Time Travel

[Eyclonus]

Ever seen a film called A Roll of Thunder (I think).
The simpsons ripped it off for that halloween episode where Homer travels backwards and forwards through time with the toaster..
The film basically points out that by squashing a butterfly they return to the present and find that English is a phonetic language and a senator/congressman revealed to be a sociopathic madman is now president of Earth.

 

[HomeAliveIn45]

Nope, Einstein said time travel is impossible, and everything he says is right, so you won't be going anywhere.

(By the way my source on that was my friend so if Einstein never said that its not my fault.)

Carl Sagan said it wasn't possible too, but Steven Hawking said it was possible, now THAT'S a paradox.

 

[Break]

We all are away that Teleporters=Forward Time Travel, yes?
It was shown in Half-Life 2: Gordon and Alyx going from Nova Prospekt time-traveled one week into the future. If you delay the teleport for say... 200 years, whablammooo! and you're somewhere you've never been, right where you're standing!

That's as much time travel as going to sleep for the night warps you to the morning after.

 

[crabman]

Go back and kill your ancestors!
If they're not alive, then you will never have been born!
But then you wouldn't be alive to kill your ancestors!
But then your ancestors wouldn't die!
So you can go back and kill your ancestors!

Ahh, that always makes my head hurt. Now DO IT!

 

[werepossum]

Nope, Einstein said time travel is impossible, and everything he says is right, so you won't be going anywhere.

(By the way my source on that was my friend so if Einstein never said that its not my fault.)

Carl Sagan said it wasn't possible too, but Steven Hawking said it was possible, now THAT'S a paradox.

I don't believe time exists as a dimension. Instead, I think it's merely a mathematically useful concept of quantifying the linear change in the universe. Thus, no time travel, which is rather a plus since it reduces the danger to our world.

On the negative side, being in substantial disagreement with Steven Hawking about physics radically increases the chance that I'm an idiot educated beyond my intelligence.