just wondering....
2007-06-03 09:35:24 · 8 answers · asked by kenneth s 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
I'll let you know next week. If it's possible, it's only a matter of learning how to do it. I've got a foolproof way of learning this, even if I can't figure it out on my own (again, assuming it's possible). I hereby resolve build one and, after I finish it, go back in time to what is now next week. I will then show myself how I build it. However, if I never show up next week, it will prove that it is impossible.
2007-06-03 12:12:12 · answer #1 · answered by Dr. R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Another way to ask this question would be : Is there something within the laws of physics which would prevent travelling through time ?
Currently I could state that travelling in the future is allowed according to the laws of special relativity. If you search the intenet on the "twin paradox", it should tell you that one of the twin end-up younger than the other and therefore this one has travelled in the future of his twin brother/sister.
Are the laws of physics prohibiting travelling to the past ?
I am not sure on this one. I think the debate is still open and some will say "yes" while other will say "no".
We should keep an open mind on this possibility. After all, not all the Laws of Physics have been discovered yet. Quantum Gravity laws could provide many surprises....
2007-06-03 17:14:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes possibility, but maybe also crazy! We are the recorders of time along with other beings that can reason and use memory of some kind. So, whether or not an actual travel of the whole mind, body, and spirit in to the actual past or some other form of the past we can not tell. You might of very well traveled to the past in you mind. Great theorist has argued weather the past exists in its present form or in historical evidence or some other form of storage. If the past is currently happening and can be altered, maybe not our past we produced since we are here, maybe in another dimension. It could be possible to visit it or travel to it, but to move back and forth would seem to me as creating two existences or even ceasing to exist in the physical real at all. Some of our most recognized thinkers have very different opinions of time. The most realistic evidence is that moving from one time to another has not happened nor has it been put into the realm of possibility but rather the movement of time to pass slower or faster some and not others has seemed to be proven. I like the theorist who believe reality is only solidified as we perceive it. What that mean is it takes our conciseness to perceived reality before it becomes reality. Other’s think all things are reflections, but for a reflection to appear an image must exist. It's my belief the greatest scientist with the most proven theories said "All things are possibly"
2007-06-03 16:52:22 · answer #3 · answered by johnhenrykane 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, they are invented all the time but the inventors sabotage each others machines by going back in time and preventing
another inventor from being born. This is why we don't see time machines this very day!
2007-06-03 17:43:31 · answer #4 · answered by knashha 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well i dunno. I know you can alter your brain perception of time. Like if your on drugs it affects ur time for instance. Certain medications also affects your perception of time and motion. But does that make TIME really change? No..it just changes your perception of it. Time is based in my mind on the earth rotating around the sun. Morning and evenings are a constant usually. It rises and sets every day. So if you were to use that as a constant then you have that to go by. Some days at work go slow and others fast. I often wonder if TIME itself changes but none of us notice. I often wonder if i were to do the EXACT same motion and task every day if TIME would go by the EXACT same or if our brain is just subject to our emotions. Bad day...slow day etc. ...
Theorectically i think scientists say its possible but I don't think they can actually invent it.
2007-06-03 16:40:45 · answer #5 · answered by daisy_ysiad2002 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm not sure of the answer but i have often wondered if man ever invents a spaceship that can travel at 10 x the speed of light traveled to the nearest star at the speed of light and imeddiately returned at 10 x the speed of light would they then be able to see their own departure?
2007-06-03 17:34:01 · answer #6 · answered by jim_ridner2001 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a mathematician I'm going to have to defer to the physicists, but from what my physics friends have told me, it has not yet been proven either way whether a time machine could or could not be created.
2007-06-03 16:40:15 · answer #7 · answered by TFV 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, at this though Einstein's theroies of relativity and special relativity suggests it is possible.
2007-06-03 16:43:28 · answer #8 · answered by Sulfol1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋