Do you think in the future we will have the technology to travel in time?

I am not going to try to explain to you that a banana is called a banana because someone decided it was so. You can figure it out.

 

Yes, we did.

 

Maybe I shoulda' put a little winky face on that post....

 

They say that if time travel is possible in the future, then why hasn't someone travelled from the future to now, or the past to tell us it is possible?

There are two possible explanations for this. One is that when you travel in time you also enter a new parallel reality, maybe even create one. Maybe we are creating a new parallel reality/parallel realities all the time as we move forward in time linearly.

There is also the theory that mankind may have the potential to invent time travel in the future, but unfortunately destroys himself and the entire planet out of carelessness and ignorance before we could get there.

This opens then the interesting possibility that a race of beings far far into the distant future will advance technologically way beyond us, but will be totally oblivious to the fact that we ever existed and therefore just wont think to come and visit us.

 

I've been studying Time for 3 decades.. And to answer the questions above would take weeks of talking.. Time is not an easy subject.

You can go forward in the slow time machine.. but to go back requires a tippler engine.
Something centuries beyond our technology.

Only time dilation has been proven by experiment so far. The 'slow time' machine.

Movies like terminator 1 to 4 and the SCC have peeps flicking back and forward over decades like a carnival ride.
Right

 

^^go on.....

 

i don't have a watch

 

I seen this on the histroy channel. during WW2 the Natzi scientiests were working on time travel..Strangely at the close of the war those scientests were shot..Whatever they learned, if they learned anything they took to the grave..

 

I personally don't think it's possible. The past no longer exists and the future doesn't exist yet, there is only the present.

If it were possible I would like to see something like you could see and hear the event you traveled to, but you couldn't touch anything and the people in that time were unaware of your presence, therefore you couldn't affect the outcome. You could find out what really happened at JFK's assassination, or what actually happened to Amelia Earhart and Jimmy Hoffa, etc. Or for entertainment you could be at Woodstock, sitting in a recliner 30 feet from the stage. Endless possibilities!

 

john titor agrees with you :willy_nilly:

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread61544/pg1

we won't develop technology to go back in time, at least not in teh classical sense.......... but going backwards isn't the point :mickey:

 

Yes. And i hope by then i am dead, because i'm certain that the human race will abuse it and end up destroying everything. If anything, i'd rather have people go in the future, not the past.

 

Oz

Tiror i'll look up.. never heard of him so obviously my research is scattered.
[PS another variant 'opinions are like assholes .. everyone has one']

newo

yes there is only the present.. but that present depends on your velocity relative to 'c'
The pesent is mutable. If you live on earth that is your present.. If you were on a starship moving at 95 % lightspeed. You present would not match your present if you were on earth. time would 'pass' at a reduced rate.
The fundamental objection to this is not that it cannot be.. But that humans have a hard time understanding it.
I do not.
Relativity is NOT JUST perception . It is A part of the Material universe.
Time passes at a variable rate depending on circumstance/ It is plastic.

That such IS.. is 1/2 of the 80% validitity i give to reality being directed.
Such just does not appear from chaos.

Occam

 

I have heard people say people from the future have already come here (John titor being one) It definetly is an interesting thing to think about!

 

have not read him when i do. i'll coment

 

So there is nothing but the present, but the present is variable, unevenly distributed, or relative.

If there is this variation of present, how do we distinguish one present from another?

Does time pass or does it accumulate?