Einstein proved that time travel is possible. The problem however is that you cannot travel into the past.
One can only travel into the future and return into a time in the future that is not as far along as the actual present.
You got it bud...
Coming back from the future or traveling to another point in the past is much less likely, according to Cox.
Relating his theory to the popular British science fiction show "Doctor Who," Cox explained that the time-traveling Doctor would need to find a wormhole in order to return to the past. The theoretical bridge, or shortcut through space-time, proposed under Einstein's general-relativity theory has never been proven to exist. And, even if a wormhole were discovered or created, there's no telling whether humans could actually use it to travel through time.
Cox isn't the only one to theorize that a wormhole could allow time-travelers to travel backward in time. Earlier this year, astrophysicist Eric W. Davis of the EarthTech International Institute for Advanced Studies said that a wormhole would be the best option for back-in-time travel. But, Davis acknowledged, it would "take a Herculean effort to turn a wormhole into a time machine."
Not bad for someone who is functionally illiterate and has a low IQ.
Seriously? That qualifies as good to you? Proving my point w/ nearly every post.
(02-06-2014 04:07 PM)smn1256 Wrote: So if you go back in time, how do you pick the place where you want to go unless it's the exact place where you started? And let's say it's June 1 and you want to go back 300 years and arrive on December 1, what guarantees do you have that it will be in the place you started at? I mean, the Earth has moved 6 months along it's orbit and you'd be landing in dead space until the Earth comes around and crashes into you. So it's not just time travel, it's location, location, location.
Great question. If I traveled back to 1500, I sure as sh*t wouldn't want to be in Newport News, VA.
And why not? If you went back to 1492, you could sit on the shoreline and ask Columbus what took him so long, and let him know the world is round
(02-06-2014 04:06 PM)LSU04_08 Wrote: Serious question. Where do you think all those missing planes and ships go that have disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle?
Bottom of the ocean.
I don't doubt that there is some sort of weird magnetic field that can occur there (it is documented in the Southern Atlantic ocean where the magnetic field is weaker) and confused pilots or boat captains.
It's been said that "UFO"s have been seen diving into that area of the ocean and then wizzing away in a flash.
(02-06-2014 03:57 PM)Lord Stanley Wrote: Based on what I understand about time travel physics, which really is nothing, I still think time travel will be possible one day, perhaps in one of two ways.
You can only travel as far back as to the day the machine was made, or
You time travel back to a different dimension and timeline.
A different dimension would be badass. I forgot who first said it, but there are infinite universes where every possibility and scenario is played out somewhere. There's a universe for everything you want.
It would be interesting no doubt, but I'd sure like to learn some real events that happened, AS they happened... Like meeting Washington and some other past figures, even gladiators like Spartacus in 60's BC.
(02-06-2014 04:07 PM)smn1256 Wrote: So if you go back in time, how do you pick the place where you want to go unless it's the exact place where you started? And let's say it's June 1 and you want to go back 300 years and arrive on December 1, what guarantees do you have that it will be in the place you started at? I mean, the Earth has moved 6 months along it's orbit and you'd be landing in dead space until the Earth comes around and crashes into you. So it's not just time travel, it's location, location, location.
YES!
One of the great issues I have w/ most time travel stories.
I did enjoy Back to the Future, and a few others. But generally I hate time travel stories, especially in comic books. They almost always blow. (No, I will not be going to see Days of Future Past)
I would imagine that if we ever gained the know-how to time travel (if that's even possible), we'd also be able to bend space so you "land" at your intended spot and not in the middle of a vacuum. Unless a programmer misses a mundane detail like a decimal point somewhere and you find yourself in deep space.
Kind of like, instead of 2-dimensional geographic coordinates, it'd be setting 3-dimensional coordinates of some sort on your time travel machine's GPS.
(02-06-2014 04:16 PM)EverRespect Wrote: When I was a kid, I used to have recurring dreams of living in a different house and different neighborhood, but there was something really strange and deja vu about it. I knew where everything was in and out of the house and I swear I had been there before, but could never put my finger on it. It was unbelievably real.
I've done that too, even recently. I had a dream about an old house on a hill in the distance in front a huge pit that looked like it was lined with red clay... I saw that exact house, detail for detail, when I took my first trip to Tennessee. I almost ran off the road doing a triple take.
(02-06-2014 04:06 PM)LSU04_08 Wrote: Serious question. Where do you think all those missing planes and ships go that have disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle?
Bottom of the ocean.
I don't doubt that there is some sort of weird magnetic field that can occur there (it is documented in the Southern Atlantic ocean where the magnetic field is weaker) and confused pilots or boat captains.
It's been said that "UFO"s have been seen diving into that area of the ocean and then wizzing away in a flash.
Maybe the Bermuda Triangle is actually a wormhole created by future humans and the UFO's we are seeing are people from the future.
(02-06-2014 03:53 PM)LSU04_08 Wrote: I would do anything besides sell my soul to Satan to be able to go back to the days of pirates...
That was not an easy life.
Depends on your lot in life. Imagine going back to like the 1500s and taking a modern cache of weapons with you. You'd be living the life of Henry VIII pretty quickly. That would be the ideal scenario.
I've taken it you never read Crichton's Timeline novel?
No, his are were a little too heavy for my liking... I enjoy lighter reading. Always enjoyed the movies based on his novels though.
Didn't Marky Mark hit a worm hole in the Planet of the Apes from 2000? He ended up finding his crew and his ship hundreds or thousands of years later.
(02-06-2014 03:54 PM)mlb Wrote: Ok, in all seriousness... you just need to have a time storm in the middle of the pacific. Then you can be transported back to 1941 and stop the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Serious question. Where do you think all those missing planes and ships go that have disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle?
Methane gas bubbles seeping up from the bottom of the ocean. If there are enough of them there's isn't enough water for ships to float on and they sink.
To where? They've never been found. It's not just that they sunk or crashed. There's been no traces of them even being there. That's the mystery.
(02-06-2014 04:07 PM)smn1256 Wrote: So if you go back in time, how do you pick the place where you want to go unless it's the exact place where you started? And let's say it's June 1 and you want to go back 300 years and arrive on December 1, what guarantees do you have that it will be in the place you started at? I mean, the Earth has moved 6 months along it's orbit and you'd be landing in dead space until the Earth comes around and crashes into you. So it's not just time travel, it's location, location, location.
Great question. If I traveled back to 1500, I sure as sh*t wouldn't want to be in Newport News, VA.
And why not? If you went back to 1492, you could sit on the shoreline and ask Columbus what took him so long, and let him know the world is round
(02-06-2014 04:06 PM)LSU04_08 Wrote: Serious question. Where do you think all those missing planes and ships go that have disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle?
Bottom of the ocean.
I don't doubt that there is some sort of weird magnetic field that can occur there (it is documented in the Southern Atlantic ocean where the magnetic field is weaker) and confused pilots or boat captains.
It's been said that "UFO"s have been seen diving into that area of the ocean and then wizzing away in a flash.
Maybe the Bermuda Triangle is actually a wormhole created by future humans and the UFO's we are seeing are people from the future.
Laughing at us for thinking it was outer space aliens for years and years? I could see that.
(02-06-2014 03:57 PM)Lord Stanley Wrote: Based on what I understand about time travel physics, which really is nothing, I still think time travel will be possible one day, perhaps in one of two ways.
You can only travel as far back as to the day the machine was made, or
You time travel back to a different dimension and timeline.
A different dimension would be badass. I forgot who first said it, but there are infinite universes where every possibility and scenario is played out somewhere. There's a universe for everything you want.
You're thinking of this
But this was truly the saddest Simpsons episode of them all
(02-06-2014 04:07 PM)smn1256 Wrote: So if you go back in time, how do you pick the place where you want to go unless it's the exact place where you started? And let's say it's June 1 and you want to go back 300 years and arrive on December 1, what guarantees do you have that it will be in the place you started at? I mean, the Earth has moved 6 months along it's orbit and you'd be landing in dead space until the Earth comes around and crashes into you. So it's not just time travel, it's location, location, location.
YES!
One of the great issues I have w/ most time travel stories.
I did enjoy Back to the Future, and a few others. But generally I hate time travel stories, especially in comic books. They almost always blow. (No, I will not be going to see Days of Future Past)
I would imagine that if we ever gained the know-how to time travel (if that's even possible), we'd also be able to bend space so you "land" at your intended spot and not in the middle of a vacuum. Unless a programmer misses a mundane detail like a decimal point somewhere and you find yourself in deep space.
Kind of like, instead of 2-dimensional geographic coordinates, it'd be setting 3-dimensional coordinates of some sort on your time travel machine's GPS.
(02-06-2014 04:07 PM)smn1256 Wrote: So if you go back in time, how do you pick the place where you want to go unless it's the exact place where you started? And let's say it's June 1 and you want to go back 300 years and arrive on December 1, what guarantees do you have that it will be in the place you started at? I mean, the Earth has moved 6 months along it's orbit and you'd be landing in dead space until the Earth comes around and crashes into you. So it's not just time travel, it's location, location, location.
Great question. If I traveled back to 1500, I sure as sh*t wouldn't want to be in Newport News, VA.
And why not? If you went back to 1492, you could sit on the shoreline and ask Columbus what took him so long, and let him know the world is round
Did Columbus speak English?
Bloody hell, of course he did!
I do suppose with the weapons cache and immunity to the mosquito born illness that killed off the early settlers, I could make the best of it as ruler of the indians. Could probably gain power quickly by shooting the chief in the kneecap and screwing his daughter right in front of him.
(02-06-2014 03:54 PM)mlb Wrote: Ok, in all seriousness... you just need to have a time storm in the middle of the pacific. Then you can be transported back to 1941 and stop the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Serious question. Where do you think all those missing planes and ships go that have disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle?
Methane gas bubbles seeping up from the bottom of the ocean. If there are enough of them there's isn't enough water for ships to float on and they sink.
To where? They've never been found. It's not just that they sunk or crashed. There's been no traces of them even being there. That's the mystery.
Since it was methane, maybe the ships blew up. To tell you the truth, I have no idea what goes on in that neck of the woods.
(02-06-2014 04:37 PM)smn1256 Wrote: If time travel was really possible, I'd be happy to go back 10 years and say good bye to loved ones who are no longer with us....and buy Google stock.
I'd go back to the 80's with the same idea in mind, minus the Google stock, I'd hump one of the Bangles though, she'd be all mine after I showed her my time machine.
(02-06-2014 04:08 PM)EverRespect Wrote: Great question. If I traveled back to 1500, I sure as sh*t wouldn't want to be in Newport News, VA.
And why not? If you went back to 1492, you could sit on the shoreline and ask Columbus what took him so long, and let him know the world is round
Did Columbus speak English?
Bloody hell, of course he did!
I do suppose with the weapons cache and immunity to the mosquito born illness that killed off the early settlers, I could make the best of it as ruler of the indians. Could probably gain power quickly by shooting the chief in the kneecap and screwing his daughter right in front of him.
Dammit, I laughed out loud and I'm at work... Nice job lol...
(02-06-2014 03:54 PM)mlb Wrote: Ok, in all seriousness... you just need to have a time storm in the middle of the pacific. Then you can be transported back to 1941 and stop the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Serious question. Where do you think all those missing planes and ships go that have disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle?
Methane gas bubbles seeping up from the bottom of the ocean. If there are enough of them there's isn't enough water for ships to float on and they sink.
To where? They've never been found. It's not just that they sunk or crashed. There's been no traces of them even being there. That's the mystery.
Since it was methane, maybe the ships blew up. To tell you the truth, I have no idea what goes on in that neck of the woods.
I don't think anybody does, brother. That's why its one of history's most famous mysteries.
(02-06-2014 04:07 PM)smn1256 Wrote: I mean, the Earth has moved 6 months along it's orbit and you'd be landing in dead space until the Earth comes around and crashes into you. So it's not just time travel, it's location, location, location.
YES!
One of the great issues I have w/ most time travel stories.
Hah! Time travelers would appear in the cold, hard, vacuum of space. And die. Unless they've got space suits, then they float around for a while. Then die.
(02-06-2014 04:16 PM)LSU04_08 Wrote: I've thought about that too... A smart phone, some machine guns, high powered long range rifles, etc...
What would you do with a smart phone in the past. Play Candy Crush until the battery ran out?
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