Time Travel

[Chaoswolf]

wow a person whos never seen 3d pictures :3

[Kamelot]

You could only travel to the past as the future has yet to happen... so if you traveled back you couldn't get back to the future as it has yet to happen.

[Kamelot]

If it were to happen I would go back in time and kill my father as this would mean I would cease to exist that would mean I never went back in time which would mean I never killed my father which means I still exist which would tear a hole in the universe and give me a headache....

[Chaoswolf]

I still believe in the time paradox thing and due to being tired I will not I repeat I will not type down an extremely long explanation on why it wouldnt work :3 im not argueing just saying what I think :3

[Kamelot]

Try it on a phone.....

[Chaoswolf]

No thank you sir :3

[TS_Chris]

Originally Posted by johnjarvela

wow a 3d picture

That thare is a little thing we call perspecative, son. Tain't no three-dI-mensional picature, she just gives tha illusion 'o tree-dee. Ain't a good one at that, don' look tree-dee ta me at all.

Speakin' 'o tree-dee picatures and time as a fourth dI-menshion, I gots ya a real tree-dee picature ri' hea.



Tain't no real piacture on account'a it'sa movin' picature, bu' whatevah. Ta see a real tree-dee picature ya'd need some all 'o those speci-al glasses ta make 'em pop out at ya 'n shtuff.

Ya hea'n me, son?

[chibigo]

Originally Posted by TS_Chris

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.

My good TS Chris, have you ever heard of common physics?
First of all, that thought experiment Twin Paradox (with its misleading name) is in fact completely useless as well as any idea about time-travel through obtaining light speed, simply of the known fact, that matter cannot reach light speed in any way, that's why the clevermen say close-to-light-speed so much every time they're talking about big acellerating experiments. Ask your physics teacher, if you don't believe me.
(And an extra side note: Time does not stand still for even photons (that stuff you'd reckognice as light). They're being stretched, and you can actually see on their "stretch-marks", how long it was since they got sent out, aswell as how hot it where they were created. - Thats the primary reason, that physicists believe so much in the big bang theory, but that's another discussion ^^)
- Sorry if I'm being harsh now, but I like physics pretty much. :3

Also, it is in no way recognised as a fact, that wormholes actually exist. It's entirely hypothetical, but with this remark, I shall cease the mocking.
After all, all of this thing about time is obviously hypothetical (heck, I'm even questioning the actual existence of time), so I can't deny your theories.

All in all, I'd still stick with Chaoswolf and credit the time paradox theory for solving all these problems for us.

[MokatheGroundhog]

can we get this thread moving please?

[kai777]

that would be swell XD