Is time travel possible?

Originally posted by jnolan
I truly hope not, if we were to be able to look to the future and avoid mistakes that would be allright, but should we go back and change the slightest thing wouldnt everything be different? and not neccesarilly for the good. Also life can be hard sometimes and what if you were to look forward and see your self alone and a failure, your entire life wouldnt be like that but the end result would leave you utterly deppressed.

This I disagree with. Look at the butterfly effect. Everytime he tried to correct something, it scrwed up the future even mroe to the point where he kileld himself before he was even born.

We could not see our selves by traveling back/falwards we would effectivly destroy our selves as only one of every person can exist in single time.

Originally posted by jnolan
I truly hope not, if we were to be able to look to the future and avoid mistakes that would be allright, but should we go back and change the slightest thing wouldnt everything be different? and not neccesarilly for the good. Also life can be hard sometimes and what if you were to look forward and see your self alone and a failure, your entire life wouldnt be like that but the end result would leave you utterly deppressed.

If we were able to see our oncoming mistakes and correct them effectivly we would not have seen the future mearly what could/should have been.

Filth> If you travel at constant speed you experience NO acceleration, no g’s.
It’s during acceleration and deceleration that you feel the g-force.
6 g’s would not equal a speed but an acceleration.

6 g's = 58.8399 m / s^2
1 g is the force that constantly pulls us down to the surface of Earth, 9,82 m/s^2. 🙂

Thats too...out of my league to understand. Im retarded.

I believe that It could be possible but If we can I dont believe we should. Because going back in time would change the path of history.

I agree there. And by making this thread I had no intentions of saying that it 'Should' Be done, just said it'd be nice. But I can see where all the changing paths of history and such comes from.

Originally posted by The Omega
Filth> If you travel at constant speed you experience NO acceleration, no g’s.
It’s during acceleration and deceleration that you feel the g-force.
6 g’s would not equal a speed but an acceleration.

6 g's = 58.8399 m / s^2
1 g is the force that constantly pulls us down to the surface of Earth, 9,82 m/s^2. 🙂

I know that but you would have to accelerat to get to such speeds, even if it could be done with out accelerating you would have to decelerate.

you could do that slowly though couldn't you?
Isn't the problem that your mass would increase or something?

True you could do it slowly but imagen the amount of distance you would need to slow down is would be messured in lightyears so you would be far away from the earth.

And i think you are right about the mass, not sure tho

If time travel were possible then evidence in the past should have already suggested it. Assuming this then the past would have changed and thus we wouldn't be aware of it. Given these two statements, then all of history should look roughly the same as all events should exist at the same moment and quite literally they either can't or our ability to perceive the same is impossible - so no. It can't be done.

Read Vernor Vinge.

I tend to agree with him, that in the future you would be able to travel FORWARD through time, but I rather doubt we will be able to travel back again. Except maybe in a spiritual way, since our spirits don't weigh anything. I actually think that is what happens when we die. We depart out of our bodies, or swop bodies, or go on to another plane of being, or whatever your religion/philosophy tells you to believe in, and then we look at our own lives and we realise how empty or how full they have been. It is this that is our heaven or hell. There is no objective all-knowing judge, unless it is we, ourselves. We judge our own lives and we do it seperate from our bodies, therefore detached from our bio-chemical inputs and able to judge clearly, detachedly, objectively, purely spiritually.

We look at our own lives and in looking, we judge, but it is in a timeless instant that lasts forever. Time become meaningless, since time only affects that which is material, not that which is spiritual. Those who perceive they have lived empty, bleak, lonely and wasted, desolate lives, live in a kind of eternal hell, an eternity that may only last as long as a second for a person still living. I think that is the only way we will ever be able to go back in time, as ghosts, able to see all the mistakes we have made, all the opportunities we have wasted.

The opposite is true as well, of course. If you have enjoyed your life, and lived every moment to the fullest, and opened yourself to love, you will look back at your life in that timeless, eternal instant and be in heaven. However, we will never be able to go back in time in a physical way, I think, with our bodies and our memories unaltered. But we will be able to go forward into the future that way. In fact, we can already do it. It's called cryogenic-freezing. You just can't ever come back. Except maybe in your dreams, and your imagination. Which might be real enough for you, I don't know, but I am quite happy where I am, thank you.

time is like hight and length just another way of getting around for us to change our travel through time is like a 2d cartoon person trying to move in the 3rd dimension

Now I know how people like Philosophicus feel when they are reading posts such as $%^%&*(w/e you think you know) and get quite "disgusted with some posts" that he don't even want to post anything... lol....(too childish for him)

Quit provoking him.

not prevoking him.. prevoking u people... lol

but then life would be a simple game after that... oh I dropped that pricess vase.. let me just time travel.. bam fixed it.. isnt that a little 'too' perfect?.. and what if you got time travel traffic lol .. hundreds of people jumping time simultaneously... a collision at that speed would be pretty dirty.. also..the act of meeting oneself in the past I think can both have wonderful or disastrous effects of course.. perhaps you can escape gaining a scar you have one your arm or something.. and then again you might ruin your way of percieving the world. Eventually it might even be like living a second life.. still I think a world without regret wouldnt be a good world..because I think we'd eventually lose the ability to regret after having so many "2nd chances" at different events.

http://freespace.virgin.net/steve.preston/Time.html

For those who dont believe in time travel. its only impossible because we dont have tha technology.

Originally posted by SaTsuJiN
but then life would be a simple game after that... oh I dropped that pricess vase.. let me just time travel.. bam fixed it.. isnt that a little 'too' perfect?.. and what if you got time travel traffic lol .. hundreds of people jumping time simultaneously... a collision at that speed would be pretty dirty.. also..the act of meeting oneself in the past I think can both have wonderful or disastrous effects of course.. perhaps you can escape gaining a scar you have one your arm or something.. and then again you might ruin your way of percieving the world. Eventually it might even be like living a second life.. still I think a world without regret wouldnt be a good world..because I think we'd eventually lose the ability to regret after having so many "2nd chances" at different events.

You only say that it is perfect because you imagined in your head that it is perfect. People lived in this world, and some claims that experience made them who they are. If one is to erase one's experience, then what would you be??? Simple, just a baby in a grown up body!!!

To make it simple, the world is perfect already.... Nature is perfect... and this is just part of nature, and for you to discuss it, and for me to object, it just makes me feel wonderfull!! For everything going on around here is just perfect!!

sometimes you can go in the future in your dreams, and memories are going to the past.