Professor Predicts Human Time Travel This Century

Check this out, guys and gals.

http://www.physorg.com/news63371210.html

Interesting. Well, they have already clearly showed in "particle accelerators", particles traveling into the future and into the past and doing both at the same time. They have also showed the same particle occupying two different spaces at the same time.

Time travel is possible...just not under our current understanding of the universe...maybe I should say that "macro" time travel on large time tables is not possible currently. (I'm talking-objects traveling many years into the past/future.)

Scientific growth is exponential but I would still doubt a concept like time travel being achieved by the time 2100 rolls around. Particles are one thing, safe human transport is another.

quackery-
1. future time travel is already relatively possible via time dilation
2. paradoxes are theoretically impossible and anything that must happen will happen.
3. nothing with a mass greater than or equal to zero can travel back in time.

Originally posted by dadudemon
Interesting. Well, they have already clearly showed in "particle accelerators", particles traveling into the future and into the past and doing both at the same time. They have also showed the same particle occupying two different spaces at the same time.

Time travel is possible...just not under our current understanding of the universe...maybe I should say that "macro" time travel on large time tables is not possible currently. (I'm talking-objects traveling many years into the past/future.)

For real! Bloody hell!

yay, another prediction that no one acknowledges.

Wow, that article was published over a year ago. Anything happened with this theory since then?

Ron Mallett has had to go back on almost everything in this article over the last eigteen months. He can't use slowed light, he needs exotic matter etc, etc. Shame really. Even his maths got proved wrong by Stephen Hawking of all people.

Originally posted by Zebedee
Ron Mallett has had to go back on almost everything in this article over the last eigteen months. He can't use slowed light, he needs exotic matter etc, etc. Shame really. Even his maths got proved wrong by Stephen Hawking of all people.

Interesting...not a lot of people know that Stephen Hawking isn't thought as highly of by his peers in the physics world as the rest of the world knows him...You study astrophysics much?

I don't think time travel is possible, picture this: you go back in time and somehow cause yourself to have never been born, but if you were never born then you wouldn't have been able to go back in time to stop yourself from being born. It makes no sense.

Everytime I sit on a bar stool...I go back in time. I take a shot of whiskey and think about when my ex-fiance was still in my arms....and life was good. So, if you want the ingrediants to a good time machine...take a bar stool and add whiskey....instant time travel.

In my opinion, time travel is unlikely to happen, and if it does it will not effect our "timeline."

Imagine there is a time machine and someone goes back to tweak things so that they would become rulers of the earth or something along those lines. If something like that were possible, the people living in this world would realize it (unless of course Bill Gates really escaped through a time machine to make money, which is unlikely since there are people who remember him as a child). More or less, if someone had timne travelled, we would somehow have been affected by it already (unless they travelled to a future time, such as 2050)

The only way someone in this day and age could be a time traveler would be
1) they seem to not have a childhood
2) they are suddenly rich or powerful, having nothing beforehand

OR

Someone has travelled, but they went onto an alternate timeline existing with us, that we have no means of visiting (however this would suggest that there is a copy of everyone somewhere in an alternate universe).

Anyway, all in all, time travel is unlikely unless:
a) the person has kept incognito and not changed anything drastically
b) the person isn't someone from livign memory or when records can't be validated (Jesus, King Tut?)
c) it is very heavily controlled by the government and is only used to for testing (even then it would be very risky)
d) Some unknown traveller has gone from the ditant future to his past, although still our future, which we eventually will catch up too and find that we have a new dicatator.

Seriously, I'd go back & save 2Pac. No sarcasm, I love that guy (no homo).

That should be rather difficult seeing as time doesn´t exist as a thing you can go back in.

Einsteins commetn about not being able to exceed the speed of light was wrong, they have sped neutrinos in excess of this speed and they didn´t suddenly go back in time to where they wee before they left.

Another description for scientists is "fantasy dreamers"

Originally posted by allofyousuckkk
In my opinion, time travel is unlikely to happen, and if it does it will not effect our "timeline."

Imagine there is a time machine and someone goes back to tweak things so that they would become rulers of the earth or something along those lines. If something like that were possible, the people living in this world would realize it (unless of course Bill Gates really escaped through a time machine to make money, which is unlikely since there are people who remember him as a child). More or less, if someone had timne travelled, we would somehow have been affected by it already (unless they travelled to a future time, such as 2050)

The only way someone in this day and age could be a time traveler would be
1) they seem to not have a childhood
2) they are suddenly rich or powerful, having nothing beforehand

OR

Someone has travelled, but they went onto an alternate timeline existing with us, that we have no means of visiting (however this would suggest that there is a copy of everyone somewhere in an alternate universe).

Anyway, all in all, time travel is unlikely unless:
a) the person has kept incognito and not changed anything drastically
b) the person isn't someone from livign memory or when records can't be validated (Jesus, King Tut?)
c) it is very heavily controlled by the government and is only used to for testing (even then it would be very risky)
d) Some unknown traveller has gone from the ditant future to his past, although still our future, which we eventually will catch up too and find that we have a new dicatator.

One thing that the guy said who wanted to build the machine was that you could travel in the past before the time machine was created, but im sure they'll find away.

One thing he said was that once the machine was made people in the future would send messages back.

Originally posted by dadudemon
Interesting...not a lot of people know that Stephen Hawking isn't thought as highly of by his peers in the physics world as the rest of the world knows him...You study astrophysics much?

I certainly wouldn't claim to be an expert on any aspect of Physics. I do buy New Scientist and Nature sometimes though.

Originally posted by dadudemon
Interesting...not a lot of people know that Stephen Hawking isn't thought as highly of by his peers in the physics world as the rest of the world knows him...You study astrophysics much?

Actually I did. I think everyone makes a big deal because hes in a wheelchair.

Originally posted by charlemagne9746
Everytime I sit on a bar stool...I go back in time. I take a shot of whiskey and think about when my ex-fiance was still in my arms....and life was good. So, if you want the ingrediants to a good time machine...take a bar stool and add whiskey....instant time travel.

Do you chew any tabacco while your at it?

Stephen Hawking´s books are interesting, but nevertheless fantasy.

Thats the problem, philosophers who are scientists comments are often taken as fact just because they are professors or have some degree.

I think time travel is dangerous.

Imagine making a travel to the times of Nazi Germany and imagine what any scientist with such opinions would do. Just like cloning. You can easily take the DNA of of one and have him come back to life.

Originally posted by JacopeX
I think time travel is dangerous.

Imagine making a travel to the times of Nazi Germany and imagine what any scientist with such opinions would do. Just like cloning. You can easily take the DNA of of one and have him come back to life.

As long as the possibility of going back to the 50's and fawking Betty Page exist... who cares about the Nazis?