Time Travel

Indigo · 08-13-2008, 06:13 PM

Movies have for a very long time been fascinated with time travel. I for one have been kept up for hours thinking about the possibility after watching Back to the Future. The movie, Time Machine starring Guy Pearce, was mindboggling. Quantum theories actually suggest that time travel is possible with the study on blackholes and wormholes. There is that dilemma being explored by these movies that if one travels through time, one's existence will be in danger when changing history. Here's what I think. There are parallel universes. I can go to the past without having an effect on the present because these universes are of different dimensions, or in a different space. Does that make sense?

Truthed · 08-14-2008, 10:03 AM

What about Time Cop? lol

pixie · 08-14-2008, 06:57 PM

If time travel were real and I could do it, I'd go back in time to observe myself as a kid and knock some sense into me while at it. I'd investigate the JFK assassination; I'd see a stage play starring Elizabeth Taylor and I'd ride a dinosaur. Going to the future, I will not snoop into my life. I'd rather it unfold on its own. I will try to prevent tragedies/accidents from happening.
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snitch · 08-14-2008, 08:38 PM

Suspension of disbelief...okay, you're in the past, you will not want to attraction attention to yourself for fear of being locked up in a psychiatric hospital. Fast forward to the future, no one will believe you because they'll think that you had just read a history book or an old magazine and are making things up..hence, also a lunatic. Therefore, people who come from a different time could be living among us and we'd not know it.
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SmokingMan · 08-14-2008, 11:54 PM

As far as we know there is no such thing as traveling back in time. The past is the past, what's done is done, and we can't go back there or bring the past back. However, light-speed theory, a discipline of Quantum mechanics introduced by Albert Einstein implies that if one were to travel at the speed of light, the rest of existance would age more rapidly than the one traveling at light speed. For example, if you travel at the speed of light for 4 hours, you would only be 4 hours older, but the rest of the world would have aged 10 years or so in your 4 hours, which is basically traveling forward in time. This can be seen in the Disney movie, "Flight of the Navigator". It's just a movie, but that aspect of it is based on an actual scientific theory. The problem is, we have no way yet to bring a person up to the speed of light, so the theory cannot be tested. Even if we could, we can't fathom what the speed of light would do to a human, or if the theory would even work. It should, but we don't know. A lot of science is just theories that are based on theories that are based on theories and so on.

Adriana · 08-16-2008, 07:16 AM

The concept of time travel is based on some pretty creative wishful thinking. Who doesn't want to go back in time and do things differently? It may be that this will never be a reality and that we'd only get to play with this in the movies or in books.

Gen_X · 08-21-2008, 05:35 PM

So far, no one has successfully demonstrated time travel, but I believe no one has been able to rule it out either. The science is there. There are scientists who continue to seek evidence to Einstein's special theory of relativity, which states that time runs slow for a moving object. While time travel sounds like science fiction and goes against common sense, I'm prepared to be astounded by a new discovery.
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majika · 08-24-2008, 03:49 AM

I'd like to keep an open mind on time travel. I hope this doesn't sound stupid and it isn't a good comparison but centuries ago, how many truths now were considered impossible? Air travel, landing on the moon, the roundness of the earth -- weren't these all laughable once upon a time?
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lilbit · 08-29-2008, 07:07 AM

I would love to go back in time. I`d knock some sense into me too lolol. It would be awesome to be able to go back and stop a tragedy from happening. I like that idea.

mandiees · 08-29-2008, 07:28 AM

I think the concept of time travel definitely exists, but I think we are unable to see/think of it because the constraints we place on our own minds with regard to living in specific dimensions. I think we will get to a place where we can explore this more, but not until there is some sort of shift in our way of thinking.

08-13-2008, 06:13 PM	#1
Indigo Junior Investigator Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 9	Time Travel Movies have for a very long time been fascinated with time travel. I for one have been kept up for hours thinking about the possibility after watching Back to the Future. The movie, Time Machine starring Guy Pearce, was mindboggling. Quantum theories actually suggest that time travel is possible with the study on blackholes and wormholes. There is that dilemma being explored by these movies that if one travels through time, one's existence will be in danger when changing history. Here's what I think. There are parallel universes. I can go to the past without having an effect on the present because these universes are of different dimensions, or in a different space. Does that make sense?

08-14-2008, 10:03 AM	#2
Truthed Administrator Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 1,079	What about Time Cop? lol __________________ "You Want To Believe" http://www.truthed.com truthed@truthed.com

08-14-2008, 06:57 PM	#3
pixie Junior Investigator Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 11	If time travel were real and I could do it, I'd go back in time to observe myself as a kid and knock some sense into me while at it. I'd investigate the JFK assassination; I'd see a stage play starring Elizabeth Taylor and I'd ride a dinosaur. Going to the future, I will not snoop into my life. I'd rather it unfold on its own. I will try to prevent tragedies/accidents from happening. ________ Honda CMX250C Last edited by pixie; 01-23-2011 at 03:36 PM.

08-14-2008, 08:38 PM	#4
snitch Junior Investigator Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 12	Suspension of disbelief...okay, you're in the past, you will not want to attraction attention to yourself for fear of being locked up in a psychiatric hospital. Fast forward to the future, no one will believe you because they'll think that you had just read a history book or an old magazine and are making things up..hence, also a lunatic. Therefore, people who come from a different time could be living among us and we'd not know it. ________ vapir oxygen Last edited by snitch; 01-25-2011 at 09:41 PM.

08-21-2008, 05:35 PM	#7
Gen_X Junior Investigator Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 10	So far, no one has successfully demonstrated time travel, but I believe no one has been able to rule it out either. The science is there. There are scientists who continue to seek evidence to Einstein's special theory of relativity, which states that time runs slow for a moving object. While time travel sounds like science fiction and goes against common sense, I'm prepared to be astounded by a new discovery. ________ FREE IKEA GIFT CARDS Last edited by Gen_X; 05-12-2011 at 12:35 AM.

08-14-2008, 11:54 PM	#5
SmokingMan Junior Investigator Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 48	As far as we know there is no such thing as traveling back in time. The past is the past, what's done is done, and we can't go back there or bring the past back. However, light-speed theory, a discipline of Quantum mechanics introduced by Albert Einstein implies that if one were to travel at the speed of light, the rest of existance would age more rapidly than the one traveling at light speed. For example, if you travel at the speed of light for 4 hours, you would only be 4 hours older, but the rest of the world would have aged 10 years or so in your 4 hours, which is basically traveling forward in time. This can be seen in the Disney movie, "Flight of the Navigator". It's just a movie, but that aspect of it is based on an actual scientific theory. The problem is, we have no way yet to bring a person up to the speed of light, so the theory cannot be tested. Even if we could, we can't fathom what the speed of light would do to a human, or if the theory would even work. It should, but we don't know. A lot of science is just theories that are based on theories that are based on theories and so on.

08-16-2008, 07:16 AM	#6
Adriana Junior Investigator Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 9	The concept of time travel is based on some pretty creative wishful thinking. Who doesn't want to go back in time and do things differently? It may be that this will never be a reality and that we'd only get to play with this in the movies or in books.

08-24-2008, 03:49 AM	#8
majika Junior Investigator Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 12	I'd like to keep an open mind on time travel. I hope this doesn't sound stupid and it isn't a good comparison but centuries ago, how many truths now were considered impossible? Air travel, landing on the moon, the roundness of the earth -- weren't these all laughable once upon a time? ________ Harley-Davidson FXDB Last edited by majika; 01-25-2011 at 10:38 PM.

08-29-2008, 07:07 AM	#9
lilbit Junior Investigator Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 54	I would love to go back in time. I`d knock some sense into me too lolol. It would be awesome to be able to go back and stop a tragedy from happening. I like that idea.

08-29-2008, 07:28 AM	#10
mandiees Junior Investigator Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 70	I think the concept of time travel definitely exists, but I think we are unable to see/think of it because the constraints we place on our own minds with regard to living in specific dimensions. I think we will get to a place where we can explore this more, but not until there is some sort of shift in our way of thinking. __________________ http://startupfiance.com

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