The secret to time travel revealed

c_man · 24-11-2015 05:25PM

Joshua5 wrote: »

Because I recently lost my faith in humanity...

Nonsense. Think about it man, humans are the only species in the universe to master time travel.

Joshua5 · 24-11-2015 05:26PM

c_man wrote: »

Nonsense. Think about it man, humans are the only species in the universe to master time travel.

Or to invent a theory of time when time actually never exists...

Ruu · 24-11-2015 05:27PM

Shut up and take my money!

24-11-2015 05:28PM

Joshua5 wrote: »

Basically, time is a made up thingy all numbers and stuff right?

Your understanding of quantum mechanics must have Hawking bricking it.

Antar Bolaeisk · 24-11-2015 05:35PM

You'd only get one day, after that time would carry on as normal.

The easier thing for you to do would be to stand on one of the poles and experience all of time at once (By your logic of course, which bears no correlation to reality).

Drumpot · 24-11-2015 05:37PM

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

One of the biggest plot holes in cinematic history!

The planet spinning in the opposite direction will not reverse time. Nor will what the OP suggests as he'll notice when he walks/swims across the International Date Line.

This is a movie about a superhuman alien being flying around in space without a spacesuit making the earth spin a different direction. .

Do you honestly think the plothole is that it wouldn't really work in real life?

Joshua5 · 24-11-2015 05:37PM

Antar Bolaeisk wrote: »

You'd only get one day, after that time would carry on as normal.

you see thats the thing that makes time fake... if you kept up with the pace it shouldn't change but if you let the pace pass you by then it does...

Arseland · 24-11-2015 05:38PM

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

One of the biggest plot holes in cinematic history!

That's what I used to think as well. What's really happening is that the reversal of the Earth's rotation is supposed to be what Superman would see as he went back through time as he flew faster than light.

Drumpot · 24-11-2015 05:46PM

Arseland wrote: »

That's what I used to think as well. What's really happening is that the reversal of the Earth's rotation is supposed to be what Superman would see as he went back through time as he flew faster than light.

Not to be all nerdy, but as far as I understand, within the laws of physics time travel is possible but not necessarily in the way we understand it. Black holes and ridiculously fast speeds are connected.

I remember seeing a documentary trying to explain it. It was something on the lines that if you had a train track all around the earth. If a train could travel at the fastest possible speed, time would slow down for those on the train. So for example, the people on the train, going around the world at ridiculous speeds for 10 years, might only age by 5 years.

When the train stops it feels like its been only 5 years to those getting off the train, but for everybody else its actually been 10 years. So you might be 5 years younger then people your same age when you started the journey!

Arseland · 24-11-2015 05:55PM

Yeah, time slows down the closer you get to the speed of light, about 670 million miles per hour. If you could somehow get past the light barrier and go faster than light you *might* travel backwards through time. Maybe. Although it would take an infinte amount of energy to accelarate up to those speeds.

Joshua5 · 24-11-2015 05:57PM

Arseland wrote: »

Yeah, time slows down the closer you get to the speed of light, about 670 million miles per hour. If you could somehow get past the light barrier and go faster than light you *might* travel backwards through time. Maybe. Although it would take an infinte amount of energy to accelarate up to those speeds.

You might travel back in time? But time is just numbers. You will age... you won't stay the same. But time is just numbers....

Valetta · 24-11-2015 06:15PM

Joshua5 wrote: »

You might travel back in time? But time is just numbers. You will age... you won't stay the same. But time is just numbers....

If there were no numbers , there would still be time, and hurling matches.

jamesbere · 24-11-2015 07:08PM

Valetta wrote: »

If there were no numbers , there would still be time, and hurling matches.

Hurling is the key, if you puck a ball fast enough around the world you'll send the earth spinning backwards and thus travelling back in time. Someone get davey Fitz

Eugene Norman · 24-11-2015 07:11PM

Drumpot wrote: »

Not to be all nerdy, but as far as I understand, within the laws of physics time travel is possible but not necessarily in the way we understand it. Black holes and ridiculously fast speeds are connected.

I remember seeing a documentary trying to explain it. It was something on the lines that if you had a train track all around the earth. If a train could travel at the fastest possible speed, time would slow down for those on the train. So for example, the people on the train, going around the world at ridiculous speeds for 10 years, might only age by 5 years.

When the train stops it feels like its been only 5 years to those getting off the train, but for everybody else its actually been 10 years. So you might be 5 years younger then people your same age when you started the journey!

That's standard special theory of relativity.

In fact GPS satellites have to compensate for that (and the general theory where gravity also affects time).

Fr_Dougal · 24-11-2015 07:16PM

Joshua5 wrote: »

I've been hiding out away from humans for a little while and I think I have a formula for time travel that I wanted to share.

Basically, time is a made up thingy all numbers and stuff right? And time is made based on the earths movements for day and night. right?

The earth spins, but at what speed? In other words if you walked along with the speed of earth at exactly the same pace then time would stand still?

But how can it stand still if days go by, in other words if you traveled at the same pace of time across earth days would still go by even though your travelling to the time dictated by earth.

Ever thought about entering the Young Scientist competition?

darkpagandeath · 24-11-2015 07:27PM

Space and time are moving the earth is moving the solar system is moving our galaxy is moving. If you did actually time travel you would end up in space or in an object but defiantly not on the earth in 200 years.

24-11-2015 07:35PM

Joshua5 wrote: »

You might travel back in time? But time is just numbers. You will age... you won't stay the same. But time is just numbers....

Here you go OP, this might interest you regarding the aging

https://teachers.web.cern.ch/teachers/archiv/hst2000/teaching/expt/muoncalc/lifecalc.htm

the groutch · 24-11-2015 07:37PM

We already know the secret to time travel

the flux capacitor

Fleawuss · 24-11-2015 07:41PM

Join IS. It's the 7th century folks!

Peregrine · 24-11-2015 10:28PM

Joshua5 wrote: »

Basically, time is a made up thingy all numbers and stuff right? And time is made based on the earths movements for day and night. right?

Joshua5 wrote: »

Or to invent a theory of time when time actually never exists...

Joshua5 wrote: »

You might travel back in time? But time is just numbers. You will age... you won't stay the same. But time is just numbers....

No.

Your homework is to read about special relativity.

I want a two page essay about it on my desk tomorrow morning with special emphasis on time dilation and Lorentz transformations.

The secret to time travel revealed

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