How long before time machines are invented?

Phill Ewinn · 14-08-2011 10:58PM #1

Turns out I might have just goosed my entire life so far. Just to make sure I will need to find out what happens in the future of this life and then my proposed other life which is less fvcked up.

So, how long peoples. Should I freeze my corpse? Or will it be invented before long?

flutterflye · 14-08-2011 10:59PM

They were obviously never invented in the future seeing as how no one is from the future now.

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 14-08-2011 10:59PM

Yesterday

JDxtra · 14-08-2011 11:00PM

If they are invented in your lifetime, this thread wouldn't exist.

dsmythy · 14-08-2011 11:00PM

flutterflye wrote: »

They were obviously never invented in the future seeing as how no one is from the future now.

They are here. Unfortunately we chucked them into mental hospitals because of their delusions.

Bonavox · 14-08-2011 11:01PM

They never will. If they were invented in the future, they'd come back and let us know.

kirving · 14-08-2011 11:01PM

Not a hope. Well, not in the got back to when you were small type. Astronauts in space actually travel in time as they're moving so fast. I can't really explain why.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7vpw4AH8QQ

Doyler92 · 14-08-2011 11:01PM

flutterflye wrote: »

They were obviously never invented in the future seeing as how no one is from the future now.

Hi, my name is Glenn from the future.

J K · 14-08-2011 11:01PM

By changing your past you will unravel the space time continuum, and destroy the universe and all existence. Well done.

:rolleyes: Don't kids learn any science at all in school anymore

Minstrel27 · 14-08-2011 11:01PM

Who knows what is walking amongst us and from what time they come from.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer · 14-08-2011 11:02PM

You'd only be able to go back in time anyway, thats what Timecop told me.

dsmythy · 14-08-2011 11:03PM

Doyler92 wrote: »

Hi, my name is Glenn from the future.

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

There's only one person from the future. Mr. Titor

cosmicfart · 14-08-2011 11:03PM

Minstrel27 wrote: »

Who knows what is walking amongst us and from what time they come from.

Gay Byrne?

Intensive Care Bear · 14-08-2011 11:03PM

As soon as someone figures out how to build a Flux Capacitor.

Bassboxxx · 14-08-2011 11:05PM

I have one!!!!!!

http://pleaseenjoy.com/admin/uploadedpics/01.clock_copy1.jpg

Tubsandtiles · 14-08-2011 11:08PM

2015
Posted in 2016 using windows 7 for nostalgia purposes

-Kenny- · 14-08-2011 11:10PM

4 years

/thread

Mickeroo · 14-08-2011 11:10PM

Only time travel forward is possible as far as we know......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB3csddgux8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0cVdPHOIxw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ0gQevrPTo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzMrNFd4oOk

EDIT: Try and get your hands on that full documentary, it's amazing!

Stompbox · 14-08-2011 11:12PM

!2 years, 3 months and 6 days from today.

Trust me.

14-08-2011 11:12PM

17 April 2064 @18:45 just after the six-one news.

14-08-2011 11:12PM

TIME DOESN'T EXIST..

rossie1977 · 14-08-2011 11:13PM

flutterflye wrote: »

They were obviously never invented in the future seeing as how no one is from the future now.

if they did come back how would you recognise them as being from the future, if they claimed they were from the future would anybody believe em?? why would they come back to this particular moment in time

SeaFields · 14-08-2011 11:14PM

someone here is going to be able to explain this AOT better than me but here goes....

time travel into the future is possible (technically) already. All you need is to be able to accelerate very quickly. If you were able to accelerate yourself in a spaceship to half the speed of light and travel away at that speed from the earth for a day, stop and return the following day, thousands of years would have passed here. mental!!

edit - beaten to it ; see mickeroo's links above.

14-08-2011 11:14PM

Where I used to work there were 4 monitors that displayed the movie listings but also the time. Yet there was a couple seconds between each one, so if one person stood at one end and someone else at the other, one would be a minute in the future, the other in the past.

Does that count?

flutterflye · 14-08-2011 11:14PM

Gawd, life must be pretty boring in the future if all you guys all decided to come back to here and now.

antodeco · 14-08-2011 11:15PM

I reckon time travel will only be possible from the point they make it. So in 2056 for example, they make a machine capable of time travel, that's the furthest back they can go. Think of it like a portal. In order to travel, you need an start/end portal. That portal doesn't exist as of yet, so they can't travel back to now.

14-08-2011 11:15PM

rossie1977 wrote: »

if they time come back how would you recognise them as being from the future, if they claimed they were from the future would anybody believe em?? why would they come back to this particular moment in time

Because we live in interesting times! (to a historian any time is interesting)

Mickeroo · 14-08-2011 11:16PM

antodeco wrote: »

I reckon time travel will only be possible from the point they make it. So in 2056 for example, they make a machine capable of time travel, that's the furthest back they can go. Think of it like a portal. In order to travel, you need an start/end portal. That portal doesn't exist as of yet, so they can't travel back to now.

As far as I know, modern physics has disproved backward time travel but more or less proven forward time travel.

14-08-2011 11:19PM

Forever.

flutterflye · 14-08-2011 11:19PM

rossie1977 wrote: »

if they did come back how would you recognise them as being from the future, if they claimed they were from the future would anybody believe em?? why would they come back to this particular moment in time

Saw your post after I posted the same thing!

Well, we'd surely have a sh1t load of documentation by people claiming to be from the same future, and they would all correspond.

Seafields- I've watched and read loads about that stuff too, and can only manage to grasp bits of it.
Crazy stuff alright!
Complete headfcuk!

Phill Ewinn · 14-08-2011 11:20PM

Right, so how about alternate universes? Is it possible there's another me, living an alternate (let's say plan

life. Could I just replace myself into that happier alternate life.

If so, how?

How long before time machines are invented?

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