• My theory on why Time Travel is impossible.
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[QUOTE=killover;29710483]Harry Potter isn't real.[/QUOTE] Yes, let's ignore the point I was making and instead imply that I was insisting that Harry Potter is real. I'll also ignore the content of your post and skip straight to the fact that your avatar has a .gif from a cartoon meant for little girls.
[QUOTE=TEAMGiant;29709507] 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. [/QUOTE] I agree that matter "jumping" from one time slot to another is impossible.
you don't know what "theory" means
[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] you are only seeing light particles. the "event' of the craft being built has occurred. You can only view previous moments if you are intercepted past generated light (or a past generated sensory medium) A lot of people get this confused and say that going at the speed of light makes you go back in time. If going in circles at the speed of light was all that was required for "bending" or "warping" time then why the hell is my right arm still attached to my torso (keep in mind, they're both made of pentillions of electrons spinning at different speeds, all pretty fucking close to the speed of light)
Most theories of time travel, At least Philosophical ones which aren't looking for practical plausibility just logical possibility rely on concepts of time which are slightly different than what one would normally or intuitively think.
In a sense, travel into the future is possible by traveling at a speed that allows time for you to pass slower, hense you have entered the future younger than you otherwise would have. There's no duplicate timelines or any of that shit exist. There is only one "time" and that's the gradual change and movement of matter and varying speeds.
Time is only relative to the observer. Future and past exist all around us. We see the past, as light isn't instant. Thus, we live in the future. :psyduck: [sp]The end is obviously not meant to be valid[/sp] [editline]8th May 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Axiomatic;29711005]In a sense, travel into the future is possible by traveling at a speed that allows time for you to pass slower, hense you have entered the future younger than you otherwise would have. There's no duplicate timelines or any of that shit exist. There is only one "time" and that's the gradual change and movement of matter and varying speeds.[/QUOTE] What you're trying to say is that there's no such thing as absolute time, and that it's all relative to everyone independently... yes?
woah i just thought of something else since light can convey virtual time, if i take a picture of my butt before i shaved a face in to it and viewed it on the computer AFTER i shaved a face in to it, am i not looking in to the past? man
[QUOTE=Red Toaster;29710556]you don't know what "theory" means[/QUOTE] Gravity is a theory. whoops automerge fail [editline]8th May 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Meteos King;29711176]woah i just thought of something else since light can convey virtual time, if i take a picture of my butt before i shaved it and viewed it on the computer AFTER i shaved it, am i not looking in to the past? man[/QUOTE] You're doing it wrong.
[QUOTE=Red Toaster;29710556]you don't know what "theory" means[/QUOTE] Oh hey Red Toaster where have you been for the past year?
I would have thought for sure that those who have mentioned Harry Potter would have been referring to the time-turner Hermione uses in HP and The Prisoner of Azkaban. That's where my theories (hypotheses) on time-travel lie: Even if you could go back to the past, you wouldn't be able to change anything, because you already would/wouldn't have done so. I.e. you must think of time as a line, and if you go back to do something in the past, you must realize that whatever you did back then already occurred.
We need a megathread on time travel.
[img]http://pressthebuttons.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/delorean.jpg[/img] I rest my case.
[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] sir, please kill yourself now [QUOTE=Meteos King;29710248] woah i just thought of something else since light can convey virtual time, if i take a picture of my butt before i shaved a face in to it and viewed it on the computer AFTER i shaved a face in to it, am i not looking in to the past? man [/QUOTE] holy shit i just saw this one. are you a troll? or just fucking retarded?
[QUOTE=redwall119;29712854]sir, please kill yourself now holy shit i just saw this one. are you a troll? or just fucking retarded?[/QUOTE] Man pretty harsh there.
hes either a troll or a dumb fuck, he was gonna get it one way or the other
Most of the people here don't know nearly enough about physics to even begin discussing time travel, including myself. For example the law that matter cannot be created nor destroyed is kind of wrong, kind of, as its just a shortened version. Matter and energy can be converted into eachother, as matter is a form of energy. Thats where that little formula E=MC^2 comes in. The law we're speaking of is actually saying that the total energy in an isolated system remains constant. An example of this is atoms, as the binding energy that holds atoms together is actually taken away from the mass of the overall atom. That is, if you were to add the mass together of the neutrons and the protons, and then actually measure the mass of the atom, the calculated mass would be higher, however if you convert the binding energy to its equivalent mass and add it with the measured mass it will equal the calculated mass.
"Rate me late if you've heard this before, although [b]I just thought of this.[/b]" You should have spent more time researching and questioning your theories. I personally believe nothing is impossible. It may be 10, 50 or 1000 years till we even get as close as to discovering something linked closely to time travel.
Time Dilation (for some of you who think its a common misconception when really you are the ones who are wrong): A nice little bite of info from Carl Sagan: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Vpu6yJPRVQ[/media] Longish lectures from Berkeley that doesn't include as much, if any, mathematics and is easier to understand than the Stanford lectures: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNgzqpKZwhE[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf0Wrgairfw&feature=relmfu[/media] Long as fuck lectures from Stanford that include mathematics but really informative if you can understand it: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbmf0bB38h0[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8UrYIZhm60[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR7fWF_qBZI[/media]
[QUOTE=SkinkYEA;29709950]Im pretty sure you can go forward, but not backwards in time. But then again I know nothing about this subject[/QUOTE] First one yes, latter one is not yet show but there exists no "law" yet which forbids that type of timetravel. In fact, e.g. General Relativity is filled with tons of different ways for time-travel. Back and forth.
Science counters your theory.
I think it would be best if you didn't post any more threads.
According to what my physics teacher taught me years ago to achieve time travel to the future one must step out of time (imagine it as a giant time line) therefore time has no effect on them, then they will step back into time when the desired year has arrived. So basically it's like dying and then coming back to life int he future but your body won't be left on Earth.
Is time tangible?
[QUOTE=TheGronk;29711320]We need a megathread on time travel.[/QUOTE] Why exactly? All it will consist of is why we can't and crazy theories that try to see if we can.
I made this post in the past.
[QUOTE=aVoN;29713867]First one yes, latter one is not yet show but there exists no "law" yet which forbids that type of timetravel. In fact, e.g. General Relativity is filled with tons of different ways for time-travel. Back and forth.[/QUOTE] I thought that four-vectors could only have positive time/velocity components (making backwards time travel and ftl travel impossible)
You're wrong OP, I am from the year 2032.
What if all our actions and everything is "recorded" and to get back in time we just need to spin the record back. Overall time travel is a huge mindfuck and discussing it on a gaming forum will not really achieve anything.
Is time travel invented yet? nope.
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