Time Travel - How Far Away Are We?

[icansleep]

I subscribe to several prominent Sci-Fi e-Newsletters and it was recently discussed that the possibility of time travel might not be that far away. I know there are a group of 'Crappers on board here that have discussed the subject of time travel in the past (no pun intended) and the question I pose to them is, do you forsee being able to travel through time within the next 100 years? I don't believe it's out of the realm of possibility.

[Malcolm]

I really don't see how it can happen or be possible. I hope I'm wrong, though.

[Vice honcho room temperature]

If they had time travel in the future wouldn't they come back to this time with proof.

[Malcolm]

May 7, 2008 18:52:57 GMT -5 Vice honcho room temperature said:

If they had time travel in the future wouldn't they come back to this time with proof.

If they did, I think it would end up messing up the time line causing time travel to never happen...

...I think might have happened already.

[Insomniac]

May 7, 2008 18:54:24 GMT -5 Malcolm said:

May 7, 2008 18:52:57 GMT -5 Vice honcho room temperature said:

If they had time travel in the future wouldn't they come back to this time with proof.

If they did, I think it would end up messing up the time line causing time travel to never happen...

...I think might have happened already.

Yeah. Doc Brown warned about f***ing up the space-time continuum.

[T.J. "the Crippler" Stevens]

Damn it'd be awesome. But unfortunately there's a reason why it's called science-fiction. The biggest problem I'd see is that time is not something tangible that actually exists. The whole concept of "time" is really nothing more than a man made tool. How do you manipulate something that doesn't exist in the first place? There is Einstein's theory about objects approaching the speed of light. But how do you get something to move at that speed without it either leaving the earth (the only place where "time" exists), or turning the object into pure energy (theory of relativity)? Those theories have never even been proven though. For the same reason; Time doesn't exist.

I'd like to think we could do it soon. Does the article give any specifics about what they've learned?

[erisi236]

I checked it out and traveled to more then 1,000 years in the Future and they still haven't invented Time Travel....

[lildude8218]

May 7, 2008 18:52:57 GMT -5 Vice honcho room temperature said:

If they had time travel in the future wouldn't they come back to this time with proof.

Einstein stated that time travel is only possible into the past as far as the point when the first time machine was invented.

[Mother]

I was trying to explain this to someone

For example, if you were to go back in time, say it's 2008 and you go back to 1988. Would time continue to exist in 2 parallels, which would in a way, prove Einstein wrong. Or would time cease to exist for anyone who wasn't boarded on the time machine (given the fact that the machine itself can manipulate that counter).

And if that is the case and you go back to 1988, and you change a simple event, such as an assassination or something, would the second plain of time (2008) follow the same structure as far as once the event itself takes place, it would automatically (and dramatically) cause a change at that very moment (for example text books would change at that very instance).

Also how would this not untear the whole concept of the universe itself? It is improbable in my understanding at least.

[wildojinx]

May 7, 2008 18:59:57 GMT -5 lildude8218 said:

May 7, 2008 18:52:57 GMT -5 Vice honcho room temperature said:

If they had time travel in the future wouldn't they come back to this time with proof.

Einstein stated that time travel is only possible into the past as far as the point when the first time machine was invented.

Well, there goes my plan of going back in time and getting uber-cheap gas at 50s prices every time i need to fill up.

[Lucha Lee Tour 2009 [SOLD OUT]]

All these UFO sightings are really time travellers I tells ya.

[ironfan]

I cant believe ppl are arguing whenever time travel can exist or not thats like arguing wherever santa clause exists or not.

OF COURSE IT DOESNT EXIST. If it did, we would have ALREADY met time travelers on MANY occasions. DUH.

[T.J. "the Crippler" Stevens]

May 7, 2008 19:01:35 GMT -5 Mother said:

I was trying to explain this to someone

For example, if you were to go back in time, say it's 2008 and you go back to 1988. Would time continue to exist in 2 parallels, which would in a way, prove Einstein wrong. Or would time cease to exist for anyone who wasn't boarded on the time machine (given the fact that the machine itself can manipulate that counter).

And if that is the case and you go back to 1988, and you change a simple event, such as an assassination or something, would the second plain of time (2008) follow the same structure as far as once the event itself takes place, it would automatically (and dramatically) cause a change at that very moment (for example text books would change at that very instance).

Also how would this not untear the whole concept of the universe itself? It is improbable in my understanding at least.

Time doesn't exist in the first place. And even our man made concept of it only applies here on this planet with this sun. It's certainly not a universal concept.

[Lair of the Shadow MaDaBa]

I'm assuming that, were time travel to already exist, the timeline's been changed already. In other words, it's a possibility that this timeline that we're living in is not the correct one.

[Psicosis Auto Theft]

I thoerize (not for sure though) that shadow people en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_people are time travelers and that's why they don't want to be seen by us on our plain. I've heard that today it's capable but only if you start it from today's time and come back to it years an years later.

If I could go back in time I'd go back to pre-Biblic times to see just how bad ass it was. If not I've always wanted to go back to the time where there was no governments and you just kill animals and collect berries and fruits to survive in general. Right from the get-go I'd vigorious.

[Papelmate]

We're already there but the government is hiding it from us.

[Hassan bin Sober]

Time does exist. It's a crock that people are always stating that it doesn't. Time is the 4th dimension. Man made concept? So no time would have ever of passed if human beings had never of been? How would the planets have formed if not for the passage of time? Talk about egotistical.

[Drillbit Taylor]

May 7, 2008 19:14:06 GMT -5 Psicosis Auto Theft said:

I thoerize (not for sure though) that shadow people en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_people are time travelers and that's why they don't want to be seen by us on our plain. I've heard that today it's capable but only if you start it from today's time and come back to it years an years later.

If I could go back in time I'd go back to pre-Biblic times to see just how bad ass it was. If not I've always wanted to go back to the time where there was no governments and you just kill animals and collect berries and fruits to survive in general. Right from the get-go I'd vigorious.

The Shadow people one actually makes some sense.

[Lupin the Third]

May 7, 2008 19:16:09 GMT -5 Hassan bin Sober said:

Time does exist. It's a crock that people are always stating that it doesn't. Time is the 4th dimension. Man made concept? So no time would have ever of passed if human beings had never of been? How would the planets have formed if not for the passage of time? Talk about egotistical.

I thought Time was the 5th dimension?

Anyways, I think time travel is possible. Would I wanna do it, though? Probably not, as stated before, there's two possible things happening: Either history is set in stone and nothing can be changed, or history can be changed, but it causes a rupture in the space/time continuum, thus destroying the universe. I don't wanna find out if it's the second one that happens.

[Lair of the Shadow MaDaBa]

I'm actually more concerned with the concept of other civilized life in the universe. I mean, the odds say that in this particular solar system, we're it, but the fact that we can't move on to other galaxies is just disheartening. Damned planet and its lack of fuel. Maybe if we used all the fuel we had on one big giant rocket instead of wasting it all on our cars, we'd have met other beings by now.

Of course, seeing as how the other beings haven't made their presence known, it may mean that they don't have the resources on their planets either.