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

But... If you could go forward in time it'd,say, unlock the whole of the future, so everything would of happened, which means that someone probably did something wrong as so many people had gone into the future. That wrong thing would change the past. But so far the past (our present) hasn't massively changed and it won't because then it would of already happened. Sorry, makes sense in my head!

[QUOTE=BrickInHead;21721201]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)[/QUOTE] Why not just be polite and tell him what it is? [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole[/url]

[QUOTE=Simples;21721227]But... If you could go forward in time it'd,say, unlock the whole of the future, so everything would of happened, which means that someone probably did something wrong as so many people had gone into the future. That wrong thing would change the past. But so far the past (our present) hasn't massively changed and it won't because then it would of already happened. Sorry, makes sense in my head![/QUOTE] What the fuck did I just read.

Time in relative right?

[QUOTE=Yuri_V;21720097]What's up with Stephen Hawking lately? First he discusses aliens now this. Doesn't compute.[/QUOTE] He knows he's going to die soon so he made the documentary. I predict July.

[QUOTE=Super_Poo;21721382]Time in relative right?[/QUOTE] Yup. That's pretty much it if the general relativity theory is correct.

FYI, this is time travel in the same sense that you are traveling through time right now, making that XKCD comic absolutely relevant. What Hawking said is that time would seem like it slowed down to people traveling near-lightspeed, allowing people to live much longer than usual.

[QUOTE=RBM11;21721404]He knows he's going to die soon so he made the documentary. I predict July.[/QUOTE] I don't think he'll die anytime soon, but he's quite old. Born 1942.

[QUOTE=BrickInHead;21721201]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)[/QUOTE] It's effectively a fucking hole in space time, and I didn't say they don't affect time, I said good luck trying to get one inside a ship and keeping the ship intact.

[QUOTE=Scope0;21719641]A truly interesting thought. I doubt we could ever pull off the example Hawking proposed.[/QUOTE] "I doubt we could ever fly in the sky" -Medieval Scientist

[QUOTE=bravehat;21721587]It's effectively a fucking hole in space time, and I didn't say they don't affect time, I said good luck trying to get one inside a ship and keeping the ship intact.[/QUOTE] Black hole is not a hole. Black hole is an object dense enough so that the escape velocity from it's surface is greater than the speed of light.

[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: [editline]09:03PM[/editline] That's what the electroplasmopozitrorgasmo shield generators are for, dummy.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;21718963]No, because the light is going faster than you, still, and the difference between your velocities is amplified by the time slowdown. Light always looks like it's going the same speed relative to you.[/QUOTE] So we could actually be travelling at light speed right now from another view, but we don't notice? Oh god this is awesome

[QUOTE=bravehat;21721131]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] Actually can be arranged: [url]http://www.universetoday.com/2009/11/19/black-hole-drive-could-power-future-starships/[/url] It was on Wikipedia, can't find it now.

I wish Max Tegmark was in the series, that guys so awesome. You should all watch [B]Horizon: Who's afraid of a big black hole[/B]. It was one of the, if not the most fascinating documentary I've ever seen.

Interesting proposal indeed. But what if it was all one big trick of the mind, where time SEEMS to be going slower for you, and everything goes about at its daily pace as life would on a starship, but in fact, you're aging as you would back on earth. I'm probably :downs: but it's just a thought I had while reading the thread. Also, the first thing I tried to do when I saw the picture in the OP was to try and make that face. :saddowns:

[QUOTE=UberEmo;21720043]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] Well that's amusing that it's in FTL(or in this case near light speed) the whole time.

We'll never be able to time travel. That's a hard fact. What I DO THINK WE CAN DO is move up in time we usually think about time as moving from x------------------x never y | | | x-----------------x and from there who knows. We could go back in time from that frozen point/whatever and re see the events that happened.

[QUOTE=Predat0r;21725735]We'll never be able to time travel. That's a hard fact. What I DO THINK WE CAN DO is move up in time we usually think about time as moving from x------------------x never y | | | x-----------------x and from there who knows. We could go back in time from that frozen point/whatever and re see the events that happened.[/QUOTE] No Time is a dimension. A dimension has 2 directions.

[QUOTE=bravehat;21721587]It's effectively a fucking hole in space time, and I didn't say they don't affect time, I said good luck trying to get one inside a ship and keeping the ship intact.[/QUOTE] The Romulans could do it. :colbert:

[quote=johnnymo1;21726125]no time is a dimension. A dimension has 2 directions.[/quote] says the nonbeliever

[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] It's pretty amazing. It means that if we ever send a space ship any meaningful distance away from Earth, the people on Earth will never know if the ship made it to its destination

This isn't exactly time travel, just having time appear to be much slower around you. It makes perfect sense; the question is how scientists could develop a vehicle that could reach such speeds. That would probably take many centuries at least.

No matter what anyone says. Steven hawkings is smarter then anyone in this community. No reason to even argue. Posting back at his theory is invalid.

Hawking backwards is Gnikwah Gnikwah is known to be the President of Space

I like his underbite

[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] When that hits 465328y67984279mph, you're going to see some serious shit.

[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;21718698]The calculation is wrong. At 98% of c, 1 day isn't 1 year on earth.[/QUOTE] Lol, I love all the disagrees I got for this. [IMG]http://i43.tinypic.com/11ki5w7.gif[/IMG] I know more about physics than you, Facepunch. Deal with it. [editline]12:00AM[/editline] [QUOTE=Swebonny;21719520]Yea, it is very very wrong. The change factor is only 5, which means that 1 day is equal to 5 days.[/QUOTE] So yeah, that.

Whoever edited that article needs to find a new job. There were at least three typos at the end.

[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;21728123]Lol, I love all the disagrees I got for this. [IMG]http://i43.tinypic.com/11ki5w7.gif[/IMG] I know more about physics than you, Facepunch. Deal with it. [editline]12:00AM[/editline] So yeah, that.[/QUOTE] Wow 20 disagrees, no wonder the majority of the science threads here are psuedoscientific. FP I am disappointed, didn't you all have an IQ of 160 and going to attend MIT.