Hawking backs possibility for humans to travel millions of years into the future - Polidicks

[QUOTE=BurnEmDown;21718546]So is it back to the future rules, or terminator rules?[/QUOTE] Back to the future rules. And preferably no contact with anyone you knew before the flight.

What if they have a small black hole in the ship so time slows down there?

[QUOTE=TheForeigner;21719559]What if they have a small black hole in the ship so time slows down there?[/QUOTE] :downs:

A truly interesting thought. I doubt we could ever pull off the example Hawking proposed.

[QUOTE=TheForeigner;21719559]What if they have a small black hole in the ship so time slows down there?[/QUOTE] ...cause there is absolutely no issue with having a black hole, a literal hole in space, on a ship

[quote]The famous astrophysicist, [b]speaking[/b] in a new documentary,[/quote] Sad, but needed said.

[QUOTE=animephreak135;21718786]So this means that we can't travel the galaxy at near-speed-of-light speeds without traveling forwards in time. I'm seeing some serious limitations for the human race here.[/QUOTE] You're not moving forwards in time, it's just that time goes at a slower rate inside the ship. A trip to the Galactic Core would take, say, 20 years for the crew, but 25,000 for the rest of the observable universe.

I still want to go back in time. Stupid sciene. :colbert:

[QUOTE=Super_Poo;21719825]I still want to go back in time. Stupid sciene. :colbert:[/QUOTE] Didn't someone say it was possible to stabilize a wormhole using exotic matter or something?

So basically, we send a ship out for a year to explore, if 1 day on the ship if 1 year on earth, they come back a year later, and its approximately 365 years later? Shit.

[QUOTE=BurnEmDown;21718546]So is it back to the future rules, or [b]terminator rules?[/b][/QUOTE] In between the four movies and the TV show, the "time rules" that the Terminator series conscribe to have been changed, disregarded and discarded in favor of easy writing so many times, I stopped giving a shit a long time ago.

What's up with Stephen Hawking lately? First he discusses aliens now this. Doesn't compute.

[QUOTE=Yuri_V;21720097]What's up with Stephen Hawking lately? First he discusses aliens now this. Doesn't compute.[/QUOTE] Why would it not compute [editline]04:33PM[/editline] Why would he be called a crank for this, this is the least controversial time travel proposal ever.

What is the deivative of time?

[QUOTE=Yuri_V;21720097]What's up with Stephen Hawking lately? First he discusses aliens now this. Doesn't compute.[/QUOTE] It's that new series. Good thing though, the world needs more people like Hawking (Not people with ALS, but popularizers of science).

Flying at near the speed of light you'd be going ZOOOM and it'd seem like everything is dandy. Windows probably shining with pure whiteness or maybe even pure blackness I don't know I'm not a physicist. But what about avoiding objects? Going 465328y67984279 (not correct, just bare with me) miles a second your guaranteed to hit a lot of shit. Then you reach your destination and choose to turn around. If there was nothing in your path before, there must be by then.

To the future we go!

[QUOTE=Jurikuer;21720310]Flying at near the speed of light you'd be going ZOOOM and it'd seem like everything is dandy. Windows probably shining with pure whiteness or maybe even pure blackness I don't know I'm not a physicist. But what about avoiding objects? Going 465328y67984279 (not correct, just bare with me) miles a second your guaranteed to hit a lot of shit. Then you reach your destination and choose to turn around. If there was nothing in your path before, there must be by then.[/QUOTE] Actually it would look purple. We know that thanks to :science:

[QUOTE=marcin1337;21720152]What is the deivative of time?[/QUOTE] You could do something like dt1/dt2 where each one is time with respect to a different object's frame of reference

[QUOTE=animephreak135;21718786]So this means that we can't travel the galaxy at near-speed-of-light speeds without traveling forwards in time. I'm seeing some serious limitations for the human race here.[/QUOTE] Ender's Game taught me that.

[QUOTE=Jurikuer;21720310]Flying at near the speed of light you'd be going ZOOOM and it'd seem like everything is dandy. Windows probably shining with pure whiteness or maybe even pure blackness I don't know I'm not a physicist. But what about avoiding objects? Going 465328y67984279 (not correct, just bare with me) miles a second your guaranteed to hit a lot of shit. Then you reach your destination and choose to turn around. If there was nothing in your path before, there must be by then.[/QUOTE] What the fuck did I just read?

[QUOTE=bravehat;21720422]What the fuck did I just read?[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=bravehat;21720422]What the fuck did I just read?[/QUOTE] He says that if you move too fast all stars superimpose into one big bright thingee, and you hit lots of shit, and if you were lucky enough not to hit anything on the way, you will hit something on the way back because nobody can be that lucky.

[img]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/kayak.png[/img]

Oh god, we are accelerating protons in LHC to like 0.9999~ of speed of light. Poor protons must be confused as fuck by traveling through the time to the future :ohdear: [editline]09:03PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Jurikuer;21720310]Flying at near the speed of light you'd be going ZOOOM and it'd seem like everything is dandy. Windows probably shining with pure whiteness or maybe even pure blackness I don't know I'm not a physicist. But what about avoiding objects? Going 465328y67984279 (not correct, just bare with me) miles a second your guaranteed to hit a lot of shit. Then you reach your destination and choose to turn around. If there was nothing in your path before, there must be by then.[/QUOTE] That's what the electroplasmopozitrorgasmo shield generators are for, dummy.

[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;21720642]Oh god, we are accelerating protons in LHC to like 0.9999~ of speed of light. Poor protons must be confused as fuck by traveling through the time to the future :ohdear:[/QUOTE] There's more confusing stuff happening to protons than some time-travel. Like high-isotope radioactive Iron protons splitting up into a neutron (which is larger) and a positron (which doesn't even make sense), or disappearing and reappearing somewhere else. Quantum mechanics, I tell you. "If you think you understand Quantum theory, you don't understand quantum theory." ~ Richard Feynman

[QUOTE=Eudoxia;21720539]He says that if you move too fast all stars superimpose into one big bright thingee, and you hit lots of shit, and if you were lucky enough not to hit anything on the way, you will hit something on the way back because nobody can be that lucky.[/QUOTE] Oh thanks. Use the shield the Valkyrie is planned to use, a shield of metal droplets fired out ahead of the ship and caught in a strong magnetic field so the shield is constantly replenished and recycled.

[QUOTE=bravehat;21719647]...cause there is absolutely no issue with having a black hole, a literal hole in space, on a ship[/QUOTE] in attempting to undermine his intelligence you made yourself look like an idiot gj

[QUOTE=BrickInHead;21721030]in attempting to undermine his intelligence you made yourself look like an idiot gj[/QUOTE] I'm sorry no matter how dumb I look, It can't ever match or beat that. How does one exactly get a black hole onto a ship, without said ship, getting atomically eviscerated?

[QUOTE=bravehat;21721131]I'm sorry no matter how dumb I look, It can't ever match or beat that.[/QUOTE] i'd say the concept that a black hole is an actual hole is far more retarded than the thought that it somehow affects time (considering they do)