Time travel has its mysteries.

[Nitro Vordex]

okay, say you want to go into the future and meet yourself,say 20 years from now. The only problem is you can't, considering there was no you left behind to grow, therefore you can't meet yourself. Then again you can meet yourself because there is the theory that if you time travel foward for example, you can be put in another timeline. There could be many timelines possible. For example:
1. Side A could have a war with Side B and won.
2. Side A could have a war with Side B and lost.
3. Side A and B could have a draw.
4. Side A and B could have lost to a third party, Basically Side C.....

Timeline possibilities are endless. Anything done in our timeline, could have been done differently in another. Sega could have suceeded in it's sales with the dreamcast because of it's abundance of games, then getting upgrades in grafics, there being the most popular system ever. But, alas, we have a different timeline. Thanks for listening, I got bored. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wacko.gif

[KodiaX987]

Problem is, there is no definite time theorem. So literally anything you'll say about time travel is neither true or false because there's no way to verify it.

[DizzyDi]

Lol, thread over.

[Roffkaiser]

If you go into the future you're not there, because the only way to go into the future is to actually speed up time for yourself by going near the speed of light. NASA or the Airforce tested it on the SR-71 and the atomic clock on the craft and the atomic clock on the ground were the same when he left but when he came back they were different. He had gone into the future by like a second http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif

Anyway basically you can go into the future, but you won't be there, its not instantaneous, and you can't go back.

Carl Sagan teaches me everything i need in life!


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[Dangerous55]

On 2006-08-03 12:47, Roffkaiser wrote:
If you go into the future you're not there, because the only way to go into the future is to actually speed up time for yourself by going near the speed of light. NASA or the Airforce tested it on the SR-71 and the atomic clock on the craft and the atomic clock on the ground were the same when he left but when he came back they were different. He had gone into the future by like a second http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif




So he went into the future and what happened? Did time just go faster for that second and when the engines cooled time slowed down?

[Solstis]

I think that our perception of the Universe(and reality) is screwed up if going really fast involves time travel.

[Roffkaiser]

It all has to do with Einstein and that kind of stuff. It also states that if you indeed tried to go to a nearby star system that is say 70 light years away, and you were traveling near the speed of light you would actually get there in like 35 years your time for an example. Though to the people on Earth when you left, 70 years had gone by.

[Blitzkommando]

Think of time, and space itself, like air or gas. It can be compressed under certain conditions. This has been proven, although it was with the Space Shuttle and a pair of twins. The one twin has never gone in space but the other has been up a number of times. The second twin has aged slower to the point where he is now a slight fraction of a second younger, when before he was considered the older brother.

Just remember, time is relative to your position in the universe and what you are doing at a specified moment. Time is simply a measurement for something that is not truly understood as of yet. There are some things we know for certain (time can compress, it is relative and not constant, and it is more a measure of decay rather than growth).

[Akdov]

Light is the universal constant not space itself. As a result there is time dilation from moving faster which makes sense considering under Newtonian physics it would require a system in which magnetic fields would have ends and light would always move away from you at 186,000 mps even if you were traveling at the same speed. But don't forget people living in Washington DC actually move slower than those in the Rocky Mountains because Earth's gravitational pull slightly stronger at sea level although the effects are negligible. If you really want to test this out go sit about a meter away from the event horizon of a black hole preferably a super massive one to reduce the effects of tidal forces. And if you really want to learn about time travel just watch Star Trek.

[Sinue_v2]

I'm still not entire convinced that time, as a property of the universe, even exists.

[Inazuma]

sinue is rite on. time doesnt exist. its just some measurement system we created to help us in life.

[Roffkaiser]

Depending on who you ask there are between 4 and 11 diminsions that are in existance, the 4 being the 4 einstein proposed, 3 physical and 1 time. So unless you want to prove that the other 3 diminsions don't exist than time does.

[DoctorShasta]

Gonna agree with ina and sinue time doesn't exist techncially but WHY ARE WE ARGUING ABOUT THIS?!