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2007-02-05 20:45:02 · 26 answers · asked by ross f 2 in Science & Mathematics Physics

26 answers

See the answer that I posted 2 days in the future!

2007-02-05 20:48:14 · answer #1 · answered by Sam G 4 · 0 0

I say there is no such thing as time, only movement. I know it sounds crazy, but think about it. Imagine a world where time is frozen and doesn't change, but everything is allowed to move and grow naturally while time is frozen. THAT is the world we actually live in. Sure, we can build clocks that move at regular intervals, but that does not prove there is something out there called time, only that there is movement.

If time travel WAS possible, that would mean that the universe would have to "memorize" the placement of every object, ever atom, and every memory and duplicate it exactly. How would this be possible? And what if you went back in time to kill yourself? You wouldn't be alive to late go through a time machine and actually kill yourself. And if time travel is possible, why haven’t we met any time travelers from the future?

The fact is time is something humans made up to help communicate what they were thinking. Time is something kept on a watch; it isn't a "real thing” at all, just a concept.

2007-02-06 05:05:18 · answer #2 · answered by Grant G 3 · 1 0

Yes and sadly, no. The thing is owing to chaos effects like the butterfly effect changing the past would possibly disallow your ability to change the past that you haven't gained yet.
The only possible ways out of this conundrum are,
1) The timeline is enchantingly resilient.
However this explanation has defects as the measure of resilience can be called into question.
2) The other is an idea I've been considering that has close implications to a quantum multiverse. It is simply that the timeline is duplicated so that changes made to the timeline are not really changes made to that particular timeline.

Oops there goes my Nobel prize...
Hope this helps!

2007-02-06 05:02:21 · answer #3 · answered by yasiru89 6 · 0 0

Not really, but you can certainly feel like you've travelled through time by simply following these 6 steps:
1.) Go to a class, preferably the class you hate the most
2.) Sit in the back
3.) Place your text book on your desk so that it would stand vertically by itself
4.) Place your arms on the desk behind the textbook so that your arms would cross each other
5.) Place your head on your crossed arms
6.) Close your eyes and keep still as much as you can

By the next thing you know, the class is over. There, one hour of pure time travel.

2007-02-06 04:59:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

A better way to ask this question is "Will time travel be possible?"

Stephen Hawkin asked "If time travel is possibe, where are the travellers from the future?"

Its a good question but with one flaw...future time travellers will hide themselves as being from the future (Wow I out clevered Professor Stephen Hawkin).

I remember seeing on a programme many years ago (I think it was "Unsolved Mysteries") where they found a gold locket - like you get on neck chains - many miles down in an ice core, so maybe it will be....

2007-02-06 05:01:34 · answer #5 · answered by Girugamesh 4 · 0 0

according to Einsteins theories some of which have been proven. I.E time goes slower on the top of a skyscraper than at the bottom or flying on a jet compared to walking on the ground proven by minuscule time differences measured only by atomic clocks. Einstein talked of space time and saw it as a real dimension of the universe we live in. And not constant but relative to our position . Nothing in the universe can travel faster than the speed of light , so time itself slows down so a rocket can not travel from point a to point b in a given time that would break this rule. Well time on the rocket would slow down. And according to Einstein time would go in a reverse if a person exceeded the speed of light. Something which he was not sure possible. I know its strange but time is something more real like breadth and width a part of the fabric of this universe

2007-02-06 05:14:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

Some form of time travel is possible. If a person travels into space very fast and then comebacks again the person is younger than if he/she had stayed on the earth, so in a way has travelled forward in time. Unfortunately, it is thought that travelling back in time is probably not possible, although I would like to think it is.

2007-02-06 04:55:42 · answer #7 · answered by The Oracle 1 · 0 1

Well this is a good subject, i belive it is possible, i agree with easy_rider that area 51 are working on something, i also agree with will_i_am that there are wormholes out there in space somewhere, we just havent found them yet, there could be some here on earth, well we alwayshear of people, ships, and planes going missing... maybe they went through a wormhole and are lost in time somewhere???? i also think that we cant go forward in time as it hasnt happened yet... UNLESS we are in the past and there is an US in the future???? I have always wondered if this question will ever be truely answered.. i hope so....

2007-02-06 04:59:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

The following website deals with the possibility of Time Travel and how we might actually one day achieve it.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/time/index.html

the next website has alot of information of other forms of Time Travel and the paradoxes that we encounter when we talk about the possibility of Time Travel

http://www.crystalinks.com/timetravel.html

The above website is the best that I have found so-far about Time Travel.

I hope that this answers your question.

2007-02-06 05:12:38 · answer #9 · answered by matt1 2 · 0 1

No!
The past has already happened and can't happen again, I know we all wish we could go back in time and change things we have done, but we can't!!
The future hasn't happened yet and there is no way of knowing what is going to happen! It wouldn't be very good if we all knew what was going to happen in our life and how we were going to spend it.

2007-02-06 04:51:56 · answer #10 · answered by Miss Pink 3 · 0 0

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