Time Travel: How Do You Think It Works?

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Permalink Reply by Lab Rat on June 1, 2009 at 6:30pm

I second that.

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Permalink Reply by Chig Champa on June 1, 2009 at 9:27pm

I agree, Primer's probably is the best form of time travel ever presented in a film.

If only the movie itself were any good.

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Permalink Reply by Mike on June 1, 2009 at 9:28pm

It's true the movie is awful, but the time travel was neat-o.

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Permalink Reply by Chilly on June 1, 2009 at 12:54pm

If time travel is possible then someone would have came from the future to tell us.

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Permalink Reply by supermanx1 on June 1, 2009 at 1:17pm

oh they did, they are just considered nutcases and magicians

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Permalink Reply by Timmy Cupcakes on June 1, 2009 at 1:19pm

Ah yes, haven't you seen 12 Monkeys?

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Permalink Reply by supermanx1 on June 1, 2009 at 6:13pm

oh yes. it was based on a true story, right?

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Permalink Reply by Subliminal St8. on June 1, 2009 at 7:52pm

Time travel is only possible with worm holes, but since worm hole have such a great vacuum effect it would devour you into dust and plus all the exotic material that it's needed to create a worm hole it's nearly impossible to do so. But it can be done! All those ufo people claim to see are actually time travelers of our future but some how they will never land or visit us because to them we are just a bunch of neanderthals and we won't be mentally prepared to even comprehend them !!!!

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Permalink Reply by The Eyeball Kid on June 5, 2009 at 12:38pm

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Permalink Reply by Pumpkin Matt on June 5, 2009 at 2:07pm

I think that once you arrive in the past you change it completely because you add your own and the time machines matter to that past world and once you change the past you change the future. So you could never return to the same future you came from. The effects of the newly added matter to the environment would be minimal in the grand scale but you may have completely changed the future in every way you can percieve.

I think that even the act of you travelling into the past could have an effect on everything, even if you stayed there for a microsecond everything could change.

Scenario: You go to the past and you pull a leaf off a tree, in time some events put in place originally by that leaf's presence in that exact spot do not come to pass eg: A fly cannot land on it and has to land only a few inches away, in the eyeline of a lizard, said lizard eats the fly changing both their futures forever. The fly does not live on to engage in every other action and therefore shape time.

Even if the lizard didn't eat it the abscence of that leaf would monumentally change every event the fly participates in and if at some point that fly or anything it ever was to interact with affected the life of a human it would completely change everything (actually it wouldn't even have to interact with a human we are largely insignificant). Even if you don't touch any leaves even if you don't even step outside the machine some trace left from your millisecond of presence changes every following event, ever.

To say that we are a product of our time is a gross understatement, we are every facet of our time. Even things happening thousands of lightyears away affect us every millisecond. Everything that happens, ever has both the potential to end everything and to change everything.

If you like the world you live in now even remotely a time machine is a bad idea

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Permalink Reply by Lynchy on June 20, 2009 at 9:37am

Ok, let's face it, we're obviously never going to get technology that allows us to travel back into the past. Now I'll be honest, I'm no science geek, so this explanation won't sound altogether too convincing, but if we ever developed technology to travel back in time, we would probably have come to this day and age, and we would've seen someone come back already, so yeah.

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Permalink Reply by Meddle on June 22, 2009 at 10:02am

For time travel to be possible it would have to violate every known law of physics.

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