Physicist Definitively Rules Time Travel Impossible

DustyDrB

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Lol. One of the tags is bummer. I love those little touches on articles.

Thanks for at least keeping the dream alive for me to kill the Hitler of Oz.
 

Gennadios

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Halfway competent physicists were saying the same thing for years. The only ones saying it was theoretically possible were working with hack theories and equations to begin with.
 

Wilbot666

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hurricanejbb said:
Of course time travel is impossible. Everyone knows the Langoliers eat the past.
Haha beautiful, I'd forgotten about the Langoliers. Well played!
 

Tony2077

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the thing about time travel is if it was ever possible we'd most likely see evidence show up some where. i don't think they'd never make mistakes
 

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Android2137 said:
Raiyan 1.0 said:
I like the idea of alternate realities. We'll fuck up their timelines, but keep our one pristine. ;)
What's stopping them from doing the same to us?
Dammit!

Now we gotta create an Interdimentional Defence Initiative.

I smell sitcom!
 

Fire Daemon

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Yeah, but it kind of is possible to travel through time. If you get into a Spaceship that can reach even 0.1c and shoot around space for a bit then the time of travel is going to be much less then the time observed on Earth.

You all remember Gliese 581 g, right? To fly a ship there based on current technology it will appear to take 200 years, but from an observer within the ship it will only take 10. Travelling there and back will jump you ahead by 400 years Earth Time, while you only age 20. Supposedly, I haven't done the math myself yet, but it seems to work.

So it is possible to travel forward in time.

No doubt Smolyaniov knows this, and the article is horribly misconstrued to appeal to most Escapists.
 

Android2137

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Raiyan 1.0 said:
Android2137 said:
Raiyan 1.0 said:
I like the idea of alternate realities. We'll fuck up their timelines, but keep our one pristine. ;)
What's stopping them from doing the same to us?
Dammit!

Now we gotta create an Interdimentional Defence Initiative.

I smell sitcom!
Really? I smell sci-fi action game/tv show/movie.
 

KalosCast

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I think most of us with a firm grip on reality have already come to terms with this, as well as FTL travel, being impossible.
 

Svenparty

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Nothing is impossible! Not if you believe in it. That's what being a scientist is all about!-Professor Farnsworth


I once saw a documentary about a time travelling Deloreon that debunks this theory entirely.
 

008Zulu_v1legacy

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Whenever someone says something is impossible, they are usually interrupted by someone doing it.

I reckon he has invented time travel, but is keeping it a secret because he wants to retain a monopoly on it.
 

SilverHammerMan

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Dupeo said:
Uh, we DO have at least one time traveler who decided to reveal himself. John Titor. Look him up.
Or we have one troll with a flair for the dramatic. Besides that, his claim was that he was from an alternate universe, thus keeping with this scientist's statements.
 

Twilight_guy

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Wait what about relativity and quantum entanglement? I know its not real time travel just screwing with frames of reference but that's naming convention right?