time travel must be possible, right?

Question

Because we're doing it right now. We are traveling through time at a certain speed. What chose the speed were traveling. If we are moving through time at our current speed. We should be able to accelerate, slow down and even stop. Is this just a silly idea?
Maybe time is just perceptive. For instance I'm at work today and time is standing still for me. Yesterday on my day off time was gone in what seemed to be a short string of moments.

Answer 1

Very insightful, my friend. I have often had the same thoughts. We are certainly travelling through time during our lifetimes and without perception of movement and change, there would be no time. The funny thing is, we could "jump" from here to there in time by travelling at speeds close to the speed of light. I think that flying in an airplane is the closest an average person can come to doing this. That is why we reset our watches when we arrive at our destination.

But if we could literally travel the speed of light(or faster), we might end up in another dimension or reality or who knows? Jeez.

Answer 2

No, we are not traveling through time. Time is not a thing, not a substance. Time is a concept, basically a way to measure entropy within a system. "Time travel" is bastardized terminology (not legitimate) for the reasons I stated.


Additional: The Universe is the totality of existence.

If you want to know if it is possible for you to be where you are one moment, and then appear on some street corner in some city on March 12, 1919, then yes, that is possible. But that isn't time travel.


I hope my additional statement doesn't make the person who gave me the thumbs up regret it.

Answer 3

Time travel to the past is impossible based on what we currently know about the physical universe. Time travel to the future, by way of time dilation due to relativistic effects is possible. But this is not like the time travel of sci-fi.

Answer 4

particular. we are continually shifting forwards in time each nanosecond. all of us journey our very own individual time line yet truly the quicker you circulate the slower your individual clock is going. in case you depart your comparable twin at an airport after which you fly around the earth interior the process the earths rotation once you get returned to the airport on account which you have travelled quicker than your comparable twin you would be numerous nanoseconds youthful and besides the reality that this result's fairly noticable it is been shown with the aid of using precise atomic clocks. for this reason while you're numerous nanoseconds youthful than your twin you have travelled into the destiny with the aid of assessment.

Answer 5

I always listen to anyone's ideas about time, but I feel that time is a concept of humans. I am unable to explain it thoroughly, and I'm hardly qualified to debate the great scientists who feel that it is an undeniable part of existence, yet I feel that as long as we believe that we are experiencing the flow of time, we are missing out on coming to the truths of our universe.

I'm sort of like a pet dog that knows that the house is on fire but the only way that I can express it is to wag my tail and bark.

Answer 6

time is very much perception. you see how difficult it is to catch a fly....when it sees your hand moving towards him it is the equivalent of a feather falling down to us, real slow.

We can only perceive our time because that is how our senses process information.

Answer 7

Time is the observation of change, so since everything is constantly changing, you would have to reverse that process all over space, but don't rule it out.

Answer 8

by your logic then, to "speed up time" all we need to do is change what we call things, lets call "hours" "days" instead, that way we will be travelling through time 24X faster than we are now.

Answer 9

Only in one direction

Answer 10

Right now its time for you to relax.