Time Travellers are real? or were in 1928...
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Kind of. Like a guy before me said, while I don't understand the exact mechanics behind it. The faster you go, the slower the time around you becomes. From your perception, everything around you will go super fast. Just then slow down and there you go, in the future. While you were only traveling super fast for a few hours or even seconds from your perspective as time is moving horrendously slowly, the time around you has proceeded as normal.arc1991 said:
And 3 if she has travelled back in time, who's she going to be calling anyway?Jedi Sasquatch said:
Yes, if one person did it. However, all the people who would ever try to stop it would appear within the same, short timeframe, so we would suddenly be drowned in people from the future. Besides, they wouldn't come around 1939: They would rather just kill Hitler as a child (Or persuade that art academy to accept him).arc1991 said:
You know, I really wish it was a time traveler. That would be so cool. If time travel methods did exist and were feasible, it would literally be the most effective method of observing the past in the universe.
It's not a time traveler, but that would be cool.
I've actually tried explaining this one to someone, and of course the Holocaust was the example used. It's almost naive to think that you could travel back in time and stop Hitler because you are not any more effective a killer than the 20+ people who failed during his reign. Plus, you can't prove that at least one of those failed attempts wasn't made by a time traveler.
It's not a time traveler, but that would be cool.
You have an interesting perspective on the topic. Very refreshing.zfactor said:
I've actually tried explaining this one to someone, and of course the Holocaust was the example used. It's almost naive to think that you could travel back in time and stop Hitler because you are not any more effective a killer than the 20+ people who failed during his reign. Plus, you can't prove that at least one of those failed attempts wasn't made by a time traveler.
You have that right; if you were to travel at exactly the speed of light, you could become infinitely massive. At that point, it would require an infinite amount of energy to propel you forward. As the universe contains a finite amount of energy, light-speed-travel is impossible.x EvilErmine x said:
acctually it does.zfactor said:
that is why traveling faster then light is impossible under general relitivity.
at the Speed of Light, Light itself has mass.
FTL travel is some what paradoxical in itself as at the speed of light energy itself has mass. so trying to accelerate yourself faster by simply putting more energy into pushing you only gets you to have a higher mass.
There's a couple problems with your explanation.zfactor said:
First, the energy requirement to travel at the speed of light is infinite. Therefore, it is absolutely not possible to travel any faster to create the time reversal you speak of.
Second, and probably most important, is that this "-t" value you speak of is only relative to the time traveler. It is therefore absolutely ludicrous to offer a value for time that is before the time traveler was born, or even to a point before the time traveler exceeded the speed of light. Creating such a paradox requires the existence of a parallel universe where the time traveler was already in motion in reverse time, or where time moves in reverse relative to the known universe.
However, if you look beneath the atomic level - into the minor quantum interactions every atom is based on, modern physics suggests that these parallel universes may actually exist. Mathematical models for black holes also suggest they may contain holograms of the entire universe - like a snapshot taken at the time it was created. If it was possible to survive the trip into one of these snapshots, and return to earth, then traveling into the past without a parallel universe is possible, and it would work as a 'jump' into the past.
EDIT: looks like there's enough people giving you a hard time about this. Ignore me.
Thischenry said:
I'm sure the next time I walk by a camera picking my nose, people in the future will analyze the footage and say "Look there! A Time Traveler, nose activated communication devices weren't invented until 2071!" and thus the thread will be reborn and history will repeat itself.
One thing that doesn't change with the ages (unlike technology) is peoples gullibility.
This is all getting awfully Red Alertish...zfactor said:
OT: There's probably a really simply answer to all this... It's more than likely a hearing aid or an itchy ear.