I hope we will one day be able to time travel.
2007-04-25 10:08:24 · 14 answers · asked by Drama Queen 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Not any differently than we do now--one second per second.
If we ever figure out a way to get ourselves up to light speed, a person will be able to take a trip and come back in some time and find that a longer time has passed on earth. Unfortunately, though, he can't get back in time.
2007-04-25 10:11:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I highly doubt we would ever be able to travel back in time. You have to understand that time is a concept, it's not some thing that can be touched or changed. It is just another word for cause and effect. Think about every single little molecule in the entire universe. To be able to travel through time you would have to change back all of them to the state they were in at that time. There's like more atoms in the universe than we could ever imagine. There is no way all of them could ever be changed back.
2007-05-01 01:25:16 · answer #2 · answered by rockcandy123456789 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My personal opinion is NOT, we can't. However, to those who said that time-travel violates physics laws, that's not really true. There are theories that describe what is called wormholes, and a particle (pretty wierd particle) travelling trough those can go back in time. The explanation is quite complicated, but somehow in theory there is a possibility. However, again, my personal opinion is that never would be possible time-travel, at least not like "back to the future" and stuff like that.
J.
2007-05-03 15:54:52 · answer #3 · answered by Javier G 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know this isn't what you're looking for, but you travel in time every time you fly in an airplane. The reason you don't notice it is that you only change a few billionths of a second. Your "clock" on an airplane is running faster than your friends on Earth. This is predicted by Einstein and has been proven many times over by sending extremely accurate clocks on prolonged airplane rides.
Astronauts are growing old even faster, but they won't notice it either.
Hope this helps a little.
2007-05-03 15:53:26 · answer #4 · answered by Larry S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. A popular theme for science fiction writers has been envisioning the various paradoxes that could develop as a result of time travel, such someone going back in time to before they were born and killing their parents. Since nature doesn't allow such paradoxes to occur in the real universe (as far as we know), time travel is most likely impossible.
2007-04-25 17:18:27 · answer #5 · answered by Leonard B 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. We can travel into the future at a rate of 60 seconds per minute.
If we go really, really fast (near light speed), this rate changes, so that we can travel into the FAR future.
Travel into the pass, however, seems to be impossible, due to the paradoxes it would create. Suppose you went back in time and killed your grandfather in his baby crib. Creates problems, doesn't it?
2007-05-03 16:26:01 · answer #6 · answered by Skepticat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually we are time travelling right now forward in time!If you meen travelling back in time,It its hard to get the speed of light to work for us.....But i think it is not possible :b
2007-04-25 17:13:49 · answer #7 · answered by jasonperpose 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think this might be possible in the future.
There have been some experiments done at Bell Labs and more recently at other universities with photons, and their alleged properties resembling possible time travel.
This article brushes over the surface...
http://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/vstenger/Timeless/SolvingTimeTravelParadox.pdf
2007-04-25 17:18:40 · answer #8 · answered by KirksWorld 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, because the basic principles of physics don't allow time travelling, in sens of "backing".
2007-05-03 15:37:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if it can be done without breaking the laws of relativity and there are mathematicians that think it can.
2007-04-29 17:18:57 · answer #10 · answered by J M 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋