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It's possible. I was reading in a science book about how it's possible to travel into the future. But I hope we never discover how to do it.

Ruth wrote: "It's possible. I was reading in a science book about how it's possible to travel into the future. But I hope we never discover how to do it."

It is possible to travel into the future for example if one person was to go into space (far away space) for ten years of his time and then comes back, it will be more than ten years in the earth time so they will come back to find all their friends have aged beyond ten years. At least that's what I'm told by my friends who understand physics.

Sadly However it is not possible to travel back in time, which is a shame as if there is any direction I would like to travel in time it is backwards and o to the past, oh well.

AS to whether there are time travelers among us, no sadly not. Maybe one day! I do like the time travel stories of the butterfly effect it is a concept that allows us to see that if we go into the past to change our mistake it could have an even greater consequence.

H99 wrote: "Lia wrote: "Would be cool to go to the future, to see how far we've advanced :)"

Yes, it would. BOOKS OF THE FUTURE!"

Go back in time and get some first edition classics.

I don't think we should ever travel in time. Imagine all of the people who would try to change history. If people knew what was going to happen, imagine how much chaos there would be.

Elaney wrote: "I don't think we should ever travel in time. Imagine all of the people who would try to change history. If people knew what was going to happen, imagine how much chaos there would be."

It would be the butterfly effect, someone would go back to the beginning and stand on lets say a butterfly, then go back to the future and everything has changed, all due to the butterfly being squished. This symbolizes that even a small change in the past will lead to a big change, imagine someone stopping something big like Pompeii!

But imagine Hitler winning World War II. Or the Americans losing the Revolutionary War.

But think about how confusing it would be. Everyone trying to change something or fixing something. History was meant to happen the way it did. We are not meant to meddle with it in any way.

I know. I just wanted to respond to it.

Time travel would be cool...but time travelers could also drastically change the future...(think of Back to the Future).

Changing history could be very bad.

I love reading books about time travel, I am obsessed with the concept, but I hope it never, ever is invented. The world would end quite quickly.

No time travel for me. Too many confusing paradoxes. Not to mention I'd probably commit suicide if I was omniscient. Too many bad things.

H99 wrote: "What about just SEEING into the past and the future? That could also have huge consequences."

For sure.

I might like to see the past, but I don't necessarily want to know my future...

I would love to time travel. Past and future, that is like my dream. But I am too afraid of messing something up and for sure the world ending as soon as the technology was introduced because of people changing the past for their purposes.

H99 wrote: "What about just SEEING into the past and the future? That could also have huge consequences."

I wouldn't mind just seeing the past and future. You would gain a lot of first hand knowledge without messing with history

Billy wrote: "H99 wrote: "What about just SEEING into the past and the future? That could also have huge consequences."

I wouldn't mind just seeing the past and future. You would gain a lot of first hand knowle..."

Really, reeeeeeally small things can mess with history.

Marie wrote: "Billy wrote: "H99 wrote: "What about just SEEING into the past and the future? That could also have huge consequences."

I wouldn't mind just seeing the past and future. You would gain a lot of fir..."

Exactly...which is why I would just want to see it. Not interacting with anything...just watch.

Oh yes. Well that would be very nice. Because like, what if you just being somewhere ruined everything? Like if some girl sees you, instantly falls in love with you, can't stop thinking about you, never marries, never has kids, and so therefore, for instance, Steve Jobs is never born as she was his ancestor. Even just being there could ruin a lot of things.

Marie wrote: "Oh yes. Well that would be very nice. Because like, what if you just being somewhere ruined everything? Like if some girl sees you, instantly falls in love with you, can't stop thinking about you, ..."

I just hate it when girls instantly fall in love with me. Happens so often haha.

And that reminds me of Back to the Future when Marty's own mother fell in love with him....

Marie wrote: "Oh yes. Well that would be very nice. Because like, what if you just being somewhere ruined everything? Like if some girl sees you, instantly falls in love with you, can't stop thinking about you, ..."

And we wouldn't want to risk Steve Jobs not being around! That would suck

Billy wrote: "Marie wrote: "Oh yes. Well that would be very nice. Because like, what if you just being somewhere ruined everything? Like if some girl sees you, instantly falls in love with you, can't stop think..."

Oh yeah...good point. =)

Good point.

It's possible, but then, being in two places at two different times might be impossible.

@Almira Well maybe in order to just see, you could be invisible and not be able to touch other people. So you wouldn't be where you were, but actually in that time, just invisible. Or maybe there could be something that could allow your mind to see that time period while you stay in one place.

@Kaylee Yup. Terrorists or someone just as bad could get a hold of it and instantly start the apocalypse. Who knows, maybe the human race wouldn't even last until 2013 if the world ended in the 1900's.

ok so i opened this thread fully xpecting ppl to go on about physics and Einstien's thoery of relativety.. but no.

So i will talk bout it
according to Einstien's thoery of relativety, time travel is possible. In his thoery, the space and time and fabricated into one another. ((there are 4 Dimensions;;; 3 Dimensions of space, and the 4th Dimension of time))...So mass affects this continuum of space and time. The mass of Earth affects this space-time-thingy, hence if you compare the clocks on Earth to the clocks in the international space station, there is about 200th of a second difference... So those clocks are specialised to fit Earth time... or sumfin.

It is possible to go into the future but not into the past... According to some sources. ALSO if one can travel faster than the speed of light (speed also afects space-time-thingy) then time travel into the future is possible.


PLUS (this just a new thoery): when two black holes are coming into collision with each other, objects near them are affected and warped, and can travel back in time....

Sasha Herondale wrote: "ok so i opened this thread fully xpecting ppl to go on about physics and Einstien's thoery of relativety.. but no.

So i will talk bout it
according to Einstien's thoery of relativety, time travel ..."

I've watched Stephen Hawking's episode in discovery channel and it very much explained just what you've said.

It's possible to travel in the future but not in the past.

ShilvaH wrote: "Sasha Herondale wrote: "ok so i opened this thread fully xpecting ppl to go on about physics and Einstien's thoery of relativety.. but no.

So i will talk bout it
according to Einstien's thoery of ..."

yeh accroding to Einstein atleast.

Hence ther cannot be this dilemma of a grandfather paradox or time paradox since u cannot travel back in the past anyways.
And evn if there is a way to travel in the past, then u wudnt have the paradox problem because of the Novikov-Self-consistency principle.

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This is really interesting! But I'm sad because :( well...not being able to travel into the past! I don't really care about the future but I would really like into the past. :'( Then again there's always that new, two black holes colliding theory.

Marie wrote: "This is really interesting! But I'm sad because :( well...not being able to travel into the past! I don't really care about the future but I would really like into the past. :'( Then again there's ..."

oh yes. With the gravitational lensing, or gravity waves.

Yup so i guess that way time travel to the past could happen....

BUT needs more research!