Cyberjester said:
Skoosh said:
Moving backwards in time has been theoretically impossible since Einstein. This is just a bit of experimentation confirming those hypotheses more. I get angry reading the comments on the one summary and here though from people that obviously have no scientific knowledge past high school level trying to say this is rubbish. As someone with a degree in physics, let me say his paper seems sound.
And to everyone that says "oh, scientific knowledge changes every day and we end up doing the impossible so I'm ignoring this" you're being just as bad as a creationist saying "evolution is just a theory, not really true."
Excellent point. And may I say you're sounding like an evolutionist who says that he quite definitely evolved from a monkey but please don't hit him because it's "evil".
Now that we're done with silly arguments, might I suggest you spend a bit more time learning? As the speed of light has not yet been broken, we can't say for certain that time travel is impossible. Physics as we know it stops working then. And remember that evolution is a theory. A good one mind, but still a theory. No evolutionist I've met will accept the possibilities that humans could have evolved separately from primates. Which is kind of funny given that we need at least two humans to reproduce (at a prolific rate), and thus experience genetic loss from the very start. Saying that we evolve into something better is spitting in the face of entropy. Makes more sense for the big bang (which ever in the series we're up to now) to have spawned creatures at the start. Which is possible given that after the previous "big crunch" there was another "big bang". What's that pseudo science (which could be ignorant given I know nothing about it) that claims a poison diluted to tens of thousandths will hold the previous pattern and thus be good for you?
Long ramble to say, no such thing as impossible, merely differing degrees of probability. Thus anyone who states "This cannot be" is a fool.
The speed of light can't be broken though. You would need an infinite amount of energy just to reach it. Look at your basics about special relativity. Because of mass?energy equivalence, the closer you get to the speed of light, the larger the mass, the more energy needed to accelerate further, which means the larger the mass, and so on. Also you do realise that the OP was referring to traveling BACKWARDS in time, right? It's commonly accepted we can go to the future in a way by slowing our own passage of time with extreme speeds.
Entropy is only for closed-systems. Earth isn't closed: we get energy from the sun.
The big bang spawned creatures at the start, what? Do you even know what the big bang is, or that there are about 10 different hypotheses about it right now? Also evolution has nothing to do with the origin of life, that's abiogenesis. Evolution just says how it became what it is today. I also don't think you understand what "theory" means in science. Earth orbits sun is a theory.
What does homeopathy have to do with anything? It's pseudo-science, quite obviously false, and completely unrelated to this topic.
Of course science does nothing but assign probabilities to things. When we have evidence pointing that something isn't so though, tons and tons of evidence, it's easier to say "impossible" instead of "99.99999999999% likely to not be so." Yes, new ideas come around, but until you can prove it, we don't care. It's like pointing to a stranger and saying he's a Nazi baby rapist. Sure, he could be, but he's innocent until proven guilty and what your suggesting is extremely unlikely.
