Physicist Definitively Rules Time Travel Impossible

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

Yes, impossible.

Much like how your organs will explode if you go over 60 mph. Or how we can never NEVER break the sound barrier.

 

[gabe12301]

I guess that is true. If time travel was possible there would probably be hundreds of people from the future walking around right now.

 

[TiefBlau]

The man is a FOOL!
If we listened to everyone who said "That's impossible" we never would have left the cave.

Think of all the "impossibles" out there... Broadcast energy, x-rays, manned flight, space travel, sailing around the world, the Earth revolving around the SUN!

Wasn't it Christopher Reeve who said "So many of our DREAMS at first seem Impossible, then they seem Improbable, and then when we Summon the Will, they soon become Inevitable."

Oh! About Hitler... How do WE know That's not how Hitler died?

REMEMBER The only reason the Germans surrendered was because their leader was found DEAD with a bullet in his brain.

If that hadn't happened... They would have fought to the last man.

Hahahaha, Impossible...

That word is funny to me...

people will look back at this thread and laugh when we're eating dinosaur burgers

[HEADING=1]Dont lose hope![/HEADING]

Science updates theories on a regular basis.

All it will take is some new, previously undetectable something or a mad sub-theory to turn out to be right and it could happen again.

Yeah, seriously.

Wasn't there an article on the Escapist not long ago about a 12 year old disproving the Big Bang Theory?

And doesn't this no-time-travel theory rely on the Big Bang Theory working?

So if the 12 year old kid is right, then time travel is back on the table.

I'm just saying....

It's impossible because it can't be done just now. Who says his proofs are irrefutable?

Is he trying to say that we know all there is to know about this branch of physics, right now?

Yes, impossible.

Much like how your organs will explode if you go over 60 mph. Or how we can never NEVER break the sound barrier.

Anyone who claims to be a scientists but believes in absolutes such as impossibility rather than plausibility are frauds and / or idiots.

There is no way to state something is outright impossible when we have yet to expand to other planets, or galaxies for that matter. Just because something applies here in the Milky Way does not mean it'll apply every where else

*sigh*

This is why we can't have nice things like common sense or the scientific method.

He says it's impossible in the same way one might say that propelling oneself into the sky by urinating is impossible. Yes, someday science may find one pants-shittingly different perspective on it, but it would be contrary to the overwhelming amount of evidence we have today.

Every time someone uses the word "impossible", some asshole has to pipe up, "YOU DON'T KNOW THAT." No, I guess I don't, hypothetical retard. I don't know that I'm in the third dimension or that the sky is blue or that the wavelength I ascribe to certain colors are the same for each person. It's just that an abundance of physical evidence and inductive reasoning point me towards this conclusion in so overwhelming a fashion that it's natural to assume that time travel is impossible. More natural than assuming that the underdog in a baseball team will lose, more natural than assuming that we won't have flying cars, more natural than believing that aliens exist on other planets, and more natural than anything else you naturally assume is "unlikely" as opposed to "impossible".

 

[Drake_Dercon]

Definitive proof of my years old hypothesis. I'm just sorry it wasn't me who proved it.

Ego knife stabs heart... of ego.

 

[CardinalPiggles]

It's impossible because it can't be done just now. Who says his proofs are irrefutable?

Is he trying to say that we know all there is to know about this branch of physics, right now?

thats what i thought, its not like hes travelled to the future to ask them is it.

 

[CardinalPiggles]

I guess that is true. If time travel was possible there would probably be hundreds of people from the future walking around right now.

have you never seen the family guy episode when stewy meets his older self...

but seriously who says we would notice.

 

[Jormala]

Ever heard of the "grandfather paradox"?

 

[rutger5000]

I find that assumption rather arrogant. No scientist should ever claim something is definitely impossible, or at least not a physicist (and they should shut up if they aren't). Once can only claim that the moddel for the universe that is the most used at this moment has no room for a certain phenomonan (such as time travel). They could very well claim that the current moddel the universe doesn't allow time travel, but that doesn't mean it's impossible, just that we can't conceive it to be possible.

 

[Sporky111]

I don't see why everyone automatically thinks "kill Hitler" when time travel comes up. There are much more productive things that could be done. I'd personally go back to some time before the middle ages and start fucking with the Catholic Church. We'll see what the world would be like by now without them stunting scientific progress.

 

[spectrenihlus]

Couldn't we travel to alternate universe's past and then travel to our universe's past from there?

 

[rutger5000]

I don't see why everyone automatically thinks "kill Hitler" when time travel comes up. There are much more productive things that could be done. I'd personally go back to some time before the middle ages and start fucking with the Catholic Church. We'll see what the world would be like by now without them stunting scientific progress.

Kill Plato, believe me no man has harmed science more then he has. Had the guy not existed we would have been roughly 2000 years further then we are now.

 

[Sporky111]

I don't see why everyone automatically thinks "kill Hitler" when time travel comes up. There are much more productive things that could be done. I'd personally go back to some time before the middle ages and start fucking with the Catholic Church. We'll see what the world would be like by now without them stunting scientific progress.

Kill Socrates, believe me no man has harmed science more then he has. Had the guy not existed we would have been roughly 2000 years further then we are now.

I don't know anything about him aside from a few quotations. What makes you say that?

 

[Snake Plissken]

Of course time travel is impossible. Everyone knows the Langoliers eat the past.

Haha beautiful, I'd forgotten about the Langoliers. Well played!

You probably forgot about it because "Langoliers" is retarded.

 

[Frotality]

time travel in a stable loop might be out, but who really wants to fuck with our timeline? multiverse-esque timelines are still a possibility, and ruining some other dimension's timeline and being able to safely come back to your own has WAY more potential.

whos to say there arent multiverses that happen to be exactly like ours but in a different point of time? in that regard, the only (new) setback would be that you have to find the 'verse you want to go to instead of just punching a date into the delorian.

of course forward time travel has always been easy, all you have to do is...absolutely nothing. if you want to speed up the process, just start running REALLY REALLY fast.

 

[rutger5000]

I don't see why everyone automatically thinks "kill Hitler" when time travel comes up. There are much more productive things that could be done. I'd personally go back to some time before the middle ages and start fucking with the Catholic Church. We'll see what the world would be like by now without them stunting scientific progress.

Kill Socrates, believe me no man has harmed science more then he has. Had the guy not existed we would have been roughly 2000 years further then we are now.

I don't know anything about him aside from a few quotations. What makes you say that?

(Sorry I meant Plato, not Socrates, Socrates isn't related to science.)
Before Plato the Greeks had already began looking for explaination for the world around them without using Gods. Instead of religion they began using reason and observation, Socrates changed that. Even though he hardly used Gods in his explinations, he did cause a huge step beckwards. He decided that observations that contradicted his theories were false. This rather arrogant idea caused him to make absurd theories (speed of a falling object is only dependent on it's mass). All in all one crazy mans ideas aren't that harmfull, but the ideas stuck for two milineas and so did his argument of observations that contradict theory were false. The Catholic Curch was of course all to happy to coppy that statement, and no scientific progress was made until that idea was dropped. (That's basically until Galieo showed up)

 

[Elementlmage]

It's kind of a bummer, isn't it? There's good news, though: Smolyaniov's experiment showed that while light can't be bent to go to its former location, it could go to somewhere like its former location - in another dimension.

So uh...

An anime [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0872308/] beat him to the punch? Some world renowned physicist he is

 

[Elementlmage]

I don't see why everyone automatically thinks "kill Hitler" when time travel comes up. There are much more productive things that could be done. I'd personally go back to some time before the middle ages and start fucking with the Catholic Church. We'll see what the world would be like by now without them stunting scientific progress.

Kill Socrates, believe me no man has harmed science more then he has. Had the guy not existed we would have been roughly 2000 years further then we are now.

Doood, what did So-crates do?


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[Jabberwock xeno]

ANYTHING with time travel is just geuesses now.

His words mean just as much as anyone else who says it is.