Time travel makes no sense

cowzerp · 24-09-2011 01:52PM #1

1st off if there is or ever will be such thing im pretty sure people would be with us now from the future

2nd
to believe if i could go back a day thats basically saying that there i would be repeating the whole day or that going back in time has rewound time

It just makes zero sense or at least could someone explain it in a way that it might make sense!!

Helix · 24-09-2011 01:56PM

ill tell you what makes no sense, point 2, whatever the hell that was supposed to mean

time travel, if possible, needs to be such that no changes have been made to the past. that means if you figure out a way to time travel tomorrow, and come back to today, you will already have done it before you figure out how to time travel. you time travelling doesn't change the past in that case, it merely allows the past to happen as was, and you cant alter it

Kojak · 24-09-2011 01:58PM

Ahm, "Back to the Future" anyone??

Sonics2k · 24-09-2011 01:58PM

See my sig.

Temptamperu · 24-09-2011 02:06PM

Im sure if there was time travelers we would see the caravans everywhere :pac:

longhalloween · 24-09-2011 02:08PM

Hmm, maybe to travel through time there needs to be a portal or something in the time you want to go to.

Since we dont have one of these yet, no one can travel back to this time.

Logical Fallacy · 24-09-2011 02:09PM

Just watch the movie Primer, it's the only film where anyone made a decent stab of the actual practicalities of time travel.

LordSutch · 24-09-2011 02:12PM

I wonder does the new discovery (Sub-atomic particles travel faster than light) mean that things may not be as they seem? including distance, speed, and time travel? because if something can go faster than light, then surely there's a fascinating if . . . . . . .

4leto · 24-09-2011 02:14PM

Time travel makes lots of sense, it would be so handy.

Temptamperu · 24-09-2011 02:15PM

I would totally go back in time to when i was a kid and kick the shít outta meself :pac:

3ndahalfof6 · 24-09-2011 02:15PM

come on op are you for real, it has happened do you really think the human race all of a sudden got really clever,

how much we have moved forward technology wise in the last 150 yrs, when before that we were dopes,

of course we have been visited from the future, how do you think they beat Hitler, and the Aussie's.

RichieC · 24-09-2011 02:18PM

Fear time travel, people... it be some grizzly culling of the human race going down if I ever land me hands on one

theavenger · 24-09-2011 02:19PM

Its already happened, time cops kick ass anytime somebody tries to alter history.

zuroph · 24-09-2011 02:20PM

Time travel already exists, Cern fired off a bunch of neutrinos and they waited for them to arrive in Gran Sasso lab. Unfortunately, up to now, The closest Ryanair could get them was Bergamo so they had to catch a connecting bus the rest of the way.

RichieC · 24-09-2011 02:22PM

theavenger wrote: »

Its already happened, time cops kick ass anytime somebody tries to alter history.

Ive always thought Ireland should have a time authority that looks after public clocks just so we could have a department of Time or Time Police.

cowzerp · 24-09-2011 02:38PM

Helix wrote: »

time travel, if possible, needs to be such that no changes have been made to the past. that means if you figure out a way to time travel tomorrow, and come back to today, you will already have done it before you figure out how to time travel. you time travelling doesn't change the past in that case, it merely allows the past to happen as was, and you cant alter it

That makes no sense, sure just travelling back would change the past automatically-point been it's totally stupid that people think you can go back in time, it's gone-otherwise there would be me there and in the future, 2 of me and actually billions because what if you go 1 second back in time, 2 me again etc

Or do people think going back brings everyone back!

it just makes no sense is what im saying

Guill · 24-09-2011 02:42PM

1st off if there is or ever will be such thing im pretty sure people would be with us now from the future

Eh, maybe they are.

2nd
to believe if i could go back a day thats basically saying that there i would be repeating the whole day or that going back in time has rewound time

For you maybe....

SV · 24-09-2011 02:46PM

If time travel is possible we would only be able to travel back to a point where time travel had already been made possible.

bucketybuck · 24-09-2011 02:46PM

I always thought Time Travel was one of the blindest of scientific dreams.

Consider time, it is just a man made label. Days, weeks, years, they are just words we made up to give us context.

Travel in time? You might as well try to travel in weights and measures.

Helix · 24-09-2011 03:20PM

cowzerp wrote: »

That makes no sense, sure just travelling back would change the past automatically

travelling back in time wouldnt change the past at all, it would fulfil it

TheMilkyPirate · 24-09-2011 03:20PM

cowzerp wrote: »

1st off if there is or ever will be such thing im pretty sure people would be with us now from the future

2nd
to believe if i could go back a day thats basically saying that there i would be repeating the whole day or that going back in time has rewound time

It just makes zero sense or at least could someone explain it in a way that it might make sense!!

How do you know there isn't??? What do you expect them to do, Come back and announce to the world that they are from the future? They'd be locked up in a straight jacket.

Helix · 24-09-2011 03:21PM

SV wrote: »

If time travel is possible we would only be able to travel back to a point where time travel had already been made possible.

no, we would only be able to travel back to a point that we had arrived from the future to in the past

dlofnep · 24-09-2011 03:25PM

Everything you see is in the past. You never see anything in the present. When you look at the Sun, you see it as it was 8 minutes beforehand. You never see the sun as it is. When you look at the sky - you see stars how they were 1000's of years ago, and if you are lucky enough to have a telescope - you can see objects as they were millions of years ago. This is all down to how long it takes light to travel to us.

So technically - everytime you look at the sky, you are looking back through time.

Logical Fallacy · 24-09-2011 03:25PM

Helix wrote: »

travelling back in time wouldnt change the past at all, it would fulfil it

But would it spoon afterwards?

Is time travel a caring lover?

I doubt it.

iPaddyM · 24-09-2011 03:41PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnLIxEso4rg

Captain_Generic · 24-09-2011 05:14PM

Earth ->0.<-You

Earth 5 minutes earlier orbiting the Sun ->0

--Distance you are getting dicked by--

.<-You traveling back 5 minutes to what is now the middle of fucking space

Saila · 24-09-2011 05:24PM

RichieC wrote: »

Ive always thought Ireland should have a time authority that looks after public clocks just so we could have a department of Time or Time Police.

we do heres a documentary on them

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

Fremen · 24-09-2011 05:29PM

"All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber." -Kurt Vonnegut

Darlughda · 24-09-2011 05:29PM

dlofnep wrote: »

Everything you see is in the past. You never see anything in the present. When you look at the Sun, you see it as it was 8 minutes beforehand. You never see the sun as it is. When you look at the sky - you see stars how they were 1000's of years ago, and if you are lucky enough to have a telescope - you can see objects as they were millions of years ago. This is all down to how long it takes light to travel to us.

So technically - everytime you look at the sky, you are looking back through time.

You have just scrambled my brain.

I have spent the last 10 mins looking at things confirming I am looking in the present, but the minute I confirm that, its in the past....

muff03 · 24-09-2011 05:30PM

when I was in the future I used to time travel every Saturday

Captain Chaos · 24-09-2011 05:33PM

Time travel into the future is possible and astronauts have being doing this since they first went into space. Even the ones on the ISS now are doing it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM28eErikAo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plQ4wrZvGlI

Time travel makes no sense

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