If you were in your own world, where the laws of physics didn't exist, then yes. You will be able to do time travel, successfully.
when it comes to real life, no. You will not be able to complete time travel, unless it is mentally. With the laws of physics killing this possibility, time travel is only science FICTION. Two branches of physics that keep this from happening is newtonian physics(also known as classical physics) and 20th century physics(relativity).
According to the thoery of Special Relativity(developed by Albert Einstein), an object that moves faster will experience a delay in time. For example,a person moving at high speeds may have their watch ticking a little slower than that of a person at rest. As a person moves closer and closer to the speed of light, time will begin to travel slower and slower. When the velocity reaches the speed of light, time will freeze completely.
If a person travels faster than the speed of light, time will begin to rewind. One problem is that it is already impossible to travel AT the speed of light. Accordind to another part of relativity, infinite energy is required to reach that speed, let alone travel faster than light speed.
Goind to the future is just as hard as going to the past. In order to make time travel faster, you will probably have to travel at a negative speed. According to classical physics, speed is a scalar quantity, not a vector. Thus there is no such thing as traveling at a negative speed.
2007-07-10 15:04:12
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answered by Danny 4
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Theoretically, going past lightspeed could take you to the future, but you'd all the energy in the universe to get there and your own subjective time would remain constant.
Potentially a black hole might allow you to jump forward subjectively, although to the rest of us you'd just spend eternity, or at least the life of the black hole, hovering on the event horizon. Also the gravity well would mean you'd have a problem ;-) leaving.
So I guess from a practical standpoint I'd have to say no.
Except....
I'm not an expert (by any means) but doesn't string theory hint at possible additional dimensions that could allow movement along alternative dimensional axis, so you might 'travel' in time rather than length? I may be way off here, someone call a physicist. I just think we may be in a three/four dimensional 'bubble' and therefore can't perceive other options.
2007-07-10 19:17:29
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answered by Doom 2
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You are always going into the future. Think about it. Tomorrow, you'll be one day in the future.
You can also travel into the future much faster by moving at near the speed of light. A small amount of time will pass for you, but much more time will pass back on Earth.
Backwards time travel is still only hypothetical.
2007-07-10 19:07:18
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answered by lithiumdeuteride 7
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simple answer? nope! complicated answer? in order to go back we must move forward, go into a continuum curve in order to 'go back in time'. time is linear so in order to go back you must travel in the same path until it makes its own u-turn, then, voila! eisenburg (sp?) and einstein, at different times, have worked on this conundrum and kinda' came up with the "possible" solution of time travel as being near-to-impossible (or at least by their thinking). but don't fret, my pet, as the longer we live and the longer physics is being explored, the more we find out two things: newton wasn't perfect in his three laws AND exceptions are always possible.
2007-07-10 19:17:53
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answered by blackjack432001 6
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Didn't you ever see the episode of Rob & Big where they tried to time travel. I think we all know that proved it doesn't happen.
2007-07-10 19:21:53
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answered by Anonymous
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yes esily if u no the secrect of time travil and the univere but the possibilaty of a time machen is like 45% workin
2007-07-10 19:13:32
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answered by mad man 2
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Theoretically yes but then again, how are you going to get the plutonium?
2007-07-10 21:51:07
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answered by fefe k 2
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Are you an alien trying to get back to your time period?
2007-07-10 20:29:29
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answered by Yo Momma 1
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Tom Jones. What's new pussycat?
2007-07-10 19:09:24
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answered by dddbbb 6
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Yes it is. I saw it on TV.
2007-07-10 19:17:38
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answered by Dr D 7
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