Do you think time travel will ever be possible?

[Octanejunkie]

Hmmm. If time travel were possible, what possible good could come from it? Disrupting the past could have grave consequences to what occurs in your own lifetime.
Just look at the problems Jean Claude Van Damme had in Time Cop!
Imagine if Rupert Murdoch travelled back in time. What on earth would the future hold for us then...
Going into the future could prove just as disasterous. Just imagine if the wrong person (Osama Bin Laden for example) got hold of the lottery numbers. He could have unlimited funds for his Western bothering extremists. Or he could get his grubby mits on cloning technology and have an unlimited army of suicide bombers... Frightning thought i'm sure you'll agree.
However, although the possibility of time travel could "destroy us all", i'm sure we'll keep trying. In the immortal words of the Terminator: "Its in your nature to destroy yourselves"

In Event Horizon. The ship had the ability to create its own black holes or something, in order to jump to other points in space/time instantly. Thats got to be worth a go hasn't it?
Just avoid coordinates for Hell though.
Besides, if Michael J Fox, and Christopher Lloyd can do it, how hard can it be.......?

[Gaz]

Originally Posted by 4v6

Got rakes of em in the lawn, now if i can just catch Mr W.Orm as he pops his head up.......

i don't know about worm holes, but i found a black hole yesterday.. or was that tomorrow that i found it?

anyway,.. heres where it turns up. i mean turned up.. i mean.. ermm. oh anyway heres the 'LHC' 'large (massive more like) Hadron Collider'. Scientists say they are looking for the ' Higgs boson.'

Some people also say it may even create a black hole. & other's just reckon its going to destroy the whole universe.

sound good to me!

[Phil Payne]

Originally Posted by Emjay

But the great scientific minds also predict the possibility of wormholes.

True. Except they're quantum effects subject to the Uncertainty Principle. You wouldn't get a spaceship into one, and if you did it wouldn't look the same when it came out.

[pimpdriver]

This thread wins the "longest resurrection time" award!!!

[krzracingcouk]

I wish someone would invent a time machine to get back the time have just spent (wasted at work) reading this

[Hanuman]

Originally Posted by krzracingcouk

I wish someone would invent a time machine to get back the time have just spent (wasted at work) reading this

Just ask your boss for the time back.

In my recent experience, British companies are at the backfront of time related technologies.
For instance. I've worked in engineering before (but not after), where some company managers have made projects last an eternity, and at the end, we haven't moved forwards. This is the time stands still principal. However, those who have studied management principals exclusively, are able to view this from a completely different perspective- ie lost time.

In most cases, we seem to have harnessed the ability to go backwards. A lot.
The one common factor though, is that time travel does not necessarily mean providing a second chance to get it right. As repeated cockups of the same nature abound. (forget about shooting Hitler. Get someone better than Tom Cruise to blow him up)

Want proof of time travel?

I know a bloke who seemingly keeps buying the same car. It's a time warp, surely...

[Phil Payne]

Originally Posted by pimpdriver

This thread wins the "longest resurrection time" award!!!

Odd. I didn't check the date of the previous post - but I assumed it was newish because it popped to the top of my "New Posts" search. Someone must have messed with it without actually posting.

[Hanuman]

Originally Posted by Phil Payne

Odd. I didn't check the date of the previous post - but I assumed it was newish because it popped to the top of my "New Posts" search. Someone must have messed with it without actually posting.

Nope.
You were 'abducted' by aliens*, and have 'lost' a fair chunk of time.



*could be any number of future or past government agencies. They thought processes alone mean they are alien to us.

[Phil Payne]

Originally Posted by Gaz

.. other's just reckon its going to destroy the whole universe.

If that happens, it's sad that it will happen so quickly.

Won't give me time to appreciate fully that the Swiss went first.

[moonwatcher]

Originally Posted by Emjay

as I see it...if our future selves can/could travel back in time they could not make contact with us. If they could make contact then potentially they could then alter the course of human history. Thus if they are able to alter the course of history, however small that alteration may be, then they would in effect be altering the destiny of themselves ever existing in a future world.

So if you could travel back in time..say to pop off one of your distant relatives, then by doing so (popping off great grandad) you would effectively put your self out of existence. You would never have existed.

So if you believe the earlier theory I posted, that UFO's are in fact future humans travelling back to visit us, this explains the reason why they never actually make contact with us. To do so would potentially open up the possibilities to alter the course of human history thus their own existence.

I think thats how it works.....................

Assuming time travel is possible,

If you travel back in time and pop off one of your distant relatives, and by doing so (popping off great grandad) you would effectively put your self out of existence. You would never have existed,

Then because you don't exist, you would not be able travel back in time and pop off one of your distant relatives, therefore you would exist and thus you would be able to travel back, then by doing so (popping off great grandad) you would effectively put your self out of existence.

Then because you don't exist, you would not be able travel back in time and pop off one of your distant relatives, therefore you would exist and thus you would be able to travel back, then by doing so (popping off great grandad) you would effectively put your self out of existence.

I could go on but it would get repetative,
as I said
I could go on but it would get repetative,