Einstein's theory basically suggests that time can be bent or warped in such a way as to turn back on itself, suggesting that the right gismo could go through such a warp and come out in the future or past - but end up when and where?
Originally posted by Marine5711: Anything is possible . It's the probability factor that gets ya.
The probability factor could be just as likely as the possibility. The truth is the human brain has not evolved to the point where it can even begin to comprehend our surroundings The universe,or our roll in the bigger picture. When we consider seeing the light from stars that have burnt out millions of years ago traveling at 186K MPH or children being born who have extraordinary talents or that can talk foreign languages without ever being taught. Do we ever leave or just change form when we die? Is it all just molecular energy and dimensions? Energy as we know it cant be destroyed only transformed. If thats true it could explain the reason for the gifted births due to the molecular tranformation and new life from energy? Way to deep for me but fun to speculate on. Einstiens Genuis in mathmatics was found to be due to shallower crevises in the brain path allowing the neurons to travel faster in the area of the math skills portion of the brain.
Time travel in both directions may be possible. Einstein played with mindgames and why not here.
We can travel into the future, in fact we are masters of it, if we believe in time. Two blackholes called Gemenoid Black holes, each with their own opposite polarity, if separated, and one side of the black hole is accelerated to the speed of light.
The two black holes (worm holes) then exist in the same space but at different times. Then we could go back and forth at will, given we could survive the trip.
Now, there has been this poster, claiming he is from 2036 named John Titor. He claimed ot have in his possession a time machine, went back in time to retrieve an IBM 5100, went forward in time to 2000 to visit his young self and then presumbably back to the future (great name for a film).
The eerie thing is that his physics has been proven over the past three years or so, if the postings actually were authored in 2000.
His history, though, is erroneous. We should have been in a civil war by now.
Here's the escape clause. Let's say you go back in time. According to quantum mechanics when going into the future (Back to the Future), you would be in a parallel time line. You would never be able to go back home, to the same reality again.
My physics professor used to say that time travel was possible only into the future, not the past, because the past has already happened. But hes an ex-hippie. Drugs can F ya up.
My physics professor used to say that time travel was possible only into the future, not the past, because the past has already happened. But hes an ex-hippie. Drugs can F ya up.
Hey Korn! You're talking 'bout my generation! Sounds like a song. But WHO did it?
If time travel were possible wouldn't we have visitors from the future? Besides Devo and Boy George...
It's proven that as you approach the speed of light, time slows down. So, I get in a ship and travel at light speed for a month. When I land I find that a year has passed. I have time traveled 11 months into the future. It not only is possible, it's a proven fact. Note Times used not ment to be accurate, just to show the point.
Some years ago, in an effort to prove/disprove the theory. NASA had 2 atomic clocks that were sync'd togeather. One they placed on the shuttle and it zoomed around the earth, at thousands of miles an hour for a period of time. Upon returning to earth, the 2 clocks were not in sync any more. The one that went into space laged the one that stayed on earth, proving that going fast alters time.
I'd say that time travel is possible. But, a lot of people would abuse it. A good example is in the movie 'Back to the Future2'. It should just be for observation and research.
The Star Trek Original Series 'All our yesterdays', the second last episode, has Spock having gone back in time thousands of years. He isn't unemotional and is quite hostile. That is because it was before Vulcans became unemotional. So, with reincarnation, it can be that when going back in time the person's consciousness would go back to how it was then.
A mind is like a parachute - it works best when open
I downloaded the intruction do accomplish forward time travel ...
Ready? Wait for it ... wait for it.
THERE! I just went forward in time 4 seconds
A few months ago I closed my eyes while time traveling after a few drinks and I was told by myself in the future that there will soon be two Tuesdays in a week to accomodate everyones busy schedules
Originally posted by shockey: It's proven that as you approach the speed of light, time slows down. So, I get in a ship and travel at light speed for a month. When I land I find that a year has passed. I have time traveled 11 months into the future. It not only is possible, it's a proven fact. Note Times used not ment to be accurate, just to show the point.
Shockey
True.
If one could go faster than the speed of light, then one could travel away from the earth...stop, peer back at the earth (using a high powered telescope for ex.) and actually be looking back into time as the light that you've past catches up with you.
Looking at the sun (through protective lenses of course), you are actually looking at what happened on the sun about 8 minutes ago so your looking back into time...real time. That's how long it takes for light from the sun to reach the earth.
Using a telescope, one can see what is (was) happening on Proxima Centauri about 4.2 years ago, since it is about 4.2 light years away. In other words, your presently looking at the nearest star's past...that happened 4.2 years ago.
Although, technically, not physically traveling back in time.
Originally posted by shockey: It's proven that as you approach the speed of light, time slows down. So, I get in a ship and travel at light speed for a month. When I land I find that a year has passed. I have time traveled 11 months into the future. It not only is possible, it's a proven fact. Note Times used not ment to be accurate, just to show the point.
Shockey
NO, NO, NO ! Time doesn't slow down, only the perception of time does. Think of time as a river of water, and you are in a boat on that river. When you paddle downstream at the same speed of the water your movement thru the water appears to stop, but the shore keeps on moving. If you go upstream fast enough you can catch up with, and stay with a point on shore, but everything in the water moves downstream from your boat.
When you stop paddling your boat and go back ashore you may find the world you left, but it won't be the same world you left.
NO, NO, NO ! Time doesn't slow down, only the perception of time does. Think of time as a river of water, and you are in a boat on that river. When you paddle downstream at the same speed of the water your movement thru the water appears to stop, but the shore keeps on moving. If you go upstream fast enough you can catch up with, and stay with a point on shore, but everything in the water moves downstream from your boat.
When you stop paddling your boat and go back ashore you may find the world you left, but it won't be the same world you left.
No thats relativity youve described. Like flying a J3 cub into 50 MPH headwind at 40 MPH Indicated AS would be 50 MPH. ground speed would be -10 MPH. Effectivly flying backwards relative to the ground while indicating 50 MPH forward speed.
I think the key to communications moving backwards in time would depend on whether the sender can calculate how much faster than the speed of light the signal should travel in order to compensate for distance.
That done, you could have intragalactic chitchat in real time.
Sounds like a song. But WHO did it? 
