Time Travel?

[gentry_joey]

Do you think its possible yes or no why or why not.

[Dooin' it]

OK, gotta jump on this one quick................

Yes, I think it's possible forward, but dunno about backward.

IIRC, it's only a matter of literal/physical speed to run forward thru time......(actually, I believe it's changing time one experiences)

IOW, the standard protocol, (again, IIRC) is to send someone up in a ship, get up to at least 1x light speed for a specific # of seconds, perhaps even a single second, then return that person to their previous environment and while nothing would have aged more than that single-second (plus travel back to earth, etc.) in that one person's environment, however, the environment left behind for the travel would have aged some "X" number of years.

True/false?? I believe it to be true, just by the math, but wonder when/if it'll ever be tested????? Makes ya' go hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Oh, and if anybody has info about going BACKWARD in time, love ta' hear it. This kinda' stuff intrigues me!

[Vagabond]

read The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking.....

it talks about this in non physics terms and is a fast fun read... though some sections im still thinking about....

Yes i tink it be possible... and btw everything is relative

[RobRich]

Reliable time travel is not possible if you subscribe to the idea we are suspended among an infinite number of branched dimensions. Travel may be possible both forwards and backwards, but the ability to even marginally control such travel may prove limited at best.

I recommend reading these papers to familiarize yourself with the basic elements of current time travel theories....

http://astron.berkeley.edu/~bmendez/html/time.html
http://www.biols.susx.ac.uk/home/Joh...n/timetrav.htm

The problem I have with most theories relates to infinite dimensions. Time travel may be possible, but I do not believe it possible to navigate a single time stream while remaining within a specific dimension due to the infinitely random possibilities associated with time branching into infinite dimensions (or continuums) at an infinite rate.

Did you notice I like the word infinite?

Robert Richmond

[omalleytrading]

I believe that experiments on the space shuttle have shown that "time travel" is possible. The faster you move, the slower time advances.

If you're talking about Science Fiction Time Travel, however (jump in my machine and go back to the Middle Ages or forward to meet the Jetsons), no, I don't think that's possible.

[Dooin' it]

Rob,

Thanks for the headache.........LOL!!!

I just got thru the first article & can barely wrap my head around it all. However, there are some interesting points of view to the theories involved. I must admit, however, that since the mass/velocity problem seems unavoidable due to our physical nature, I can only comprehend a ***real*** possibility of forward time travel.

Looks like all we really need to do is find a vessel for our physical shell to get to .99c (critical velocity which equals just under 1x speed of light) and we can easily prove that the math does work. (The equations say yes, but as with all science, it's so much more fun to test the theory!)

In fact, (as omalley suggested by Shuttle experiments), it would seem that if someone reeeeally wanted to (involving the wasting of several years, if not decades at best) one could probably prove it today, but I don't know who would want to spend the next 50 years traveling at .xx of "c" (I'm guessin' .99c is a bit much to expect in 2004) just to prove they're 6 weeks older than they should be after 50 years of high-speed travel........he he hee hee!!!!!

[The Real Bingo]

Can someone say Philadelphia Experiment? Rumor has it time travel occured. Invisibility, molecular transportation, what can't electromagnets do?

[Fr4gm4n]

......I'll get my coat

[Bovon]

Quote:

Can someone say Philadelphia Experiment?

ROFLMAO!!

[The Real Bingo]

What's so funny, Bovon?