if you had a time machine. would i be right in thinking that you could not go forwards in time. because if you when forwards in time then when you got there it would be the present and the passed. then when you come back to present day the future would be your passed because you have already seen it
2006-12-28 08:23:58 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
The question, as posed, negates the possibility of visiting the future with a time machine based on wordplay, not based on physical limitations. But it is true that you're always in the present, and time is relative to everybody's own experience. All time travel, as you described and as experienced as we move into the "future" (present) every second, is just a shift of time relative to another person's.
Traveling into the past is as easy as travelling into the future. Both are impossible, however, by accellerating to even minor speeds toward a planet that is 10 billion light years away, you will move years into that planet's past. Accellerating away from that planet will shift your relative time into the future. But it's not like you'll notice.
2006-12-28 08:37:19 · answer #1 · answered by Mickey Mouse Spears 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you had a time machine, you could only go forward in time. You couldn't go back because it's gone - but if you slow down your own perception of time you can arrive in the future in less (apparant) time than it would take the rest of us.
2006-12-28 16:27:56 · answer #2 · answered by mark 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes you are right in the 'word' sense I would say but you would not be right if you were to go forward to the year 2200 for example then back to 2007 then into the past to 1600. If you talk about it in actual time markers then yes you can go back into the past.
2006-12-28 16:45:04 · answer #3 · answered by susank2000 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh about half past, quarter to, getting on for now!?
Sorry, do you know I love the idea of a time machine, and any Science Fiction film or series is wonderful, does it not stretch the imagination?!? Not sure how to answer your question thought, sorry you left me behind on the second row!!!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR, this year and the next and the next and the ..............
2006-12-28 18:12:20 · answer #4 · answered by SUPER-GLITCH 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You sound very confused. Travelling to the future would in fact be incredibly easy. Its travelling in to the past that causes puzzles and pardoxes.
I'd recommend The Fabric of Reality or the Fabric of the Cosmos to read about theories of time travel and what physicists think about the chances of ever doing it.
2006-12-28 17:42:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time travel is a certainty, but the problem is the engineering. That is according to the programme Horizon.
2006-12-28 19:36:56 · answer #6 · answered by CLIVE C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There won´t be a time machine because time doesn´t exist.
2006-12-28 16:44:30 · answer #7 · answered by Ganymede 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends, how you look at it, sometimes you can look at the future and see it, and sometimes you cant, but you can always see the past. See what i'm saying ??
2006-12-28 19:54:44 · answer #8 · answered by Craig W 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
im confused did u made a time machine?
2006-12-28 16:26:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, guy, but get a life
2006-12-28 23:26:52 · answer #10 · answered by lulu 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋