Poll: Do you believe in time travel?

[forsinain42]

I used to believe in time travel. That was several years from now mind...

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

Well whether time travel exists I see only two ways of it working out. First way is that you already traveled through time (you were in the past already) so you can't really change anything. Or you can change things, which could be totally worse. Because then through some accident you could make it so that you never existed or time travel wasn't invent when you use it thus creating some paradox which could do something really bad to reality.

Plus there's that whole "travel through time, but not space" aspect that would be troublesome. You could travel into an empty void or into a space which was already occupied. Although if you can manipulate time, I would imagine it wouldn't be that hard to manipulate space as well.

I like Harry Turtledove's idea of cross-time travel. You can't travel back and forth through time, but you can travel sideways, meaning you can travel to alternate timelines. That would be fun and would skip all those problems I mentioned earlier.

 

[Fursnake]

I flat out don't believe time travel is possible...and quite frankly sick of seeing Star Trek fall back on it time and time again as a plot device.

 

[mattttherman3]

The Vulcan Science Institute has disproven the theory of time travel.

 

[Rockchimp69]

If it was possible, we would have seen some by now

I was a time traveller I wouldn't go back in time and screw up the future by making myself obvious.. Also your assuming that our time is even worth visiting.

I think of it like this:
has the past ever changed? No? Then obviously time travel is either impossible or never discovered.

Prove to us that the past has never been changed.

 

[Rockchimp69]

The Vulcan Science Institute has disproven the theory of time travel.

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[Rockchimp69]

I flat out don't believe time travel is possible...and quite frankly sick of seeing Star Trek fall back on it time and time again as a plot device.

Rule number 1, there's point in having a discussion thread if you don't argue why you think that. Although I totally agree about the Star Trek thing, the only decent time travel plots were the DS9 Trials and Tribilations episode and that one from TNG where they find data's head.

I think its possalbe but at the same time i think if people could go back they would have killed Hitler as a child or mebay people how will time travel can't chage things.

Personally I wouldn't kill Hitler because if the holocaust hadn't happened then it might happen again further forward in the future when Superior weapons and technology could bring about the apocalypse. Imagine if Hitler had Hydrogen bombs!

The Vulcan Science Institute has disproven the theory of time travel.

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Edit: AHH i'm double posting in my own thread!

 

[Talshere]

No, of course it isn't. If you were to time travel to 6:15 AM on the 5th of December, 1926 then at that moment, you would both be there and not be there, creating a paradox similar to dividing by zero.

There are no specific equations in our current understanding of the universe that explicitly state time travel is impossible. In fact there are several rather promising theories that are allowed within these theories. It is important to understand however that currently we use different functions of math to explain different phenomenon we have witnessed. No one theory can yet encompass all of our understanding, so until we have this we can know nothing for sure.


In short:

There is currently no reason to believe that time travel is impossible.

 

[Mr. Google]

As the subject says, post if you believe that time travel is/could be possible or not, and why.
A few rules for this thread:
Firstly your reason has to be either scientific, logical or a gut feeling. It can't be something retarded like "time travel is just in movies so it can't be real!!!"
And secondly, no insulting other people's views as there is no definate answer for now.

Personally I think that as time has been observed to warp or "dialate" in situations such as fast moving atomic clocks in orbit showing different times to those on earth, it may also be able to be affected in other ways, e.g. Bending it or folding it to send a body to a different time.

But that's just me what are you views?

There is a definite answer- it is possible.

The reason those atomic clocks are different in space than on Earth is gravity. If a human were to orbit a black hole for 10 years, when they came back, they would be 150 years in the future. The Cosmonaut that was on MIR for 18 months is 0.048 seconds in the future. Gravity warps time. Traveling backwards is not possible in our 11 dimension universe, only forwards.

11??? Id really love for you to name off all of those hahaha

 

[Hazzaslagga]

it is entirely possible to travel forwards in time, sort of (though technically you just make time go slower). just run really fast and you'll see what i mean. However to go back in time requires you to travel faster than the speed of light which is not possible acording to some smart person because you gain mass.

 

[CaptainCrunch]

Yes. However, only in the case where you can go back no further than when the time machine was turned on. Assuming it's never turned off, as well.

 

[Cerridwen]

Until the Tardis itself lands on my doorstep, no.

If it ever *were* to become possible, though, I think it could only be a one-way trip forward.

 

[DragonChi]

If this is a poll, where is it?

and yes I do believe in time travel, but in a non paradoxical fashion. Meaning..if u go back in time, you go into a separate parallel time. which is why we never see anyone from the future come back to our time.

 

[Exo-Mike]

I don't need to believe in time travel

I received a temporal fine from the time police for endangering causality

If I try to build a time machine again I face 365 consecutive life sentances and believe me when the time police threaten that they know how to inforce a life sentance!

Heed my warning - dont mess with causality

 

[RUINER ACTUAL]

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There is a definite answer- it is possible.

The reason those atomic clocks are different in space than on Earth is gravity. If a human were to orbit a black hole for 10 years, when they came back, they would be 150 years in the future. The Cosmonaut that was on MIR for 18 months is 0.048 seconds in the future. Gravity warps time. Traveling backwards is not possible in our 11 dimension universe, only forwards.

11??? Id really love for you to name off all of those hahaha

Sorry, I'm not a physicist. lol. Length, Width, Depth, and Time are the ones we can interact on.

 

[Terminal Blue]

Not in the 'back to the future sense', it creates paradoxes which are imposssible to resolve.

Such as: if you tried to change anything in the past, it would already have been changed, so you didn't go back to change it because it happened, or more traditionally if you kill your grandmother before she gave birth to your mother you were never born, which means you never couldn't have gone back to kill your grandmother.

Some models of the universe (and bear in mind my model of physics is pretty old now and mostly comes from books designed for kids) postulate a kind of constant division, so what you could do under those models is go back in time and then proceed along a different path, without affecting your original timeline. It raises problems though, presumably you would already exist in the timeline you entered (unless you changed things so you never existed) so there'd be two copies of you, while in your old timeline you would have suddenly vanished.

 

[nofear220]

But that's just me what are you views?

Time travel forward in time IS possible (we just need to create a vehicle which can travel very close to the speed of light), but backward is much too paradoxical which makes it inconceivable

 

[Andothul]

Nothing is impossible only varying degrees of improbable,
and i would say Time travel is on the far end of the improbable spectrum.

 

[TheNewDemoman]

Maybe...

It would require massive amounts of energy to punch a hole in the space-time contiunum, and be able to control it so you could appear where you wanted to.

And in my opinion, we can't travel into the future because the future hasn't happened yet.

 

[TheNewDemoman]

Not in the 'back to the future sense', it creates paradoxes which are imposssible to resolve.

Such as: if you tried to change anything in the past, it would already have been changed, so you didn't go back to change it because it happened, or more traditionally if you kill your grandmother before she gave birth to your mother you were never born, which means you never couldn't have gone back to kill your grandmother.

Some models of the universe (and bear in mind my model of physics is pretty old now and mostly comes from books designed for kids) postulate a kind of constant division, so what you could do under those models is go back in time and then proceed along a different path, without affecting your original timeline. It raises problems though, presumably you would already exist in the timeline you entered (unless you changed things so you never existed) so there'd be two copies of you, while in your old timeline you would have suddenly vanished.

True.

This leads to the question, have we already (in the future?) created time travel and averted possible disatorous scenarios.

For example maybe Germany kept Einstien and they made the nuclear bomb first, so they changed that.