• My theory on why Time Travel is impossible.
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Rate me late if you've heard this before, although I just thought of this. Ok, so first, this theory only holds truth if you believe that any instance of time in the future does not exist until it is the present in which case its not the future anymore. Basically there is no such thing as the future because it will never actually be the future and reality exists only in the present. That said, you can obviously never travel forward through time to a place that doesn't exist. So what about traveling back in time? Well If the future does not exist at this instant in time then there would be no way for someone to go back in time because they would then be coming from a place that does not exist according to the past. I'm just wondering if anyone thinks this is logical or if it holds any validity. On a side note this makes me wonder if the concept of time is simply just something humans came up with along their little path through life. Consider this: there is no past or present and "time" is merely a word pinned to an intangible concept created for whatever sake humans saw fit. There is only... and this is where I begin to feel restricted by human language because the only terms I can use are ones like "now" or "present" both of which address or relate to "time" in some way. But Im just suggesting the only thing thats real is right now and once that instance passes it does not exist. We've found ways to capture instances with video recording or cameras allowing us to see the past and leading us to believe that its real. Then again those are human creations and we are only influenced by ourselves and whatever mistakes we may have made when interpreting our environment. Anywaays. Thoughts? Comments?
You are not a scientist, you do not know what you're talking about
What about multiverse theory
In an parallel universe, there is only the future.
it is possible to speed up and slow down time, and it has been done [editline]8th May 2011[/editline] that's probably as far as we'll ever get w/ time travel though
There's a difference between a hypotheses (An idea) and a theory (An internally and externally consistent model of the workings of the universe in all its glory).
Apparently I'm an idiot. I'll stop trying.
We can travel back in time with our imaginations :v:
In my defense I haven't slept in 3 days
I don't think Time Travel to the future is possible mainly because I think that predestination is bullshit. We make our own lives.
Predestination makes perfect sense. The universe abides by certain laws, even your brain which is just a bunch of electrical pulses, and thus these laws denote what is happening law and what will happen in the future.
Time travel is possible. In fact, you're doing it right now.
Im pretty sure you can go forward, but not backwards in time. But then again I know nothing about this subject
i like to think there are infinite alternate universes i'd like to think that there is that way when i envision myself or other people dying i can imagine that it happened in another universe
[QUOTE=Athena;29709917]Time travel is possible. In fact, you're doing it right now.[/QUOTE] I'm going into the future right now. [editline]9th May 2011[/editline] I'm in the future now.
I actually think I know the answer of the paradox: "If you are driving and go into your house and enter a time machine, and go back in time before where you're driving, as you open the door to enter the house, you shoot yourself" who shot who. [B] Talking out of the ass[/B] What happened is that as soon as you time-travelled you already changed the time-line due to the matter being where it isn't, thus it duplicates the time-line adding everything that's in there but you(1) are removed forever from timeline(1) when you enter timeline(2) yet you(2) still exists and thus is a different entity all together, thus when you(1) shoots you(2) you therefore have technically shot yourself, but due to entering timeline(2) you are not affected at all, but cannot therefore travel back to timeline(1) due to the duplication process, If you tried to timetravel back to the present then you are therefore in timeline(3) :psyduck:
[QUOTE=The_J_Hat;29709829]I don't think Time Travel to the future is possible mainly because I think that predestination is bullshit. We make our own lives.[/QUOTE] Here's the thing with the whole "predestination" business. If anyone has read the Harry Potter books its explained perfectly. (IMO) Yes, our lives are predetermined and the future exists, but you still have free will. For example, let's say that tomorrow (for whatever reason) you are going to have to decide to either kill your best friend or yourself. Let's also say you are destined to kill yourself as a result of that decision (thereby making the accessible future one where you kill yourself). No, this does not mean you had no choice. You kill yourself because you had your own reasons for sparing your friend etc., NOT because it was predetermined. You could always have killed your friend, but you chose not to for your own reasons. You killed yourself on your own whim, the future had nothing to do with that.
i like to think that we invented time travel went back in time and created viruses because viruses are so robotic looking and they're not alive and i like to think they're little machines
Time travel makes my head hurt.
[QUOTE=ShadowSocks8;29710025]Here's the thing with the whole "predestination" business. If anyone has read the Harry Potter books its explained perfectly. (IMO) Yes, our lives are predetermined and the future exists, but you still have free will. For example, let's say that tomorrow (for whatever reason) you are going to have to decide to either kill your best friend or yourself. Let's also say you are destined to kill yourself as a result of that decision (thereby making the accessible future one where you kill yourself). No, this does not mean you had no choice. You kill yourself because you had your own reasons for sparing your friend etc., NOT because it was predetermined. You could always have killed your friend, but you chose not to for your own reasons. You killed yourself on your own whim, the future had nothing to do with that.[/QUOTE] Use Harry Potter as a reference. Seems legit.
[QUOTE=TEAMGiant;29710115]Use Harry Potter as a reference. Seems legit.[/QUOTE] Doesn't make him any less right.
oh man how trippy would it be if you were an astronaut traveling on a spacecraft capable of moving faster than the speed of light, and when you got far away from the earth and turned around you saw the ship you're in being built. dude.
[QUOTE=Meteos King;29710248]oh man how trippy would it be if you were an astronaut traveling on a spacecraft capable of moving faster than the speed of light, and when you got far away from the earth and turned around you saw the ship you're in being built. dude.[/QUOTE] .... :psyduck:
[QUOTE=TEAMGiant;29710115]Use Harry Potter as a reference. Seems legit.[/QUOTE] You misinterpret me. When I referenced HP I was referencing the whole prophecy business when Harry learns that either he is going to kill Voldemort or be killed by him. He thinks that he's being dragged into the situation until Dumbledore explains that it's not because of the prophecy(predestination) that he's going to try and kill Voldemort, it's because he wants to. And the prophecy has nothing to do with his desire for revenge.
if you went back in time and killed your grandma, and then went back to the future, you would still exist, but nobody would know about you, AKA, complete anonymity
[QUOTE=ksenior;29709586]You are not a scientist, you do not know what you're talking about[/QUOTE] When it comes to fucking "TIME" no one is a scientist.
[QUOTE=Mon;29710440]if you went back in time and killed your grandma, and then went back to the future, you would still exist, but nobody would know about you, AKA, complete anonymity[/QUOTE] You couldn't just fuck her before your grandfather had a chance?
I figure traveling to the future is possible but traveling to the past is not. You cant create or destroy matter ( or something..) therefor you couldn't, for example, pick up a rock and go back in time, because now you have brought something into the time period that didn't exist previous, and if it did, it has been duplicated, creating new matter...which can't be done Aka if I get a rock and then go back in time 5 minutes before I took the rock back, I have now duplicated the rock... and myself. HOWEVER, with the future, if I take a rock and go to the future, no matter is created or destroyed. The rock doesn't exist in the future because I had picked it up and gone to the future with it in the first place. Therefore Balance of energy still exists. However i still have no fucking idea how you'd actually get to the future in the first place.
[QUOTE=ShadowSocks8;29710025]Here's the thing with the whole "predestination" business. If anyone has read the Harry Potter books its explained perfectly. (IMO) Yes, our lives are predetermined and the future exists, but you still have free will. For example, let's say that tomorrow (for whatever reason) you are going to have to decide to either kill your best friend or yourself. Let's also say you are destined to kill yourself as a result of that decision (thereby making the accessible future one where you kill yourself). No, this does not mean you had no choice. You kill yourself because you had your own reasons for sparing your friend etc., NOT because it was predetermined. You could always have killed your friend, but you chose not to for your own reasons. You killed yourself on your own whim, the future had nothing to do with that.[/QUOTE] Harry Potter isn't real.
I wouldn't rate you dumb even though this is pretty dumb. It's cool to theorize like this, but posting it was probably a bad idea :v:
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