No time travel say scientists

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by babureddy, Jul 26, 2011.

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Your opinion about time travel

  1. Sometime in future, we will be able to achieve it

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  2. Not going to happen

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  1. #1
    Time travel will remain a sci-fi fantasy, according to scientists who claim to have proved that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light.

    My opinion is that this is one thing that will always remain a dream or may be people will learn how to go to the future and not to the past. The reason is that, assuming that sometime in future if at all people are successful, we should have seen somebody who had visited us from future, but till date there is no such record. I may be 99.99% wrong, but that is what I feel.

    What do you guys say about this?
     
    babureddy, Jul 26, 2011 IP
  2. crabfoot

    crabfoot Active Member

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    The real truth is that nobody can be definite about the matter until scientists can properly explain magnetism and gravity. They do a pretty good job of explaining what light is as electromagnetic radiation, but the magnetic component is still hard for them to describe.

    Maybe they should ask the fishes, and build a large haddock collider.
     
    crabfoot, Jul 26, 2011 IP
  3. Vicbowling

    Vicbowling Peon

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    Stephen Hawking stated that in theory, travel into the future may be possible...of course we are always limited by the speed of light. But if you were to orbit a black hole where time-space warps, you can effectively travel very fast (practicalities aside).

    Interestingly he also stated that travel to the past in certainly unlikley because of a causality feedback loop. In much the same way that a microphone picks up the sound from the loud speaker through the mic and sends it back through the speakers ad nauseum.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1269288/STEPHEN-HAWKING-How-build-time-machine.html

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1270531/Stephen-Hawking-backs-possibility-time-travel-millions-years-future.html
     
    Vicbowling, Jul 26, 2011 IP
  4. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #4
    Scientists also proved the world was flat and they a human couldn't travel faster than the speed of sound. :)
     
    digitalpoint, Jul 26, 2011 IP
  5. Project Mobius

    Project Mobius Peon

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    just because they have proven that's not possible doesn't mean there's no other way to do time travel
     
    Project Mobius, Jul 26, 2011 IP
  6. The Webby

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    Going to future is not a big deal, we already have enough technology for that, its called 'Patience'..

    With every passing second we step into the future.
     
    The Webby, Jul 26, 2011 IP
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    When a object travels at the speed of light, its weight goes down to 0. If ever it would go higher, the weight of this object would be negative, which is physically impossible.
    However, there is a current theory that we could modify the space between 2 objects by modifying the space itself with a huge source of energy instead of going to the object. It would be like bringing the think to us by deforming the space between those objects. Just like 2 spots on a paper sheet. Just bend the paper and the distance between the spots is reduced.

    If ever we could go in the pas, we would be in a different time-space, so we could not see people from the past.
     
    HostRadical, Jul 26, 2011 IP
  8. Spoiltdiva

    Spoiltdiva Acclaimed Member

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    Travel to the future is an impossiblity by virtue of the fact that the future hasn't happened yet.You can't enter a reality that isn't there to enter.Going back in time is also impossible as it no longer exists.The only reality is now.People like to fantasize about going to the future because they want to escape the reality of the now.They like to fantasize about going back in time because it's predicatable and safe because they know the outcome,it's all frivolity.
     
    Spoiltdiva, Jul 26, 2011 IP