Isn't it safe to assume that TIME TRAVEL will NEVER be possible?

[November Rain]

i don't technically consider quantum leaping as time travelling. since sam beckett's body never actually left his time frame.

 

[November Rain]

here's the reality, time travelling is technically possible and may exist in the future...

however travelling back in tie is virtually an impossibility.

Even if it Did exist, we would be careful to make sure it was purely for providing evidence on details that occured in the past, making sure not to upset the balance of the future humans now call their present.

anyway, just like cloning, it would morally be outlawed...

imagine going back to the birth of christ and having fundamental or scientific evidence that could prove or disprove he was the son of god, or even going back to the beginning of creation itself.

Do you think the churches and religions of the world would actually allow such a thing to happen, it would be like the Da Vinci code on a exponential level.



ethics simply wouldn't allow it.

 

[Danalys]

he never got home

 

[November Rain]

he got home a few times actually, once was when himself and al were struck by lightening while leaping and swapped places.



he's also leaped into his own body on at least two occasions.

 

[Mike_D202]

Then how do you explain the Philidelphia experiment??

I rest my case.

 

[Danalys]

here's the reality, time travelling is technically possible and may exist in the future...

however travelling back in tie is virtually an impossibility.

Even if it Did exist, we would be careful to make sure it was purely for providing evidence on details that occured in the past, making sure not to upset the balance of the future humans now call their present.

anyway, just like cloning, it would morally be outlawed...

imagine going back to the birth of christ and having fundamental or scientific evidence that could prove or disprove he was the son of god, or even going back to the beginning of creation itself.

Do you think the churches and religions of the world would actually allow such a thing to happen, it would be like the Da Vinci code on a exponential level.



ethics simply wouldn't allow it.

the chaos and death threats from people who's beliefs were shattered would be far too dangerous for everyone. only some one with a death wish and a disregard for the safety of everyone would do such a thing.

 

[Danalys]

he got home a few times actually, once was when himself and al were struck by lightening while leaping and swapped places.



he's also leaped into his own body on at least two occasions.

but he didn't get to his time. in effect the quantum leap experiment can be thought of as something that killed him. the show would be like his after life. a continuous hell.

 

[November Rain]

the chaos and death threats from people who's beliefs were shattered would be far too dangerous for everyone. only some one with a death wish and a disregard for the safety of everyone would do such a thing.

 

[November Rain]

but he didn't get to his time. in effect the quantum leap experiment can be thought of as something that killed him. the show would be like his after life. a continuous hell.

he did get to his time, that was my first example.



it was a glorious ep.

 

[Danalys]

hmm must have missed that one. or it's sliped my mind.

 

[Doobie88]

What's to say a time traveller hasn't prevented something truely catastrophic like the end of the world?

 

[Kyalesyin]

Interesting question: Would it be possible to go back in time and kill your grandfather?

I'm thinking no, because if I did that, I wouldn't have been born, and so couldn't go back and kill him, but I'm not sure...

Any thoughts?

 

[November Rain]

Interesting question: Would it be possible to go back in time and kill your grandfather?

I'm thinking no, because if I did that, I wouldn't have been born, and so couldn't go back and kill him, but I'm not sure...

Any thoughts?

you could kill him after he gives birth to your father thus relieving you of that paradox...

 

[Master Chief]

I think time travel will eventually become possible, but only to the past, and when you time travel you'll be like a ghost. You can't change anything because it's already happened, and you can't go into the future because it hasn't happened yet.

 

[Ahura Mazda]

Theoretically it is possible and I think String thoery may lead to such a methodolgy that would allow quasi-time travelling.

The above posts are mostly correct in so far that they stay in line with the Theory of General Relativity (minus the universal constant).

It would be interesting to see what will happen but other advances may be more essential to the continuance of human life then dimensional travel.

 

[Demon Within]

Then how do you explain the Philidelphia experiment??

I rest my case.

Your confusing time travel with faster then light movement.

 

[Ahura Mazda]

Your confusing time travel with faster then light movement.

Being able to move faster then light or near light would mean you would be traveling through time to a significant degree.

 

[Kyalesyin]

Being able to move faster then light or near light would mean you would be traveling through time to a significant degree.

I don't get that- does it mean that time and light move at the same speed?

 

[chamber-music]

If one believes that at some point in mans history, this great scientific achievement will be possible, isn't it safe to assume that someone should already know about it-in our time?

Think about it, someone from say the year 2800, would have undoutable already been (Or may still be here) and have inter-reacted with someone with the government, so someone from our time should already know time travel will be possible in the future, right?

But here's my thing, IF TIME TRAVEL is one day conceivable, why then did, say '911' still take place? I picked that day because it will be forever mark as a historic day in US history, so someone from the future should know of it. It seems to me that TIME TRAVEL may NEVER be possible due to all the horrific events that have happened over the last few centuries, which could have been easily been prevented by someone coming back in time with the preconcieved knowledge of when, where and how these events take place......

...don't you agree?
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Maybe there will be rescrictions on time travel?

Maybe altering an event like '911' will seriously jepodize other future events if prevented?

Maybe someone DID try and prevent some great, historical atrocity, and succeeded in a way. What we deem as horrific, they deemed as an OK outcome-as, ORIGINALLY, the event turned out alot worse?

Your thoughts....

time travel may only be possible from the time a working form of time travel is created. So people will only be able to travel as far back as when time travel began.

 

[Halcohol]

I don't get that- does it mean that time and light move at the same speed?

It means that as you travel infinitely close to the speed of light, your perception of the passing of time will be slowed down greatly.

To you, you experience maybe 5 minutes. However once you slow down, you find out that a few hours have elapsed to the rest of the world. You will have effectively traveled into the future.

 

[Kyalesyin]

time travel may only be possible from the time a working form of time travel is created. So people will only be able to travel as far back as when time travel began.

That makes a scary ammount of sense. The government just has to keep time travel in storage until its useful type thing.

 

[Kyalesyin]

It means that as you travel infinitely close to the speed of light, your perception of the passing of time will be slowed down greatly.

To you, you experience maybe 5 minutes. However once you slow down, you find out that a few hours have elapsed to the rest of the world. You will have effectively traveled into the future.

I still don't get it, but I think I'd need to look at it in more depth for it to make sense... effectively, the rest of the world would age by a few hours, but you'd only age a few minutes, or is it just the perception that shifts?

 

[Demon Within]

I think time travel will eventually become possible, but only to the past, and when you time travel you'll be like a ghost. You can't change anything because it's already happened, and you can't go into the future because it hasn't happened yet.

So then your saying that everything in the universe from the start of existance, down to the smallest molecule is "recorded" somewhere and we just to find a way to play it back?


Another question: Whats the future when your dealing with time travel?

John connor sent the Terminator back in time to guard himself as a teen. That teen thought he was living in the now-future when infact he was not. Who then is living in the Now-future? Since John Connor "past" was still in motion that suggests the past moves forward but on a linear path. If you think about the moment time travel is invented and that one day it will be on that linear past path, its reasonable to say they could go into the "future" because its the Linear future that has already come about.

Time travel suggests that time preceded existance (I.E. you can travel back in time before the universe was created) but how can time "exist" if there is nothing to observe it?

 

[Demon Within]

Being able to move faster then light or near light would mean you would be traveling through time to a significant degree.

Sure if you want to call it that. If you traveled the speed of light to another galaxy, then went back to where you came from you "traveled time" into what is now the future of where you left. But If i take a run to the store and then come home to find things not the same as when I left did I just time travel?

 

[Ahura Mazda]

Sure if you want to call it that. If you traveled the speed of light to another galaxy, then went back to where you came from you "traveled time" into what is now the future of where you left. But If i take a run to the store and then come home to find things not the same as when I left did I just time travel?

It is technically time travel even though I do get your point that it is not the science fictional version which would have us be able to observe dinosaurs first hand.