Physicist Definitively Rules Time Travel Impossible

[Drakhir]

Ow, I was just preparing my TARDIS.

 

[Ranooth]

I'll go grab Doc Brown

 

[Tony2077]

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

 

[Shadow-Phoenix]

Yeah.... but we can dream, right?

Oh, and be Doctor Who.

I'll always see Dr Who as my favorite time traveller even though i like Back to the Future a lot.

 

[RA92]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.

 

[Fr]anc[is]

Spoiler: I REJECT YOUR REALITY AND SUBSTITUTE MY OWN!

 

[Twilight_guy]

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?

 

[HerbertTheHamster]

Sooooo... Instead of traveling through the fourth dimension, we might be able to sidestep through the dimension above?

goddamned magnets

 

[Andronicus]

When time travel eventually does become possible, I'm going to go back in time and pour eggs all down his face.

You know, for the irony of it all.

 

[Rattler5150]

I still want a tardis,,
with the medical bay from JasonX
and a star trek replicator

so there...

 

[SideburnsPuppy]

Nothing is impossible when you imagine it! That's what being a scientist is all about!

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Lies. Science will never explain MAGIC TIME TRAVEL!

*continues with alchemy research*

 

[Lancer873]

How on earth could anyone get access to that sort of stuff at this day and age?
... Unless... Could it be??? HE'S a time traveller!!!

OT: Yeh, I'm not really surprised.

 

[McMullen]

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 too know about this branch of physics, right now?

"Phycicist thinks time travel is probably impossible based on all this sciencing" is a less grabbing headline. He either is certain he is right or certain no one will prove him wrong while he is alive... or this strand of divergent time.

Or just talking out of his arse to get his 15.

Money is tight these days, I'm willing to bet a lot of scientists are fuzzing research data to sound more earth shattering to secure grants.

You've obviously never applied for a grant. No one's going to give you money unless you can show that you know what you're doing, and if you try to get a grant with falsified data, I'm pretty sure that counts as fraud. At that point, no one will even listen to you, even after you get out of jail.

The only grant-givers that I know of who would be willing to take your word for something are the ones funding "scientists" who try to prove the earth is flat, 6,000 years old, or not warming/warming up on its own.

Despite our portrayal in Hollywood and the news, sensational claims are not the way we work. In fact, the more sensational and out there your idea is, the harder it's going to be to pursue it and gain acceptance for it, even if it turns out to be right in the end.