I've been thinking a lot about time travel recently, and the more I think about it the more I realise how many issues there could be if time travel was invented. One man with access to the ability to travel through time could potentially be the biggest threat to this world. If you are freely able to travel through time, you can evade all laws and all consequences for your actions, if such technology were to fall into the wrong hands the consequences could be terrifying.
Now I know we are a long way from being able to just jump to and from a period of time in the past or future, but with the recent discoveries at CERN it has made people aware that time travel may not be impossible.
What are your thoughts on time travel?
If I could go back in time in some sort of bubble where I could witness events but have literally no impact on them I'd like that. I'd go back and watch tons of stuff. But yeah otherwise there's too many bad things that can happen with backwards time travel thanks to human nature
Everyone would go back in time to Jesus' crucifixion, and suddenly Jerusalem would be filled with tourists from the future.
I'd like time travel kind of like how thrawn explained it. Nobody from the past can see you, you just witness what is happening. History classes would be cool.
You remember all of those assassination attempts on Hitler?
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aside from that, it's pretty[url=http://www.cracked.com/article_18564_6-time-travel-realities-doc-brown-didnt-warn-us-about.html] bad, for you at least.[/url]
Until now it hasn't been proven as possible, so there isn't really much to discuss about
Didn't quantum theory suggest that traveling back in time would just put you on an alternate timeline?
[QUOTE=Rubs10;32457601]Didn't quantum theory suggest that traveling back in time would just put you on an alternate timeline?[/QUOTE]
an alternate but more awesome timeline
Good? Bad? more like not possible.
If you ever go back in time, don't step on anything, even the slightest change can alter the future in ways you can't even imagine.
[QUOTE=Garik;32459427]If you ever go back in time, don't step on anything, even the slightest change can alter the future in ways you can't even imagine.[/QUOTE]
p.sure if I piss in a bush the future isn't going to be destroyed
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For those who have seen that episode, get the joke.
Now jokes aside,
If you travel back in time nothing you do there will even make a difference in the world. For example:
If you go back in time and do some shit, things happen to the world. When you go back, things would be exactly the same to you, since you have been living with things like that your whole life.
Wow that was difficult to describe. I'm off to bed.
[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;32460230]p.sure if I piss in a bush the future isn't going to be destroyed[/QUOTE]
You might just kill an alien bug.
[QUOTE=UnidentifiedFlyingTard;32457676]Good? Bad? more like not possible.[/QUOTE]
Travel to the future is technically. But that's not really any use to anyone. Thanks for clarifying though general buzzkill. I thought it'd be good until I saw the Butterfly Effect which pretty much put me off ever wanting to change my own past.
Traveling back in time could have two effects:
A) An infinite loop in time, joined at the time you left, and the time you went to.
B) An infinite amount of alternate timelines
Either way, shit turns crazy
Time Travel can be used for good, or for evil. Like almost everything in the world. Someone can go back in time and assassinate Hitler, meanwhile, someone can go back in time and kill Gandhi. All things can be used for good and evil.
Words can be used to inspire a movement, meanwhile words can brainwash. Guns can be used against criminals, meanwhile guns can be used to kill innocent people. Everything can be used for good and evil.
I don't see how time travel would even be practical, or possible to start with.
Going backwards in time; You either wind the time back so that there's no contradictions aka paradoxes, OR you create a second set of you who will also go forth in time and go back in time and that's just ridiculous from there on.
Or you go forwards in time.. and I cannot even begin to imagine how you would go about doing so, or with what kind of machinery-technology.
[QUOTE=Gekkosan;32462739]I don't see how time travel would even be practical, or possible to start with.
Going backwards in time; You either wind the time back so that there's no contradictions aka paradoxes, OR you create a second set of you who will also go forth in time and go back in time and that's just ridiculous from there on.
Or you go forwards in time.. and I cannot even begin to imagine how you would go about doing so, or with what kind of machinery-technology.[/QUOTE]Going forward in time has already been done, and is just a result of moving at all. If I remember correctly, astronauts on the ISS effectively traveled forward in time by a very tiny amount.
[QUOTE=ECrownofFire;32462887]Going forward in time has already been done, and is just a result of moving at all. If I remember correctly, astronauts on the ISS effectively traveled forward in time by a very tiny amount.[/QUOTE]
Yeah I bet they did.
Also, result of moving at all? But we do go forwards in time all the time. So I don't see why anyone would want to fuck with that.
[QUOTE=Rubs10;32457601]Didn't quantum theory suggest that traveling back in time would just put you on an alternate timeline?[/QUOTE]
that's one of the interpretations, the jury is still out
I highly doubt there's a single time travel scenario that results in something that benefits the time traveler. It's simply impossible to determine the actual course of events that will unfold by changing an element of the past, the ramifications as dictated by chaos would simply be too tremendous to be accurately predicted.
I've always believed traveling back in time split the timeline, the timeline you originally came from would remain unchanged.
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Solves some of those paradoxes.
I just promised to myself that if we have time travel in 30 years time I will travel back to myself at this moment in time to tell myself that we have time travel in the future.
Well, no older version of me has arrived so I guess we wont be time travelling in 30 years. Or maybe we do have time travel in the future but I'm probably not allowed to time travel.
[QUOTE=Yumyumbublegum;32465119]I've always believed traveling back in time split the timeline, the timeline you originally came from would remain unchanged.
[editline]24th September 2011[/editline]
Solves some of those paradoxes.[/QUOTE]
I uhh.. I don't believe that you can have another cosmos identical to ours once you just successfully timetravelled back in time. It sounds weird, like as if you could then have infinite amount of different timelines or something.
Actually I'm out, time travel is kind of bullshit. The only kinda time travel we are going to do is travel against time.
Time travel is pretty obviously a bad thing, there is basically no way that it wouldn't be abused by someone eventually.
A time travel thread and not a single Doctor Who reference?
I prolly would go OCD about every error I ever made and that would lead to other errors.... I think you get the idea.
As long as there is a way, in which I cannot be seen, nor people can physically touch me. I'd love to see some historic events. Or even minor ones, like how my parents looked/acted when they were young. Or watching my younger self in elementary or something
[QUOTE=Aperture fan;32465593]A time travel thread and not a single Doctor Who reference?[/QUOTE]
This is a serious debate thread, sir.
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