Poll: Time Travel is Impossible, or at the Very Best, Highly Unlikely

[Rusty Bucket]

Of course it's impossible. Time is not a thing, you an't travel through it.

 

[ThePirateMan]

Here's another soul crusher- we'll never colonize other planets, because we lack the capability to travel faster than light, and there is no physical way to travel faster than light.

You won't get to be Han Solo. Ever. Even if you were born five hundred years from now.

What does not being able to travel faster then light have to do with not being able to colonize other planets..?

 

[bfgmetalhead]

well just living is 'traveling' through time so it's pretty much being done since humams existed

 

[BlumiereBleck]

Time travel is not impossible. Just find a black hole that can be able to withstand the travel, you can be rewritten within God's channel and travel into the past or future.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

I've heard a couple of theories that say it's possible, but all of them require the kind of resources and power that it is WAY beyond anything I can ever concieve happening.

But you never know what lies around the corner. A hundred years ago the idea of ever landing on the moon, let alone going into space was pure fantasy.

 

[DarkLordofDevon]

Whilst is makes good sci fi, the science makes it unlikely. There are limits to the laws of physics and we are heading towards them.

 

[Staskala]

Of course it's impossible, same thing goes for teleportation (of matter).
But what does it matter? Sci-fi in general is just dreaming about unlikely things, you don't care about actual science.
Speaking of which, here's another shocker: Real science is pretty fucking boring.

 

[Tharwen]

Well... time doesn't really exist in that sense, so it's not an issue.

 

[ImprovizoR]

Boundaries are crossed by those who believe boundaries to be of relative rather than absolute nature. So one day it might be possible. A hundred years ago who would have thought that you will be able to talk to anyone in the world in front of a small box? That's just one of many examples. Time travel may seem physically impossible, but we found ways to use the laws of physics to do remarkable things before, have we not?

Of course it's impossible, same thing goes for teleportation (of matter).
But what does it matter? Sci-fi in general is just dreaming about unlikely things, you don't care about actual science.
Speaking of which, here's another shocker: Real science is pretty fucking boring.

Actually teleportation is possible. The first experiment was done in 1997. It is still far from Star Trek version of it, but you gotta start somewhere.

 

[Rofl-Mayo]

Most of the time travel theories are wrong, and it is impossible to go back in time, I'll admit that much. However, going into the future is totally possible, Stephen hawking talked about it one time. I can't remember it too well, but i remember him saying it is possible to go into the future but not the past. If you are inside something that is going fast enough, time inside the thing you are in will slow down making you age differently, that speed is currently impossible for man to reach but in the future it may not be just a dream. The biggest problem with this though is that to get going that fast you would have to be in space, but being in space long enough will weaken your muscle mass and make you weaker.

Time travel is indeed possible, just not achievable at the moment.

 

[Tich]

As the great Rodney McKay once said to his collegues:

I've already thought about this matter but never published it.

But seriously. Also, our galaxy moves too. We can't know how fast it's going, but still. The current movement we know off makes us moves so far away in so little time, that time travel would cause us to reappear somewhere in the middle of space somewhere else.

 

[Right]

Time traveling is possible, in fact time traveling is possible right now. Time moves faster around an object when it moves, proven by a guy called Einstein.

 

[Zorg Machine]

100 years ago, it was an accepted fact that you couldn't travel through space. It was also a fact that all of space was filled with a mystery subject that couldn't be measured or seen. And also, 150ish years ago, respectable scientists claimed that everything that could be invented, has been invented.

Yes, I think time travel is possible.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Actually both are theoretically possible. Travelling forward in time is seen as something humans could achieve within the next 1000 years if we continue to expand our minds exponentially.

Basically, you could use velocity based time dilation, by travelling very close to the speed of light, or you could bend the space time continuum by residing for a period of time within a very dense, hollow object (a sphere of dark matter?). Time travels faster outside than inside as the continuum is warped and space is much more condensed compared to time within the sphere compared to outside it.

Time travel to the past is hypothetically possible, but isn't seen to be possible for humans to achieve. To travel to the past you need to travel faster than the speed of light, and to do this you need a black hole. Supposedly nothing can escape from a black hole, not even light, so if we managed to reside in the outer parts of the black hole, where it spins, we would not be travelling close to the speed of light in the normal universe, but relative to the still light at the centre of the black hole, we would be moving a lot faster. Then, somehow if we managed to escape the black hole, we would have travelled back in time!

Hooray for scientific knowledge gained from somewhere or other in school...

well if you go this route, then you also have to consider white holes, which is very possible with the idea of black holes, and it somewhat makes sense from some professors i heard talk about it in which across space and time the black and white holes would be interconnected and allow for "time travel" supposedly.

it oddly makes sense but at the same time could be hugely wrong.

ot: i believe we will do it someday..but thats thousands of years away.

 

[ImprovizoR]

Time traveling is possible, in fact time traveling is possible right now. Time moves faster around an object when it moves, proven by a guy called Einstein.

Also, when you look at yourself in the mirror you're looking in the younger version of yourself
True story. I forgot the reason, it has something to do with the time needed for the image to reach you or something like that.

 

[The_Graff]

until we find a way to placate the ancient gods of "fizzix" and "lohgeck" it will remain the source of 3rd rate rubbish fiction. (Terminator and Terminator2 excepted)

 

[Ironic Pirate]

Wait a minute, the hell kind of coyotes do you have? Last night a bunch of 'em wear around my house, my dog barked twice, and they scattered. This is a fifty pound dog we're talking about here, and it was behind a fence. Are you sure the weren't wild dogs or something?

Anyway, no. It's been wonderfully explained several times in this thread by now, so I'm not gonna bother.

 

[Mad Fast]

Time travel is possible to the future, as the faster you move the slower time to you relativily goes. So if you were in a fast moving ship for what to you was 1 year to everyone else it would be 80 years. This is proved as GPS satellite's constantly internal clocks go out of sinc with clocks on earth, this is becuase they move a a different speed. But time travel to the past is impossible, due to the age old problem of paradox's, creating impossibilities that can't exist.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Of course it's impossible, same thing goes for teleportation (of matter).
But what does it matter? Sci-fi in general is just dreaming about unlikely things, you don't care about actual science.
Speaking of which, here's another shocker: Real science is pretty fucking boring.

http://scienceray.com/technology/future-teleportation-technology-possible-yes/

oh rly?

our mind is limited to only what we know, science depends on logic and facts while new ideas and unknowns thrive on imagination, so to combine the two is not something easy.

we will eventually have it, but not for thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of years.


off topic: okay the start of this story..is fucking odd at best. fucking coyotes ambushed you? did you loot them or something? and where the fuck do you live that coyotes are casual about jogging around? and why is this in gaming discussion?