics trilogy, E = mc2, m = E/c2, and c2 = E/m, it is not possible. Notice that the only unchanging value is that of "c2". The reason this value does not change is that it is the basis of both mass and energy. This value according to the "c2 = E/m" concept is that of physical time. It is for this reason that all events pass from the present into the past at the same rate of flow. It also expresses the limit of our existence. We exist for a period of time so small that we never actually percieve any event as it actually happens - it has already passed into the past even before we realize its existence and is being replaced by time of a different count/location.
What this means to us is that there exists only the physical, passing present, and there exists no physical past or future to move toward. Ourselves, as all objects we might wish to use to propel ourselves into a different past or future are all composed of the same present time "c2". There is nothing else to work with, there is no other time.
2006-12-21 07:00:52
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answered by Anonymous
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Just see my argument... I am damn sure that the time Machine will never be Invented!!! Guess why??? Had it been invented then ppl would have used that to come back to Time and see the past and we would have noticed them... But that has not occurred so far.. So we can rule out the possibility of Time machine having been invented...
2006-12-21 17:20:17
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answered by Eshwar 3
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Probably not into the past, but possibly into the future. Even how this works is relative to the observer and is still completely hypothetical. I recently found this link relating to death and time travel and read about it. A common misconception is that time is something that can be traveled in, like a medium, but is scientifically not. This is really interesting and has some good ideas about how it could possibly be done if we had the engineering skills to do it. Check it out!
2006-12-21 06:06:42
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answered by Cawmaster 3
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Thinking outside the box here...Time is a concept or measurement system established by humans. What we think of as time travel will never exist, since we made up the concept of time. The universe is what it is and we came up with a concept called time to describe the cycles that occur naturally (sun rising and setting, change of seasons, etc).
2006-12-21 06:37:28
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answered by DH 1
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