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If you discovered time-travel?
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I'd flash forward to Wednesday night, find out the Powerball numbers, then tell my present self what they were, then invest my winnings into Apple back in 1997.
I'm still trying to figure the proper tense for telling you that I already voted, but it hasn't happened yet.
Dumb question of the day here.
What makes people believe time travel hasn't already been "discovered" ?
What makes people believe time travel hasn't already been "discovered" ?
Well... it kinda has. If you travel a fraction slower than the speed of light, it is thought you go forward in time, and if you travel a fraction faster you go backwards in time.
Or so I have heard anyway.
no, since then someone go back and change something and I'd never have been born....enter the paradox :0
I'm being serious here.
The only person that would know time travel existed would be the person using the "device". To everybody else things would be as they are/as they currently perceive reality.
The only person that would know time travel existed would be the person using the "device". To everybody else things would be as they are/as they currently perceive reality.
It already has been will be discovered. Any evidence of time travel we have today is a will be relic of the future.
You're thinking Einstein's theory. As you approach the speed of light, time appears to slow down relative to those traveling in our normal speed. For each second that passes for the speed of light traveler a proportionally large amount of time (say a year) passes for the normal speed traveler. So in theory, you can only travel fast forward in time, never back. I think.
Arghh...maybe we have a bunch of Physicist who know what's I'm supposed to be talking about.
They'll explain it better.Anyhow, if I discovered a method of time travel, I'd go forward to the point where time travel tech is at its peak. I'd dump my old clunker time machine for a top of the line TARDIS with with the go faster stripes.
This thread is only hypothetical, but I don't think time travel to the past will ever be possible. I read this story by Stephen Hawking and he said that time travel to the past is impossible because of Radiation Feedback. He compares it to a concert set up. Where when the speaker noise goes through the microphone the stereo would be destroyed. So this same thing would happen to your time machine and destroy it before it could be used.
True. And if someone came up to one of us and said "I invented time travel, I'm from the future" we would think they're just screwed up in the head.
It already has been will be discovered. Any evidence of time travel we have today is a will be relic of the future.
You're thinking Einstein's theory. As you approach the speed of light, time appears to slow down relative to those traveling in our normal speed. For each second that passes for the speed of light traveler a proportionally large amount of time (say a year) passes for the normal speed traveler. So in theory, you can only travel fast forward in time, never back. I think.
Arghh...maybe we have a bunch of Physicist who know what's I'm supposed to be talking about.
Anyhow, if I discovered a method of time travel, I'd go forward to the point where time travel tech is at its peak. I'd dump my old clunker time machine for a top of the line TARDIS with with the go faster stripes.
I think what you are trying to get at here is the concept of time dilation where the faster one goes the slower time goes but time itself is always going forward in any case just at different rates at different speeds this one is referred to as the "Twin Paradox" having a lot to do with some of Einsteins theory of relativity. Here's a good link from PBS and Nova on the matter: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/hotsciencetwin/
First of all, it is an INVENTION and not a discovery.
There are SO many variables that makes it practically impossible to accommodate such an invention.
Until unless someone could record each and every moment everywhere AND recreate it the exact same way, time travel is a truck load of junk for morons to drool around not able to limit imagination seep out of a practical boundary asking 'what ifs' and 'what coulds'.
There are SO many variables that makes it practically impossible to accommodate such an invention.
Until unless someone could record each and every moment everywhere AND recreate it the exact same way, time travel is a truck load of junk for morons to drool around not able to limit imagination seep out of a practical boundary asking 'what ifs' and 'what coulds'.
I always laughed at the static time machine in the HG Wells film sitting in the same room whilst it travelled back and forward in time. If it was truly static it would be off-world within a few seconds and moving forward 20 years would see the entire Solar System disappear off into the distance
I would travel through time (and maybe space if it's advanced enough) and be known as the Doctor.