Timetravel just pwned you all

[JG.]

Along with my head. I just had to write a small essay on the subject for my English class (Please remember that I live in Denmark, so English is easy for me). If you want to read, go ahead. Might give you something to think about.

 

[spoiler= Time Travel Essay]

Time travel is a very confusing thing to be involved with. Just being there in the past can change many things, if for example you meet someone who makes an important discovery later on, you may have made him think of something else, so he never makes that discovery, which could result in a major setback in human evolution.

 

That is why, if time travel actually existed, which it doesn’t yet, you would have to be infinitely careful about where, or rather when, you go. An example is the one I wrote in the introduction to the essay. But if there was one place I’d like to go in a time machine, it would be back into ancient Egypt, when they were building the pyramids, but honestly, I don’t know where or when I would go. And obviously it is impossible to know how it would feel, but I imagine it a bit like perhaps swimming or flying. As for how the time machine looks, I imagine it as some sort of chamber with a dial, like in cartoons or movies, I guess.

 

Personally, if time travel was possible, I wouldn’t even use it. It would be too risky to go back in time, and to purposely change something… That’s is why part of me hopes that time travel will never become reality, because some people might use it to do evil things, and threaten the world by changing the past, ergo changing the world we currently live in. And if things were changed in the past, it is impossible to know how it would affect the future, or rather the present, depending on how you look at it. It could be everything from subtle changes like a few people not being born, or things like that, or it could major, like electricity has yet to be invented, things like that.

 

That is why time travel is a bad idea. Many people think it would be awesome, but that’s before they think of the consequences. I myself also once thought of it as cool, but now I’d rather not have it. And also, if someone used it to go back and change something, perhaps that would result in them not being born. So when they go back to the present, or future, again depending on how you look at it, they would not exist, resulting in a time paradox, which according to Hollywood would end the world, and I actually see where they’re coming from, since it would distort reality itself… This topic is very, very confusing. It’s hard to explain. But I tried my best.

 

 

 

My teacher likes my writing style, so if the way of writing seems wierd for an essay, it's intentional.

 

Anyways, discuss time travel, and other things that bust your head. Like concrete.

[Dweller of Parables]

The reason she liked your writing style was because the paper doesn't seem robotic. It sounds more like you are talking to the teacher. That is why most teachers like kids who look like they are talking in their paper.

[JG.]

I didn't know that most teachers liked that style. But I guess that that's just good.

[Scatty]

Time travel can be done to the future. All you have to do is increase your speed and that would increase your relative mass, thus changing the spatial curvature around you and time alongside it.

[spoiler=Einstein was smart](curvature of space-time) = (mass-energy density) * 8 pi G / c4

 

Yes, c is the speed of light and G is the weight of the object in newtons.

 

(time speed)=(cosmological constant)*(1+(curvature of space-time))

 

By the way, if you look at the first formula, you will see that the curvature of space-time is VERY small. Also, if you look at the first formula, you will see that the curvature of space-time cannot be negative, thus, time speed cannot be negative, thus, you cannot travel to the past.

 

@Dweller: definitely not mine.

[JG.]

Time travel can be done to the future. All you have to do is increase your speed and that would increase your relative mass' date=' thus changing the spatial curvature around you and time alongside it.

[spoiler=Einstein was smart'](curvature of space-time) = (mass-energy density) * 8 pi G / c4

 

Yes, c is the speed of light and G is the weight of the object in newtons.

 

(time speed)=(cosmological constant)*(1+(curvature of space-time))

 

By the way, if you look at the first formula, you will see that the curvature of space-time is VERY small. Also, if you look at the first formula, you will see that the curvature of space-time cannot be negative, thus, time speed cannot be negative, thus, you cannot travel to the past.

 

@Dweller: definitely not mine.

 

I did know that. But that could also cause massive problems. For example, if you met yourself in the future, since it already happened, he knew that you would arrive, but since he met himself before when he had gone to the future/present... Time paradox again.

 

And, we would to exceed the speed of light, which is not humanly possible at the current stage in technological evolution.

[Dweller of Parables]

How about we keep a constant mind set to get something done like time travel in our heads.

Wouldn't we eventually see ourselves come back to tell us?

 

So if we initiate the first step in thought, would we do it?

Bill and Ted did it.

[Scatty]

Time travel can be done to the future. All you have to do is increase your speed and that would increase your relative mass' date=' thus changing the spatial curvature around you and time alongside it.

[spoiler=Einstein was smart'](curvature of space-time) = (mass-energy density) * 8 pi G / c4

 

Yes, c is the speed of light and G is the weight of the object in newtons.

 

(time speed)=(cosmological constant)*(1+(curvature of space-time))

 

By the way, if you look at the first formula, you will see that the curvature of space-time is VERY small. Also, if you look at the first formula, you will see that the curvature of space-time cannot be negative, thus, time speed cannot be negative, thus, you cannot travel to the past.

 

@Dweller: definitely not mine.

 

I did know that. But that could also cause massive problems. For example, if you met yourself in the future, since it already happened, he knew that you would arrive, but since he met himself before when he had gone to the future/present... Time paradox again.

 

And, we would to exceed the speed of light, which is not humanly possible at the current stage in technological evolution.

 

1. You can't see yourself in the future because you travelled there! So you did not split between two persons, one going to the future and one remaining into the past. You won't meet yourself by any means.

 

2. You don't need to surpass the speed of light. 10% of it and the time would already pass twice faster for your.

 

 

Ok, just to make sure you understood, I will give an example for 1. Say you enter a future travel chamber. Say your brother is watching you enter. Say you stay there 5 minutes but everything else moved 60 minutes into the future. You exit the future travel chamber. Your brother tells you that it took too damn long. There is no copy of you running around. Why? Because there is no reason for one to exist!

[Dweller of Parables]

yeah, but what if we could split in to two?

[JG.]

Time travel can be done to the future. All you have to do is increase your speed and that would increase your relative mass' date=' thus changing the spatial curvature around you and time alongside it.

[spoiler=Einstein was smart'](curvature of space-time) = (mass-energy density) * 8 pi G / c4

 

Yes, c is the speed of light and G is the weight of the object in newtons.

 

(time speed)=(cosmological constant)*(1+(curvature of space-time))

 

By the way, if you look at the first formula, you will see that the curvature of space-time is VERY small. Also, if you look at the first formula, you will see that the curvature of space-time cannot be negative, thus, time speed cannot be negative, thus, you cannot travel to the past.

 

@Dweller: definitely not mine.

 

I did know that. But that could also cause massive problems. For example, if you met yourself in the future, since it already happened, he knew that you would arrive, but since he met himself before when he had gone to the future/present... Time paradox again.

 

And, we would to exceed the speed of light, which is not humanly possible at the current stage in technological evolution.

 

1. You can't see yourself in the future because you travelled there! So you did not split between two persons, one going to the future and one remaining into the past. You won't meet yourself by any means.

 

2. You don't need to surpass the speed of light. 10% of it and the time would already pass twice faster for your.

 

1.) Yes you would, because you came back to the present from where you left, so you continued living until you came to visit you again.

 

2.) 10% of light is still hideously fast.

[Dweller of Parables]

So we need to make a sun.

[Scatty]

Time travel can be done to the future. All you have to do is increase your speed and that would increase your relative mass' date=' thus changing the spatial curvature around you and time alongside it.

[spoiler=Einstein was smart'](curvature of space-time) = (mass-energy density) * 8 pi G / c4

 

Yes, c is the speed of light and G is the weight of the object in newtons.

 

(time speed)=(cosmological constant)*(1+(curvature of space-time))

 

By the way, if you look at the first formula, you will see that the curvature of space-time is VERY small. Also, if you look at the first formula, you will see that the curvature of space-time cannot be negative, thus, time speed cannot be negative, thus, you cannot travel to the past.

 

@Dweller: definitely not mine.

 

I did know that. But that could also cause massive problems. For example, if you met yourself in the future, since it already happened, he knew that you would arrive, but since he met himself before when he had gone to the future/present... Time paradox again.

 

And, we would to exceed the speed of light, which is not humanly possible at the current stage in technological evolution.

 

1. You can't see yourself in the future because you travelled there! So you did not split between two persons, one going to the future and one remaining into the past. You won't meet yourself by any means.

 

2. You don't need to surpass the speed of light. 10% of it and the time would already pass twice faster for your.

 

1.) Yes you would, because you came back to the present from where you left, so you continued living until you came to visit you again.

 

2.) 10% of light is still hideously fast.

 

1.) You don't come back to the present, because travelling backwards in time is impossible.

 

2.) Yes, but not impossible. We might not be able to do it now or in the forecoming 100 years, but it will be done far before 3000.

yeah' date=' but what if we could split in to two?

[/quote']

 

Why would we want to do that? I'm simply confused, there are already too many people on Earth, what would the use of clones be?

[JG.]

Time travel can be done to the future. All you have to do is increase your speed and that would increase your relative mass' date=' thus changing the spatial curvature around you and time alongside it.

[spoiler=Einstein was smart'](curvature of space-time) = (mass-energy density) * 8 pi G / c4

 

Yes, c is the speed of light and G is the weight of the object in newtons.

 

(time speed)=(cosmological constant)*(1+(curvature of space-time))

 

By the way, if you look at the first formula, you will see that the curvature of space-time is VERY small. Also, if you look at the first formula, you will see that the curvature of space-time cannot be negative, thus, time speed cannot be negative, thus, you cannot travel to the past.

 

@Dweller: definitely not mine.

 

I did know that. But that could also cause massive problems. For example, if you met yourself in the future, since it already happened, he knew that you would arrive, but since he met himself before when he had gone to the future/present... Time paradox again.

 

And, we would to exceed the speed of light, which is not humanly possible at the current stage in technological evolution.

 

1. You can't see yourself in the future because you travelled there! So you did not split between two persons, one going to the future and one remaining into the past. You won't meet yourself by any means.

 

2. You don't need to surpass the speed of light. 10% of it and the time would already pass twice faster for your.

 

1.) Yes you would, because you came back to the present from where you left, so you continued living until you came to visit you again.

 

2.) 10% of light is still hideously fast.

 

1.) You don't come back to the present, because travelling backwards in time is impossible.

 

2.) Yes, but not impossible. We might not be able to do it now or in the forecoming 100 years, but it will be done far before 3000.

 

1.) Fair point. Although there would still be 2 of you, since the other you came back to the future, but... You win. But here, are talking science fiction ;D But you win IRL =/

 

2.) They can already accelerate single particles to 50% the speed of light. So in 100 years, unless the earth get nuked, they should defo have made it =/

[Lemniscate]

I time travel all the time.

Whoop, just did...

 

 

 

But in all seriousness, I would say time travel sounds great, it may happen it may not. [/thread]

[Willieh]

Time travel is impossible, and it won't happen. Ever.

[Super Half Vamp Riku]

your a genius

[Aero~]

If you were to go back in time, it would be impossible for you to change anything, for if you did, you wouldn't've had to cgange it in the first place. In the situation where you would go back and kill your parents, that would be impossible, for you wouldn't be able to go back and kill them; you wouldn't have been born. Therefore, it is an impossible loophole.

[Willieh]

As great as time-travel would be... It's impossible.

 

How can you manipulate a force that isn't physically real?

[JG.]

If you were to go back in time' date=' it would be impossible for you to change anything, for if you did, you wouldn't've had to cgange it in the first place. In the situation where you would go back and kill your parents, that would be impossible, for you wouldn't be able to go back and kill them; you wouldn't have been born. Therefore, it is an impossible loophole.

[/quote']

 

Depends if yu live in Hollywood or the real world. But it would be possible, but the instant you kill one of them you would dissapear.

[Aero~]

If you were to go back in time' date=' it would be impossible for you to change anything, for if you did, you wouldn't've had to cgange it in the first place. In the situation where you would go back and kill your parents, that would be impossible, for you wouldn't be able to go back and kill them; you wouldn't have been born. Therefore, it is an impossible loophole.

[/quote']

 

Depends if yu live in Hollywood or the real world. But it would be possible, but the instant you kill one of them you would dissapear.

not to argue, but

@ boldetext: Therefore, you wouldn't have been able to do it, for when "real time" catches up, you would be dead.

EX: If i killed my parents in 2000, and the time machine came from 3000, I wouldn't have been alive to go back and kill them in 3000.

[Mehmani]

According to Doctor Who, light-speed travel is humanly possible by the year 2074.

 

Einstein was a brilliant man. He reminds me slightly of Bobby Fischer, but without the 9/11 conspiracys.

[Scatty]

Einstein was a brilliant man.

 

Yup, that's the point. If he said that travelling into the past is impossible and travelling into the future is dependent on your weight/speed but very small, then we can just admit that he is damn right with his (time speed)=(cosmological constant)*(1+(curvature of space-time)) thingy and call it a match, ok?

[Catman25]

*Time doesn't exist.*

[JG.]

Of course, that's why we age. Because it deson't exist. If it did exist, it would make us stay the same. Owait.

[Mehmani]

What if we put light in an Absolute Zero Chamber and inserted an atom of a different element into it. Theoretically, we could do the same with humans if we put a capsule with humans in it into a ball of light in a massive Absolute Zero Chamber then let the light loose? It could carry them!

[Scatty]

What if we put light in an Absolute Zero Chamber and inserted an atom of a different element into it. Theoretically' date=' we could do the same with humans if we put a capsule with humans in it into a ball of light in a massive Absolute Zero Chamber then let the light loose? It could carry them!

[/quote']

 

Common Sense says: if we put a human in an Absolute Zero Chamber his blood will freeze making shards of ice enter the heart and cut it open. The end.