End Of The Abyss Posted July 20, 2008 Report Share Posted July 20, 2008 Discussion: TIME TRAVEL Some people beilive Tachyons, small particles that travel at the speed of light, can travel through time. Do you think if humans could preserve these particles, they could build a time machine? I thought it was an interesting topic. What do think about Time Travel/Machines? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saturn of Elemia Posted July 20, 2008 Report Share Posted July 20, 2008 I do not like the idea of time travel. I read a short story called "A Sound of Thunder" in college that involved time travel. It was about a time traveling safari hunt that let you hunt dinosaurs that were already on the brink of death. Unfortunately, one of the characters stepped on a butterfly. This action altered the entire course of history. It was a really good story, but it changed my whole perspective on time travel. I cannot approve of time travel. The consequences would be far too great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silas Angel Posted July 20, 2008 Report Share Posted July 20, 2008 well then.. time travel.. umm, its a very confusing topic... well a lot of people believe that if you can go back in time, you could change something... but you can even if you could. and for this reason: You go back in time to stop you.. so you stop you from doin somethin and now that means that youv never done it.. well.. now you never went back in timeto stop yourself.. and blah blah blah blah.. paradox! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abstract [Atrocity] Posted July 20, 2008 Report Share Posted July 20, 2008 Time Travel... The mere thought of it is incomprehensible. Ho would the physics and mechanics of such a thing work? How would our affects on the past effect the future? How much energy would it need, resources, and so on? It's out of our grasp. Also, couldn't wanted terrorists and people like that flee to different times? Or go back in time and keep doing the same thing over? We'd better stop trying, we'd only be hitting our dead end stop sooner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silas Angel Posted July 20, 2008 Report Share Posted July 20, 2008 if anyone was to go back in time.. it was meant to be: what they do in the past will effect the future.. now it cant change it though.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HelioSpark Posted July 20, 2008 Report Share Posted July 20, 2008 time is such an abstract topic in itself, that I can barely even define Time Travel. The way I look at it, we are always travelling throught time. The machine you mentioned would just speed it up, or reverse it. Overall I doubt that it is even possible, but who knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyber Altair Posted July 20, 2008 Report Share Posted July 20, 2008 dumb idea is dumb...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Static Posted July 21, 2008 Report Share Posted July 21, 2008 We cannot. On the idea of the speed of light thing; When you travel in a car, you are doing the same thing, just on a much smaller scale. You are traveling one mile into the future per minute, rather than 1/6 of a mile per minute into the future that you would on a bike. Light does this at 186k miles per second. Also, it can only travel into the future, it cannot travel into the past. Wormholes are a completely different issue, and such a complicated issue should not be discussed without a couple professionals/people who have taken college physics to explain parts that I could not explain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodrun Posted July 21, 2008 Report Share Posted July 21, 2008 Ok, i have the answernow listen close, for we have not much time..a dear, a dear, a female dear.there it goes, there we go, there time gooeeesss...now we must sit, and wait, and wait, tick tock tick tock.. oh my dear, how long time as passed us byyyyyeeeeee... we must go, to and frow, here and there, there and here.brim up, brim down, shally low mighty good neighbor, my how time has done you fouuuuuull......dear friends, my dearest of them here.. i have some news, that shall fright you whiiiileee'for tetarist, there is no time, no time at all, we fall we fall, we fail again, and yet again. and we can keeeeeeep tryingggg, becuase totaluu good dear, there is no such thing as tiiimmmmmmeeh.so dont do crack, or wack, or wick, or dick, or *that guy you did last summer, in the mall, when you had crabs, and you were trying to take a piss, but all you really wanted to do was take a crap, but tht fat bulbber of man, was on your toilet and you coudlnt, and he smelled like shhhhhh....shinglesssssss* because, we cant, we cant, we cant time traveeeeeeellll... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yasu Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 We cannot. On the idea of the speed of light thing; When you travel in a car' date=' you are doing the same thing, just on a much smaller scale. You are traveling one mile into the future per minute, rather than 1/6 of a mile per minute into the future that you would on a bike. Light does this at 186k miles per second. Also,[b'] it can only travel into the future, it cannot travel into the past. [/b]Wormholes are a completely different issue, and such a complicated issue should not be discussed without a couple professionals/people who have taken college physics to explain parts that I could not explain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desu the Blue Nerd Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 well then.. time travel.. umm' date=' its a very confusing topic... well a lot of people believe that if you can go back in time, you could change something... but you can even if you could. and for this reason: You go back in time to stop you.. so you stop you from doin somethin and now that means that youv never done it.. well.. now you never went back in timeto stop yourself.. and blah blah blah blah.. paradox![/quote'] That is exactly what I think as well. I have my doubts about time travel but somehow if we did only go into the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flame Dragon Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 Time Travel makes to many paradoxes. For one if you were to go back in time, that would mean you were already their when the events you went back to were happening, meaning you can not change the past. However if you were to kill your own farther, your farther is unable give birth to you, so you can never go back in time, but if you could never go back in time how could you kill your farther. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willieh Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 We will never travel in time. It's simply impossible. Time isn't an object that can be ripped open; its a hypothetical term used to describe the distance in which our life passes. Sorry, but it's fun to pretend we will one day time travel. But I HIGHLY doubt we will EVER travel in time. It seems, theoritically speaking of course, impossible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atomix Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 It is impossible, nuff said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Static Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 Time is a perception of human's, a way they make sense of the energy that manifests the void. In actuality, in a realm devoid of energy, time does not exist. Resolve: We cannot travel into the past. Traveling into the future is nothing more than accelerating through the present, and is not technically "Time Travel." Case Closed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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