Physicist Definitively Rules Time Travel Impossible
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Yeah, seriously.gigastar said:
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....
He did a lot of work to find out something I already proved. I promised myself that if I am ever able to travel through time I will journey back to when I was ten and put a note on my nightstand. Since I never found the note I will never be able to travel back in time.
Duh.
Duh.
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.
Much like how your organs will explode if you go over 60 mph. Or how we can never NEVER break the sound barrier.
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*sigh*Diamondback One said:
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".
Definitive proof of my years old hypothesis. I'm just sorry it wasn't me who proved it.
Ego knife stabs heart... of ego.
Ego knife stabs heart... of ego.
thats what i thought, its not like hes travelled to the future to ask them is it.Spangles said:
have you never seen the family guy episode when stewy meets his older self...gabe12301 said:
but seriously who says we would notice.
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.
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.
Couldn't we travel to alternate universe's past and then travel to our universe's past from there?
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 said:
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.
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.
(Sorry I meant Plato, not Socrates, Socrates isn't related to science.)Sporky111 said:
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)
So uh...John Funk said:
An anime [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0872308/] beat him to the punch? Some world renowned physicist he is
