Time Travel

lcrcboy

So what do you think is it possible???
Are there people from the future walking amongst us??
Or is it just sci-fi nonsense

St.Spodo

In essence, no,no and yes.

Hedman

All i know is, my gut says... maybe.

backthephilup

lcrcboy wrote: »

So what do you think is it possible???
Are there people from the future walking amongst us??
Or is it just sci-fi nonsense

I'd tell you but whats the point you die next friday....

karlog

It's possible to travel forward in time. I think theres an astronaut or cosmonaut that became the first time traveler by .00001 of a second or something like that by spending a few months orbiting earth in a space station.




I challenge anyone to give a better explanation than that

Khyra24

I think it's possible. What if you're from the future now and you don't know it? What!...I don't know.

Captain_Generic

I mentioned it before but because the whole concept is based on travelling through one point in space, unless the earth was in that exact same position in its orbit of the sun when you came out the other side, you'd just be floating in space and die.
Even travelling back a few seconds the earth would literally leave you behind.
To summarise, death.

Did I mention you'd die?

Zebra3

Time travel is only possible via a hot tub.

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Zebra3 wrote: »

Time travel is only possible via a hot tub.

Or a Michal J Fox.

xoxyx

How about Langoliers? I love that movie.

Oh noes, they be eating up my past.

I don't know about time travel - how tangible is the past and future anyway? Not very in my opinion.

Now, multiverses - there's the way to go.

galwayrush

Looking down on us from a higher dimension, of course it's possible, but not from our limited one, where time being our 4th dimension and for general purpose it's linear and we can only move in a forward path along that dimension. Of course, a being looking down on us can see our entire 4th dimension path and can predict our future and see our past, god i hate being sober....

Pherekydes

I travelled back in time to kill my own mother before I was conceived and when I did I ceased to exist, whereupon my mother was fine again, so I appeared again from the future to kill her again and so on, in an infinite loop.

It does work, but the ESB bill is astronomical (infinite, in fact).

Setun

Zebra3 wrote: »

Time travel is only possible via a hot tub.

That sounds like a good premise for a silly and irreverantly comedic film.

Badgermonkey

Anyone know if I'd have to travel to 1982 to pick this up or can the seller deliver to the future?

http://www.adverts.ie/furniture/sofa-for-sale/319078

Praetorian Saighdiuir

xoxyx wrote: »

How about Langoliers? I love that movie.

Oh noes, they be eating up my past.

I don't know about time travel - how tangible is the past and future anyway? Not very in my opinion.

Now, multiverses - there's the way to go.

Holy Guacamole!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I thought I was the only person on the planet that saw that movie, loved it.

Khyra24

galwayrush wrote: »

Looking down on us from a higher dimension, of course it's possible, but not from our limited one, where time being our 4th dimension and for general purpose it's linear and we can only move in a forward path along that dimension. Of course, a being looking down on us can see our entire 4th dimension path and can predict our future and see our past, god i hate being sober....

Can those beings also see us naked?! :eek: *hands you a pint of Guinness*

helimachoptor

Pherekydes wrote: »

I travelled back in time to kill my own mother before I was conceived and when I did I ceased to exist, whereupon my mother was fine again, so I appeared again from the future to kill her again and so on, in an infinite loop.

It does work, but the ESB bill is astronomical (infinite, in fact).

This, but if you believe in alternate realities you kill your mam and life continues on from that point and you cease to exist at that point and are never born, op if suggest you read a few books on it, the time travel paradox is quite interesting

xoxyx

benwavner wrote: »

Holy Guacamole!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I thought I was the only person on the planet that saw that movie, loved it.

Leaping lizards and big, giant sphere-shaped things with voracious appetites and sharp teeth - I LOVE that movie. In fact, having reminded myself of it, I'm watching the start of it on YouTube right now.

This has to be the one Stephen King story that I prefer as a movie.

Pherekydes

I'll bet Mary Mitchell-O'Connor wants to travel back in time...:D

Fremen

This picture says it all, really.

Fremen

karlog wrote: »

It's possible to travel forward in time. I think theres an astronaut or cosmonaut that became the first time traveler by .00001 of a second or something like that by spending a few months orbiting earth in a space station.




I challenge anyone to give a better explanation than that

Yeah... the faster you move relative to another object, the faster time appears to be passing for that object.

From the point of view of someone standing on the object, time is passing normally and it's you that appears to be moving forward through time faster.

This only works if you're moving at a constant rate. If you're accelerating, the rules are a little different. That's special relativity in a nutshell.

fudgie101

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/sy-18502590/r_kelly_if_i_could_turn_back_the_hands_of_time_official_music_video/

Irish Guitarist

It's more likely that you could travel into the future than the past. Actually astronauts are very slightly younger when they return to Earth than they would have been if they had never went into space because time moves at a different rate in space.

When faster space shuttles are built it will be possible to travel further into the future. You might spend, say, ten years in space and return to find a hundred years had passed on Earth.

Most scientests don't believe travelling back in time is possible. They could be wrong though.

Shryke

Traveling forward is possible, it would just require an incredible amount of energy to go very far into the earths future and not die yourself.
Back in time is a no no for us and that probably won't change.

tfitzgerald

My god it worked

Scuid Mhór

in the way we'd like it to be? never.

tfitzgerald

I think I can travel back in time i'ii try 5 min first if it works I will let ye know;)

cucbuc

benwavner wrote: »

Holy Guacamole!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I thought I was the only person on the planet that saw that movie, loved it.

I read it years ago (Love vintage Stephen King) and saw the movie some time after..brilliant..pacmen :pac::pac::pac:chomping up the world making THAT noise.:D

I love to think time travel might be possible. Didn't Einstein say that
speed at a certain level=time passes more slowly..(science not my strong point but I think that's the jist of it)....so mightn't it follow, taking that further, that at a certain speed time would slow down so much that it would begin to reverse....?

There was another, better film a few years ago starring Denis Quaid, with time travel, cant think of name of it offhand, but its good, if you like those kind of fillums.:)

Gummy Panda

Maybe we'll be able to do a Buck Rogers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qok-MJ8r38U

Alter-Ego

There was a company in the 70's that were making Time Machines. They had a manufacturing facility in Belfast. They went bankrupt though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeLorean_Motor_Company

There's a good series of documentaries on the subject with Michael J. Fox.

Aishae

i dont believe its possible as i would hate to think the future is written
but realistically - who knows? could be alternate dimensions too

if all time existed at any given moment - based on einsteins theory - to travel through time it would have to exist at the same time. so if thats the case, it might be possible to go back to the past too.

but lets say time travel is not about folding space but about flying THROUGH time - so the past the present and the future do not exist at the same time - then the past has happened so you can only go forward....

*ah time - what greater way to drive yourself in thought circles*