Time travel will never be possible.

[thecresta]

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We're looking for an answer to a question we do not understand. Although somebody out there might know, us normal folks will never be in the loop.

Besides, how do we know the timeline isn't changing all the time? I could have been an orangutan five minutes ago, but if the timeline has changed I would never know that, as it never happened...

Woah, my head asplode!

 

[BaronXS]

So we all agree that the only way to travel through time is to match exceed or almost match the speed of light, seriously, we all know that no matter how well we understand physics or advance our principles of science and technology that this will never be achieved. If it is, we sure as hell won't be able to return from the speed of light into anything material except molten goo.

This is exactly right. So basically, yeah, it might be possible to time travel in the future, but once you arrive in the past, you've been disintegrated-- HOLY CRAP! Breakthrough! Time travel WILL be possible, but can't be used since it KILLS you!... Or rather, that's my new theory.

 

[hamiltond465]

http://dresdencodak.com/2007/09/04/an-exotic-matter/

The bottom half is a theory that might work. We just dont know enough about worm holes/black holes to be sure.

So we all agree that the only way to travel through time is to match exceed or almost match the speed of light, seriously, we all know that no matter how well we understand physics or advance our principles of science and technology that this will never be achieved. If it is, we sure as hell won't be able to return from the speed of light into anything material except molten goo.

I agree that the near-speed-of-light theory could work, but what comes out the other side can really only be classified as raw material...

 

[PureChaos]

it may be possible but so far into the future that no-one cares about now so they won't come back here because no-one cares. if they wanted to 'fix' their lived it may just be that the times that needed 'fixing' still haven't yet happened

 

[Zombie_Fish]

So we all agree that the only way to travel through time is to match exceed or almost match the speed of light, seriously, we all know that no matter how well we understand physics or advance our principles of science and technology that this will never be achieved. If it is, we sure as hell won't be able to return from the speed of light into anything material except molten goo.

This is exactly right. So basically, yeah, it might be possible to time travel in the future, but once you arrive in the past, you've been disintegrated-- HOLY CRAP! Breakthrough! Time travel WILL be possible, but can't be used since it KILLS you!... Or rather, that's my new theory.

If the speed of light theory was true, then it would only work for travelling forwards in time. Light may be the fastest thing in the universe but that doesn't stop it from only going forwards into the future. Oh and yeah, if you did go through that, you'd not even be pulp on the other side, I agree with that.

 

[BaronXS]

So we all agree that the only way to travel through time is to match exceed or almost match the speed of light, seriously, we all know that no matter how well we understand physics or advance our principles of science and technology that this will never be achieved. If it is, we sure as hell won't be able to return from the speed of light into anything material except molten goo.

This is exactly right. So basically, yeah, it might be possible to time travel in the future, but once you arrive in the past, you've been disintegrated-- HOLY CRAP! Breakthrough! Time travel WILL be possible, but can't be used since it KILLS you!... Or rather, that's my new theory.

If the speed of light theory was true, then it would only work for travelling forwards in time. Light may be the fastest thing in the universe but that doesn't stop it from only going forwards into the future. Oh and yeah, if you did go through that, you'd not even be pulp on the other side, I agree with that.

As Mjolnir said before, if you go forward in time to a certain extent, you can actually go BACK in time, or something like that. Look a few pages back, it's there somewhere.

 

[Zombie_Fish]

So we all agree that the only way to travel through time is to match exceed or almost match the speed of light, seriously, we all know that no matter how well we understand physics or advance our principles of science and technology that this will never be achieved. If it is, we sure as hell won't be able to return from the speed of light into anything material except molten goo.

This is exactly right. So basically, yeah, it might be possible to time travel in the future, but once you arrive in the past, you've been disintegrated-- HOLY CRAP! Breakthrough! Time travel WILL be possible, but can't be used since it KILLS you!... Or rather, that's my new theory.

If the speed of light theory was true, then it would only work for travelling forwards in time. Light may be the fastest thing in the universe but that doesn't stop it from only going forwards into the future. Oh and yeah, if you did go through that, you'd not even be pulp on the other side, I agree with that.

As Mjolnir said before, if you go forward in time to a certain extent, you can actually go BACK in time, or something like that. Look a few pages back, it's there somewhere.

That is based solely around the theory that time is an infinite passage; that it is a loop. The result being that it is open to opinion and belief. I for one, believe in time being a straight line, with a beginning and an end. Whether it is or not, I don't know, nor do you, nor does Mjolnir07.

 

[Dark assassin for hire]

Time travel shouldn't be possible ever. The second you start time traveling, you would create an alternate universe and if you come back, you will create another alternate universe. If you were to travel past your death, you could possibly make a world where no one is dead. If no one is dead, no one is alive and we would all immediately vanish along with everything humans have ever made. It would be as if humans never lived. You could also blow up the world because time travel isn't possible.
Look on the bright side. Maybe you were suppose to travel through time. Pretend your life is a book. The story doesn't change and everything that happens is suppose to happen. Chapter 56, I have made a time machine and went through time. I killed a man named Tom Blaffledebloop and nothing changed because I was suppose to go back in time and kill him.
pretty much, the book is your destiny.
that's all from me today. See you tomorrow when we will be talking about "clicks" and what is yours. Good evening, I am Doc Dark.

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[.Ricks.]

Uhm.... if it indeed were possible wouldn't someone from the future have visited us already? Why haven't they come?

Yup impossible alright

 

[UpsetGoldfish]

the truth is humanity will never invent a time machine in there existence otherwise they would have already come back and tell us stuff about the future and they haven't so the 5 billion years leading up to the sun going supernova and swallowing Mercury Venus and earth before finally exploding humanity will not master the fifth dimension. but humanity may finally collonise planets in other star systems and survive for millenia after >_<

Is this comm channel secure?

I am from the future, the year 2747 to be precise. We, the resistance, have been fighting our intergalactic war with the Xanadians for almost 35 years now, but we don't know how much longer we can take. Our only hope in winning this war is to find a certain "John Connor" from this current timeline. Wormhole travel is the key. If i can take John Connor back into my timeline, or prevent him from being killed, we may win the war. PLEASE HELP ME.

LORD XENU IS WATCHING OVER US: SCIENTOLOGY WASN'T A LIE

HELP ME DEV-

*comm transmission lost*

 

[BaronXS]

the truth is humanity will never invent a time machine in there existence otherwise they would have already come back and tell us stuff about the future and they haven't so the 5 billion years leading up to the sun going supernova and swallowing Mercury Venus and earth before finally exploding humanity will not master the fifth dimension. but humanity may finally collonise planets in other star systems and survive for millenia after >_<

Is this comm channel secure?

I am from the future, the year 2747 to be precise. We, the resistance, have been fighting our intergalactic war with the Xanadians for almost 35 years now, but we don't know how much longer we can take. Our only hope in winning this war is to find a certain "John Connor" from this current timeline. Wormhole travel is the key. If i can take John Connor back into my timeline, or prevent him from being killed, we may win the war. PLEASE HELP ME.

LORD XENU IS WATCHING OVER US: SCIENTOLOGY WASN'T A LIE

HELP ME DEV-

*comm transmission lost*

Haha... movie references...

 

[Mozared]

of course time travel is possible, we already travel through time perfectly well.
in one direction.

I am quoting that one in my MSN name good sir, it deserves to be read by more people.

 

[MasterSqueak]

I donno if someone mentioned this, but because of that, his ancestry would never exist, so he'd disappear, keeping him from killing the ancestor, thus allowing him to be born. Rinse, wash and repeat.

Thus pwning reality, and creating an alternate reality.

I just solved a paradox.

 

[NeroDante12]

Nope. Never will happen.

 

[Biosophilogical]

Just to point something out to the time-paradox people, if an evil/idiotic person went back in time before our present (now) then wouldn't we already see the effects. e.g. kill the first humans, well how are we discussing this cause in the future the person would stop us existing.

Not trying to be a buzz kill or anything but i don't believe time travel is practically possible. The only way i can think of reversing time would be to reverse the motion of everything in our universe so that it follows the exact path it had already travelled. All this while a container (time-machine) was completely unnaffected, making the person inside "go backwards in time".

EDIT: I never really understood the 'faster than the speed of light' theory. Technically the only way that would work is if someone assumed that light was instantaneous, and that to travel faster is to travel a distance in negative time, OOOORRRR, they theorised that you would see events happening backwards cause you were moving from present light rays into ones issued from past events, which would not make you travel back in time, just give you the illusion you are.

DOUBLE EDIT:!!! Can someone please explain why going faster/near the speed of light changes anything about how you progress through time!!!

 

[lostclause]

So we all agree that the only way to travel through time is to match exceed or almost match the speed of light, seriously, we all know that no matter how well we understand physics or advance our principles of science and technology that this will never be achieved. If it is, we sure as hell won't be able to return from the speed of light into anything material except molten goo.

This is exactly right. So basically, yeah, it might be possible to time travel in the future, but once you arrive in the past, you've been disintegrated-- HOLY CRAP! Breakthrough! Time travel WILL be possible, but can't be used since it KILLS you!... Or rather, that's my new theory.

Since this conversation seems to be reaching a conclusion I'm going to fuck it up a little. It is possible to slow down time in a way that has nothing to do with speed: gravity. Gravity is created by mass, an element's mass is created by the Higg's Boson. Thus if we figure out how to manipulate that time travel may be possible without having to reach the speed of light.

 

[Jang]

I have made I timw machine! Evil men would claim that it has way to many flaws, and other will even claim it's just a box!

I only gow forward in time, but if you sit in it you will move forward in time. Slowly. You can travel 24 hours into the future, but it will take you 24 hours to get there =D

 

[Ezzay]

Traveling Forward in time is plausible.

Going back in time is not.

Don't ask how I come to this conclusion, it just seems pretty freaking obvious you cant go BACK in time. The universe would implode.

 

[zauxz]

Never say never.

?Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.?
-Lord Kelvin, ca. 1895.

?Well informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value.?
-The Boston Post in 1865.