Given the incredible forces at work within and around a black hole could this energy be utlized to accomplish time travel?
2007-03-19 12:53:38 · 6 answers · asked by Packer Smacker 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Please read up about relativity before you post such a ridiculous question. I am serious, read up and you will find how ridiculous ur idea is...
2007-03-20 03:53:41 · answer #1 · answered by limpard 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fred’s answer is wonderful! You can’t go into the past and you can’t avoid going into the future! Well said!
But! You can alter the rate at which you travel into the future. The faster you travel the more slowly you travel into the future but you friends and neighbors, remaining stationary keep traveling at the regular rate of 24hr/day into the future.
This means that at high (An I mean really, really high speeds) speeds over a period of time you could travel a couple of hours or days into your future while everyone else traveled many weeks or years into their future. Thus, when you returned from where ever you went at those really high speeds you would have aged a couple of hours or days while your friends aged many years. Thus you have traveled into your future.
As you can imagine, at really extreme speeds it is, in theory, possible for you to age a few minutes while the rest of us aged hundreds or thousands or even millions of years. So, in this way time travel into your future is, in theory, possible.
Not only can high speeds slow time for you so can high gravity. There is a point for every black hole where if you pass it you can never come back into ordinary space. The black hole will have ‘sucked you in’. If you do not come to that point you can, with a strong enough rocket, come back to regular space.
AT that point the force of gravity is so great that tome not only slows down, it actually stops. Yes, stops!
Think about what that means for you if you go there. Suppose you said” I will go there and stay for exactly 0.00003 seconds and then come back into regular space.”
Well, if time stops how will know that 0.00003 seconds went by? How would you know that any time at all passed? You wouldn’t! You couldn’t. Time, for you, has stopped.
So, once you went there, if you ever came back from there (and that is a huge IF! by the way!) you would look around and see absolutely nothing! Nothing! No black hole, no other stars, no rocket ship, no nothing! Probable not eve yourself!
Can you figure out why not? Why would there be nothing? Because if time stopped for you than all time has passed for you! No matter how long you stayed at this point near the black hole, a-l-l t-i-m-e would have to have passed while you were there.
How’s that for traveling into the future?!
2007-03-19 14:27:53 · answer #2 · answered by doesmagic 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What do black holes have to do with anything?
Time travel into the past is a non-starter. Time travel into the future is unavoidable.
2007-03-19 13:10:28 · answer #3 · answered by Fred 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time travel is impossible and a black hole is a place you go into and never come out of and you're ripped apart before you get to the center.
2007-03-19 12:57:56 · answer #4 · answered by Gene 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I believe so, but it's not actually been proven yet, no one has answered this theory, I just agree with it.
2007-03-19 13:02:09 · answer #5 · answered by kbchkidnc 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
this is not time travel. we will find it if it is there
you must rip time and space
2007-03-19 12:58:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋