The future is a considerate point in your mind that doesn't exist materially and never will. It is just like to think that tommorows day exists now. What do you think?
2007-01-27 03:14:15 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
There is no future. When you get there, its the present, after that, the past. Future really does not exist at all. Now, if you are projecting into the future ..is an educated guess as to what might happen. "I think therefore I am" is not the same as "I think it , therefore it is."
So the idea of time machines would just be speeding up your time....not creating a future...you can't go to the future...but...you might be able to speed up your own personal time.
The human mind also has the ability to alter the perception of time. during some event happens, such as a car crash...you might experience time slowing down for that instant....this happens when the brain perceives danger....it needs to take in all the data it possibly can, so it diverts its attention on everything that is happening...this causes us to perceive time at a different rate.
So the mind can adjust the perception of time, but how to actually speed up the process of time itself is very theoretical...but may be possible..the only issue is that the circumstances needed to do so are extreme that they are currently not possible in a controled state.
Still even is you could change your perception of time and change the rate at which time goes by...the future would always be you present.
2007-01-27 03:27:29 · answer #1 · answered by StopPanda 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is totally impossible to see into the future. Using the forces of space, time and speed we may be able to theoretically speed up time but not develop a time machine Back to the Future stylee! Travelling back in time is different. It exists already. Who knows what may be possible with the right technology. The key to this mystery is in the skys above us. Look at a star. The image you are looking at will be the image of that star as it was maybe days, weeks, months or even centuries ago. You are seeing into the past. The light that star gave out takes time to cross the universe and by the time the image gets to earth it is old news. That star may not even exist any more! Even when you look at the sun you are seeing the sun as it was 7 seconds ago!
2007-01-27 03:27:54 · answer #2 · answered by nurseyed 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We could be in the past and the future is happening as we speak. Time travel can't have been invented yet in the future because no one has come back from the future to show that's it worked. So the question is "How many years in the future has the future gone and when in the future will time travel be invented?"
2007-01-27 09:32:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about this?
The only point in time is "now".
The past does not exist, even though there is surviving evidence in the "now" to show what may have occured.
The future does not exist, even though we can consider possibilities/probabilities they may or may not ever occur.
We exist only in the 'moment' and the "arrow of time" flies in only one direction.
A quote.
"The moving finger writes, and having writ, moves on. Nor all you piety or wit can call it back to cancel half a line, or all your tears wash out a word of it."
or
"Make haste, the bird of time has but a little way to flutter, and lo, the bird is a'ready on the wing"
The ideas of time have filled many an afternoon.
If you really want to get swamped, read Hawking's "A brief history of time".
2007-01-27 03:29:53 · answer #4 · answered by sternsheets 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well according to our best theories of physics the whole of spacetime is thought to exist all at once. How do you know the future is a 'considerare point in your mind' Based on what? I suggest you read the fabric of the cosmos by Greene.
2007-01-27 03:37:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the point of view of modern physics is that time is a dimension. asking when something happens or exists is a question about its location in the time dimension in the same way that asking where something happens or exists is a question about its location in the spatial dimension. the scientists of the world believe that the universe has at least four dimensions and possibly more (string theory). Albert Einstein showed us that two events at two different spatial locations will happen at the same time from one frame of reference and at different times from another frame of reference. try looking up "the twin paradox" from relativity.
2007-01-27 03:41:37 · answer #6 · answered by michaell 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time is an abstract concept imposed upon reality by humans in order to make sense of the universe in which they find themselves.
Bloody hell, I'm getting a bit serious for a Saturday afternoon. Must get out more.
2007-01-27 03:19:09 · answer #7 · answered by mcfifi 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you somehow manage to freeze time inside a container for ten years, then from the point of view of the things inside the container, they go forward ten years in an instant.
2007-01-27 03:23:24 · answer #8 · answered by Steven F 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you could go back in time why are there not lots of time travellers from the future here now.?
2007-01-27 04:17:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Would time exist if you nor I were here? Time is merely how we perceive the universe around us - but you are at this moment stuck in this particular piece of time, and nowhen else.
Things can and will only happen one way, meaning that time travel is in itself impossible.
2007-01-27 03:23:16 · answer #10 · answered by Huwbutts 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋