Time Travel

[MokatheGroundhog]

personally i don't believe that the world will end on December 21, 2012, instead it will happen when the sun turns into a red giant (hopefully, if the human race is still around then hopefully we will have found another habitable planet by then)

[Winnie Cooper]

lol I can't believe how much speculation this gets. It is purely all wound up in their religion. 12 cycles of 12,000 or something like that - why put any stock in this when there are a dozen cults out there that also say they know when the world is going to end, and not put any thought to them? Even the Jehovah's Witnesses have tried to predict the end of time twice and been wrong both times. Hal Lindsey too, and he still sells books by the million.

[MokatheGroundhog]

Originally Posted by victoriahnichole

lol I can't believe how much speculation this gets. It is purely all wound up in their religion. 12 cycles of 12,000 or something like that - why put any stock in this when there are a dozen cults out there that also say they know when the world is going to end, and not put any thought to them? Even the Jehovah's Witnesses have tried to predict the end of time twice and been wrong both times. Hal Lindsey too, and he still sells books by the million.

that is something, i think there will plenty of end of the world predictions

heres mine 1 billion years from now

[MokatheGroundhog]

by the way what do you all think of my signature?

[MokatheGroundhog]

the following link leads to an image of the delorean that was used in Back to the Future 1,2 and 3

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...4/STA70120.JPG

[TS_Chris]

Originally Posted by chibigo

My opinion about time travel is this:
Time is something, humans invented, and saying that time is a dimension is ridiculous. It's a way of measuring and a tool for planning, but matter can not move freely in time, as it can move in the three currently known dimesions, therefore there is no point in calling time a dimension. Also, therefore time-travel is apart from being a paradox, also completely irrelevant to any existing being in our universe.

My good chibigo, have you by chance heard of the Twin Paradox? What it basically says is that time behaves differently at near light speed - given two twins of exact same age, should one go into space and travel at near-light speed, he will age slower than the twin on Earth. The space twin doesn't technically age slower, more like time moves slower in relation to time on Earth. Say the space twin takes a trip to the nearest star and takes 5 years to get there and back - while only 5 years will have passed for the twin experiencing near-light speeds, 10 years will have passed for the twin on Earth!

I forget how exactly it works, but trust me it does. Why I mention this, is because it leads to the possiblitiy of time travel - however, not as everyone is thinking, with stuff like moving backwards through time to hang with Jesus or the Pharoah - no, according to current scientific law any time traveling will only be from the future to the past and vice-a-versa.

Let me explain by setting up the process. This entire process relies on wormholes, and the stabilization and enlarging of them. (They blink in and out all the time in the quantum space-time foam.) Take one end of the worm hole, and subject it to the Twin Paradox - one end stays on earth, while the other goes into space to travel at near light speeds. When the space end returns to Earth, it will have aged say 5 years since stablization, while the other end has aged 10 years (using the aforementioned example with twins.) Since the space end is only 5 years old, it is still connected to the earth end 5 years in the past - entering the space end would effectively time-travel someone back 5 years.

So effectively this method of time travel will only allow access to the past as far back as the worm hole is first stabilized. It's not very effective in manipulating the when, but hey - at least it's theorhetically possible.

[Chaoswolf]

paradox lol :3

[Spiderman]

YOu know I have just read the short responses in this thread instead of the long responses and you know what I have learned. Absolutely nothing!!!!!!!

[Chaoswolf]

sometimes knowledge is gained the hard way by reading :3

[MokatheGroundhog]

wow a 3d picture