Time travel -- will it ever be possible?

Question

How do we know it hasn't happened before? Foreward time travel is theoretcially possible due to the existence of space-time and the theories of relativity. What about backwards time travel? Wormholes, maybe?

oops, this isn't really philosophy, my mistake

Answer 1

Not will...It IS possible.....LOL

Answer 2

Time travels are really impossible...If someone been to the past just imagine today you would've noticed some change right now isn't it? Or the WTC would have been saved before the crash and arrest those terrorists before entering in the planes....We've learnt something from the time travel movie and novel 'The Time Machine'. There is always only one timeline in our life.

And about wormholes we can travel through by strong metallic space ship to avoid damage from wormhole's magnetic pull...It'll be great discovery whats on the other side of the universe or galaxies or may be worlds...Maybe we travel in different times...

Answer 3

As Sophist said, entropy gets in the way. So any reality of time ravel that is found will most likely differ from some of the idea most of us have in our minds. Time has possibilities in more directions than the one we are most used to (one line of fixed past to fixed future). Exploiting those possibilities will require us to figure out, probably, what course through these possibilities follows (or at least can reconcile with) the physical laws we know.

It is my view that we cannot travel backwards through time to a physical state in now in entropy. So that is to say, if you went to yesterday it couldn't be the same yesterday as he yesterday you were just in.

The reason I figure it is this way is because I can see entropy as being connected with the aperture of identity. When you let light into something you can't take it back out again. SO yesterday is a certain aperture less than the aperture of today, you can reclose the 'space', but the light let in by the opening of it already is not pushed out. So the yesterday is a different yesterday, its yesterday because it is yesterdays aperture, but it is not you yesterday because you have changed. Oh yeah, and there is not two of you there.

Answer 4

there is not any logical or actual subject with vacationing into the destiny - all we'd desire to do is suited some freezing technologies. There may be a technical and scientific project there, yet no paradox or actual impossibility exists. vacationing into the previous is a distinctive rely, and that i think that that's impossible for here motives: a million. it might invoke paradoxical circumstances 2. If it ever grew to grow to be conceivable, we could have been visited via others from the destiny... or we'd have detected messages or something from the destiny. So... return and forth to the destiny is a one-way trip. much like existence.

Answer 5

Sure it could be Philosophy.

There is a theory that basically says that IF time travel is possible then it must be impossible to change history.

The idea is that if you could go back in time and change the past, eventually someone will change something that will cause time travel to not be invented.

Is it possible to travel backwards in time? Good question. My gut feeling is no. I think that travel through time is a one way deal.

Answer 6

time travel is already done , you can slow down time relative to another for one person , once the times are merged again, one person is ahead ( or the other behind ).

Answer 7

No. There is this thing called entropy that keeps getting in the way.

Answer 8

It's always been possible.

Answer 9

Thinking about time travel, this is how I would do it.

If I could create a Time Travel Teleportation Transport (or T4 for short - or Tesseract 4 for 4th Dimensional Transport or 4DT), I would place it in deep within the moon so that no one could find it.

Having two T4's (one to send into the past to become the time portal), using mathematics to determine the exact location of the moon in its farthest past, I would cause the T4 to send six temporal subspace recording transmitters into the past (one at a time), to materialize at six points within the moon (that together would become the coordinates that would determine the moons center).

If it works, the temporal transmitters would appear in the present as soon as I send it into the past (they being millions of years old but still working) - in actuality, they SHOULD already be there - but that is just a TIME PARADOX. The temporal transmitters would have a record of the moon's various locations over time(providing navigational coordinates for time travel).

With the temporal transmitters in place, I would send the first T4 (T4-1) into the past (which would immediately appear in the present). Now I have a time portal to travel to. The second T4 (T4-2) would remain in the present, to be used to return from the past and travel into the future.

What's interesting is that when using T4-1 to return to Any "When" in time between the time of its initial arrival and at any time in the future, you could use it to travel into the future (or to the "past" from the "present" traveling FROM the past) - and arrive in the T4-1 from a T4-1.

In other words, all you really need is one T4 because it would exist for all time from it's initial past (but if necessary, the T4 can be programmed to return itself to a different location in the moon after 1,000 years - the 2nd T4 would be sent immediately after the first T4, to arrive about 60 seconds later of the time and place of the departure 1st T4's return to the present).

The T4 itself being a portal through time, would allow an individual to cross over from the present into the past and to the future.

To Travel Through Time, the T4 would convert your body's molecules into the form of light your life energy consists of, and place all of the translated molecules into a singularity - meaning that all of your molecules consisting of multi-phasic energy/light, would be able to exist in the same space - in essence becoming a living ZIP file.

As a singularity (each molecule of your existence altogether compressed into one point of light), you would travel through a wormhole that exists in a state that is faster than light - Virtual Infinite Velocity.

If you were capable of becoming light, and moved today at the speed of light for 24-hours, when you stopped, it would be the year 3006. More literally, If you were capable of becoming light, and moved today at the speed of light for 100 SECONDS, when you stopped, it would be approximately 100 hours from now.

Because you would travel 1,000 years into the future traveling at the speed of light for 24 hours, The T4 would actually control the wormhole's time of existence like a camera's shutter mechanism that allows light to pass through it's lens for 1/100,000,000,000th of a picosecond. This would allow you to arrive at a singular moment in time based on how long you moved as light.

Because the wormohole created by the T4 transcends the speed of light at Virtual Infinite Velocity, the wormhole doesn't exist in space but in time - thus the Wormhole doesn't move because it is virtually omnipresent. To travel through time, the T4 first converts you into light; it then transmits a temporal coordinate of the selected "present moment" of departure/arrival time to itself in the past or the future. When the T4 of the past/future receives the temporal coordinate, it transmits its temporal coordinate to the T4's "present moment" of departure/arrival time to itself in the past or the future.

In other words, the two T4's of the past/present/future, TOGETHER opens a SINGULAR Infinite Velocity Wormhole TO EACH OTHER - creating a Virtual Bridge of Time that exists faster than light.

The velocity within the Infinite Velocity Wormhole is constant - but at a pre-determined rate, set by the length of the Bridge of Time (not the length of distance but the length of time). For example, if you wanted to travel 1,000 years into the future, instead of traveling at the speed of light for 24 hours, you would travel at 24 times the speed of light through the Infinite Velocity Wormhole (created and set by the two past/present/future's T4's temporal coordinates), and arrive at 1,000 years into the future in 1/1,000,000,000th of a picosecond.

Simply put, you choose the time you wish to arrive, the T4 converts you into a singularity of light, creates the Infinite Velocity Wormhole set to move the Wormhole around you at E=mcX (determined by the length of time), and you arrive at that time on time every time, and the T4 reconstitutes you from the singularity of light, and you walk out the door of your pre-destined time.