Does anyone think time travel will ever be possible?

Answer 1

no, because if was we would have already seen people from the future.

Answer 2

Dear Southpaw:

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With all that stuff in mind, time travel will not be possible in your lifetime or mine. It would appear that time travel backwards is entirely impossible, but that there is a slight flicker of possibility for forward time travel if the right technology were to be developed sometime in the distant future.

At this time i can report that the "G Forces" encountered by our Astronauts in blasting off from the Earth (Start at 0 MPH)
and accelerating to Escape Velocity (.11.3 Km/Sec +, - depending upon direction relative to the Earth's rotation) is about the maximum the human body can withstand.

Acceleration to Light Speed from a standing start ( 0 Mph) would certainly leave the human body in a puddle of mush.

So, do not look for this development to occur anytime soon.

Answer 3

Well of course time travel will (has!) happen(ed). I'm not particularly a weirdo or anything, but just look to the field of quantum physics. We know a great deal NOW about various theories indicating that time is not as linear as we believe. It is COMFORTING to think of time as linear, but what if in fact we step out that thinking for a minute and consider all the possibilities. One such possibility is that with the exponential increase in technology as we see today, it's likely that future generations have discovered how to break out of the space-time continuum, or at least manipulate it somewhat.

Yes, I love sci-fi. However, notice that there is almost always a basis in real science in these shows before the writers' fertile imaginations take over.

There are many such books, from old classics to newer titles. Try a Wrinkle in Time, ___ Jane Eyre(I forget the first part, google it), and movies such as clockstoppers, etc.

It's fun and scary to think of time travel!

Answer 4

I respectfully disagree that travel in time (forward and backward at will) is NOT possible.

Read Kip Thorne's conjecture about fishing 2 wormholes out of the quantum foam, enlarging them and holding them open with exotic matter (and negative energy), moving one relative to the other at close to the speed of light away from each other and then back again, jump in one, come out the other in the past! You can only travel as far back in time as to when the time machine was created to avoid the classical time-travel paradoxes.

To travel fast(er) into the future, just zoom your spaceship real close to the event horizon of a black hole.

Simply an engineering problem, what with exotic matter, negative energy, quantum foam fishing and zooming up to black holes!

Answer 5

No. Time travel is completely impossible. It's simply a fabricated sci-fi concept to make movies more interesting. It is especially ridiculous to think that you can go to the future or past, and "meet yourself" there. It's not like all time is existing at once, and all you need is a machine to take you to the different universes and dimensions of time.

Answer 6

Dude, we're traveling through time RIGHT NOW...forward...at the normal rate of time....AMAZING!

As for moving backwards in time or waaaaaaaaaay forward. No way. According to Einstein, that would involve moving at the speed of light, which is impossible.

Answer 7

We travel through time now - admittedly in one direction at one pace only. If you men like Dr Who or The Time Tunnel. I don't think we will.

Answer 8

if time travel can occur, then we seem to be facing inconsistency in nature. it looks as if we could create factual contradictions by changing the past in ways tt could not give rise to the present. u could bring abt the death of ur ancestors so as to exclude the possibility of ur own birth. ur current existence wud den seem to constitue a logical contradiction. we could oso create information out of nothing. i could learn pythagoras theorem from a textbook and travel back in time to meet pythagoras as a young man to give him the idea of his theorem b4 he had thought of it. where wud the information in the theorem come frm? i learned it from him and he learned it from me! so, what do u tink is the possibility of time travel now?

Answer 9

if time travel gets invented, ever, they'd have to go to great pains to avoid us knowing about it. all it takes is one emotional person warning someone else that if they do a certain thing, theyre gonna die, or worse, causing a death, and...

Answer 10

No... if it were possible, quantum physics would fall apart and we wouldn't exist.