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Do you think a time machine will ever, realistically be built?

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  • 16-05-2010 8:42pm
    #1
    StormWarrior
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭


    I would give my life savings to go back and live in the 80's.


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    Junco Partner
    Registered Users Posts: 2,291 ✭✭✭Junco Partner


    eventually i'd say but probably be a few hundred years


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    #3
    FearDark
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,425 ✭✭✭FearDark


    No, one wont be invented until 2021, dont ask how I know this.


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    4zn76tysfajdxp
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    StormWarrior wrote: »
    I would give my life savings to go back and live in the 80's.



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    #5
    StormWarrior
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭StormWarrior


    But if it's going to be invented, wouldn't people from the future already have come back here? They wouldn't be able to keep it secret for long if they did.


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    Quackles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,484 ✭✭✭Quackles


    Not in our lifetime, anyway.. So make sure you tell your kids and grandkids to come back, pick you up, and head off to the 80s.

    What I'm holding out for is transporters like in Star Trek. Oh, to be able to teleport...


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    .22 Lover
    Registered Users Posts: 997 ✭✭✭.22 Lover


    No.


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    Agricola
    Registered Users Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    Time travel is possible if you can travel faster than light. But since that contradicts all know physics, i dont think it will happen, no.

    Yes, that was a serious answer in AH. Shoot me!


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    Duff
    Registered Users Posts: 5,538 ✭✭✭Duff


    FearDark wrote: »
    No, one wont be invented until 2021, dont ask how I know this.

    How do you know this??



    I'm a rebel!!


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    FearDark
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,425 ✭✭✭FearDark


    StormWarrior wrote: »
    But if it's going to be invented, wouldn't people from the future already have come back here? They wouldn't be able to keep it secret for long if they did.

    ZOMG! Hello, Terminator anyone??


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    StormWarrior
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭StormWarrior


    Agricola wrote: »
    Time travel is possible if you can travel faster than light.

    Why?


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    Dartz
    Registered Users Posts: 4,371 ✭✭✭Dartz


    Depends on what direction you want to go.

    If you want to go forwards, just go very ****ing fast relative to the inertial frame of reference you want to go forward in time relative to.

    If you want to go backwards...

    Go fast in reverse or something.


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    RVD420
    Registered Users Posts: 919 ✭✭✭RVD420


    No, because as said already, time travelling would already be happening....


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    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,212 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    I know how to travel through time... at the speed of regular time

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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    Superbus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,784 ✭✭✭Superbus


    Go at 88 mph in a Delorean, but of course that's impossible, it'll break long before that.


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    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 81,917 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Well let me ask you this OP: Is there a 2-Dimensional device which transports it along 3D space to another 2D plane?


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    Creed Bratton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭Creed Bratton


    Stephen Hawings Universe is on the Discovery Channel in 5 minutes and its about time travel today if you want to find out if it is possible.


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    ddef
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    God Dammit! Why did Doc Brown have to be fictional :(


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    latenia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,997 ✭✭✭latenia


    It's impossible because time is a physical property within objects rather than an external force. Going back is impossible because it no longer exists and the future doesn't exist yet.


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    Corkfeen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,940 ✭✭✭Corkfeen


    I built a time machine but it only travels forward, bids start at a fiver....:D


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    #21
    Richard Noggin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 101 ✭✭Richard Noggin


    StormWarrior wrote: »
    I would give my life savings to go back and live in the 80's.

    Surely not to Ireland, place was in rag order.


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    BBDBB
    Registered Users Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


    Im time travelling right here right now

    at a speed of 1 second per second

    send me a cheque and I'll tell you what the weather will be like this evening


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    Dman001
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    latenia wrote: »
    It's impossible because time is a physical property within objects rather than an external force. Going back is impossible because it no longer exists and the future doesn't exist yet.
    Exactly, as the late Daniel Faraday said "Whatever Happened, Happened". You can't go back, and the future hasn't happened so you can't go forward.


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    dsmythy
    Registered Users Posts: 10,510 ✭✭✭✭dsmythy


    Creed Bratton wrote: »
    Stephen Hawings Universe is on the Discovery Channel in 5 minutes and its about time travel today if you want to find out if it is possible.

    They say yes. I say no. Who are you going to believe huh?


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    #25
    Lone Stone
    Registered Users Posts: 3,405 ✭✭✭Lone Stone


    Who needs a time machine when history always repeats itself ;)


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    jester77
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    latenia wrote: »
    It's impossible because time is a physical property within objects rather than an external force. Going back is impossible because it no longer exists and the future doesn't exist yet.

    But I just replied to your post in the future relative to your post!


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    #27
    Cinful
    Registered Users Posts: 284 ✭✭Cinful


    Clock


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    #28
    ch750536
    Registered Users Posts: 3,736 ✭✭✭ch750536


    I travelled back 20 years when I went to Donegal.


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    #29
    elchupanebrey
    Registered Users Posts: 478 ✭✭elchupanebrey


    ch750536 wrote: »
    I travelled back 20 years when I went to Donegal.

    Zing


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    epgc3fyqirnbsx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    Drving a car is like a time machine, look out the windscreen and you're looking at the future
    Look out the back window and you're looking at the past


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    bmw535d
    Registered Users Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭bmw535d


    one day it will be built


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