If time travel is possible then does that mean we are part of the past?

Question

if time travel is possible in hundred of years to come does that mean they could travel back to 2007?if so are there travellers around us now?!

Answer 1

We are all travelling in time........if we weren't it would still be yesterday

Answer 2

Time travel is a touchy subject. Assuming your device is made of a forever available material and you have established the equation for time back to time progressing, you could partake in history. The biggest problem however, is figuring out if you ( the time traveler) can interact or if you have to remain silent. For example; You go back to april 12, 1912 to watch titanic sink, a crew man asks for a reason why your name is not on the guest list can you say ' thats cuz i'm a time traveler' or do you have to lie your but off to avoid rewriting history? Remember, Speculation states any interaction in the past could deviate histories course and inevitably alter your future as well. The best example of true plausible time travel was the Manhttan project ( I believe thats what it was called) where a warship was time warped to a naval base, the final results were horrific; people were bonded to the deck, others lost there minds and still even more were unaccounted for. After this experiment the government supposedly quit trying to acheive any form of time travel.

Answer 3

Time travel is against the laws of physics as we know them. It is possible to slow time relative to you by travelling very fast - but you can only "travel" forwards (in reality you're just making time go slower relative to outside in whatever vehicle you're travelling in). Backwards time travel is far too full of paradoxes for it to work.

Say you take the old "don't step on an ant, it could change the world" theory. You go back to 1900 and step on an ant, expecting to return to 2007 and see that everything is totally different. But in OUR 1900 (the one that actually happened) a time traveller MUST have appeared and trod on the ant, IN ORDER TO CREATE THIS HISTORY. Or maybe not.

Answer 4

A good question. But that , I feel will not be possible. You may travel into past, but you may not reach the same point where you would like to reach. There are infinite number of possibilities.
Let me give you a small example. A glass jar on a table fell, got broken and fragments got scattered all around. Suppose that you record the event on a movie film. If you play the film from backwards, you will see that all the fragments got up from their respective places and finally the glass jar complete in all respects will be on the table as it was before. But in real life, that is only one of the possibilities. There are infinite number of possibilities that the fragments do get up but position themselves in a completely new way.

Answer 5

according to einstein and backed up by stephen hawking,theoretically time travel would be possible if you could travel at the speed of light, just look at the stars in the sky, some of the stars you see are not there they blew up years ago so you are in fact seeing the past, however nothing with a mass or weight can travel at the speed of light, so theoretically time travel is possible but practically , impossible

Answer 6

I don't think time travel is possible in the way H.G. Wells described it but time is not an absolute measurement. Gravity can slow time down as can high speed. The clocks in satellites have to be adjusted as they are travelling so fast they don't go as fast as clocks on earth and a clock at the top of a mountain will go faster than one at sea level as it is farther away from earth's centre of gravity.

Answer 7

Everyone is taking this so serious, look up Dragonball Z the Cell Saga. This animie gives the best explanination for time travel, it you travel to the past it is your past but it will create a new time line. Star Trek also has some good theroys.

Answer 8

I would LOVE it if time travel were possible. But it isn't and never shall be. But, if it were, then wouldn't it be the greatest thing ever? I bet Richard Branson would set up a business venture - Virgin Time Travel - £500 to go back a week, £2000 to go back a year, £10000 to go forward ten years.

Answer 9

LOl, is quite possible, but at the moment technology like that is nonexistent, therefore is safe to assume that no, there's no one from the past around us.

But in the future when such phenomenon is no longer a theory, it may be possible to assume that this could be the way to stay young, through space travel!!!!!

Is soo confusing but totally interesting, I took space science last semester, learned a great deal!

Answer 10

There is a man attempting to make a time machine right now, actually... He's a professor at some major university... But he believes that his time tunnel will only be able to communicate the same tunnel during the time it's on...

So, basically, if he turns it on tomorrow and leaves it on for 100 years, the people in 100 years would only be able to communicate back to when he turned the machine on....

Check out this YouTube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRWwI61so5Q

Answer 11

The future has yet to happen, only the present is the movin bit of time, the past has stopped and the furutre is yet to happen, so if there was a way to travel back, then it would be people in the present time of the future, not the people of the future,

Future people are not born yet