And if so, why hasn't someone from the future came back and proved it to us yet?
2006-12-23 16:53:42 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
What would happen if you killed your grandfather before he met your grandmother?
2006-12-23 16:55:31 · update #1
Even if time travel was possible, which is surely a debate worth having, no one from the future or the past would be able to come into our present to prove it to us because of the Butterfly Effect (if you've seen the movie you know what it is).
Any action, however simple or small but which occurred at the wrong time, could create catastrophe and destruction in another time frame, so I think this question is moot because of such uncontrollable effects.
2006-12-24 06:58:17 · answer #1 · answered by STILL standing 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think it's possible but no one wants to prove it cuz if you think about it any small change in any time period could seriously alter life as we know it, like, say someone went back in time and prevented JFK from being shot or something. The world would be a totally different place, with different issues and different rules. It's best just to leave everything the way it is and move foreward. You can't change your past without screwing up your future. The Butterfly Effect should have taught you that.
2006-12-24 00:58:41 · answer #2 · answered by NBinGP 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Time travel into the future is possible if you travel close to the speed of light, but according to Einstein's relativity theories time travel backwards is impossible, so you could never return from the future. Maybe there will be another paradigm shift in physics and we'll find out time travel backwards is possible, but I don't know how all those logical time travel paradoxes would get resolved.
2006-12-24 01:02:54 · answer #3 · answered by KatGuy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I believe that time travel is possible. However, I don't belive it is like what people see in movies . I have no degree in such matters but the way I see it is pretty simple to explain. It seems to me that once be can go faster than the speed of light ,we will be able to move into future but not return to the present or travel into the past.
2006-12-24 01:00:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Would be tough... imagine blinking back in time 100 years... or even an hour for that matter. You would re-appear in empty space as the earth is constantly moving. So, you would need to slip back in time and manage the constant movement of everything in the universe.
2006-12-24 01:00:38 · answer #5 · answered by justr 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, if we could travel close to the speed of light, then we could travel further into the future in a given amount of time.
2006-12-24 00:58:27 · answer #6 · answered by Arnoux 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I believe it is possible and we have not got it yet.I will volunteer to be the first to go, I want to go back first to see dinosaurs, then Jesus.I also believe in the alien sighting reported or recorded for thousands of years, they are probably time travelers.
2006-12-24 00:58:16 · answer #7 · answered by gwhiz1052 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I built a "time machine" when I was 8 and it didn't work..dangit!
I have never seen anybody travel through time. So, I really have no verifiable way of saying that it's possible. I suppose it could be.
2006-12-24 00:56:38 · answer #8 · answered by Princess Purple 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
only for electrons to go back in time and become positrons. the only thing that keeps the past, present, and future from all happening at once is a stubbornly persistant illusion - Einstien
2006-12-24 00:58:35 · answer #9 · answered by phtokhos 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Maybe they don't want to affect the space time continum? Changing the past can affect the future.
2006-12-24 00:55:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋