Time Travel

g4 has one on every day.

What would you say about the likelihood of just viewing the past, not traveling to it or effecting it in any way?

What would you say about the likelihood of just viewing the past, not traveling to it or effecting it in any way?

Every time you look up at the stars, you already are.

Every time you look up at the stars, you already are.

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Beyond that, buy a video camera. Take video. Watch it, and you are looking at the past. Pictures, fossils, are all glimpses of things from the past.

Forward time travel is already possible. Just orbit a black hole for a bit at tremendous velocities and general relativity will put you into the future.

Backwards time travel probably isn't likely. Unless you believe in a universe-wide conspiracy theory, someone from the future would have already come back and told us.

"Down at the smallest of scales, smaller even than molecules, smaller than atoms, we get to a place called the quantum foam. This is where wormholes exist. Tiny tunnels or shortcuts through space and time constantly form, disappear, and reform within this quantum world. And they actually link two separate places and two different times."

The tunnels, unfortunately, are far too small for people to pass through -- just a billion-trillion-trillionths of a centimeter -- but physicists believe it may be possible to catch a wormhole and make it big enough for people, or spaceships, to enter, Hawking writes.

"Theoretically, a time tunnel or wormhole could do even more than take us to other planets. If both ends were in the same place, and separated by time instead of distance, a ship could fly in and come out still near Earth, but in the distant past. Maybe dinosaurs would witness the ship coming in for a landing," Hawking writes.

There is another way around it, but it's not time travel in the sense most people think of it.. It's string theory, and in particular a Multi-verse, instead of there being one Universe, there are an infinite amount of Universes, some completely different from what we've experienced in this one, some with only the most minute changes, in one you were never born, but your brothers and sisters were, your parents met in the exact same way, at the same exact time, got married the same, everything is the exact same except you never existed. With this Multi-verse instead of going back in time to change a certain event, you're simply jumping to a universe where that event never happened.

This exact same theory was written into an animated Justice League movie. It was Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths.

But one thing I noticed missing from your theory was, there is a single, "Prime" universe, that all other multiverses revolve around. But in Crisis on Two Earths, it was dealing with "Earth Prime", that all other universe's Earths were based from. If Earth Prime was destroyed, everything across every multiverse would cease to exist. I guess the same could be applied to the "Prime" universe theory.

Oh Jaerik, you are so inspirational!

*vomits*

lmao While light from distant stars that was emitted thousands of years ago is just now hitting us, to say that you are looking at the past is erroneous to say the least. Sure it sounds poetic though. It's like saying when you see a jet rip through the sky and a few minutes later after you see it pass, you then hear the sound of it passing, you are hearing the past. Not really though, lol.

Because string theory is a real thing that scientists in the real world have been working on. A movie will use this concept and other real scientific concepts and adjust it accordingly to suit their story.

Doesn't sound erroneous to me. You see the plane - it creeps along the sky - then all of a sudden you start hearing the plane. If it was in the "present" you'd hear the plane at the same time you saw it.

wow, a topic that stayed on topic for 5 pages on this forum.

That's GOT to be a record.

LOL's were had, as theory and real in the same sentence to describe something= oxymoron

Actually, all that means is that sound travels slower than light.

We constantly live a few nanoseconds in the past if you want to look at it from that perspective, as light takes some form of time to travel to our eyes, than a few more nanoseconds to be sent to our brains, then converted into the knowledge of what we are seeing. Nothing we experience in our lives from any of our senses is 'real time'

to our brains, then converted into the knowledge of what we are seeing. Nothing we experience in our lives from any of our senses is 'real time'
Funny how you explain my point there, yet still confuse the meaning of the word theory in the scientific world.

/shrugs

Doesn't sound erroneous to me. You see the plane - it creeps along the sky - then all of a sudden you start hearing the plane. If it was in the "present" you'd hear the plane at the same time you saw it.

Time is relative. If you don't believe time to be relative, then perhaps you should write a book on why it's erroneous and poetic to believe so.

With that logic then we are always viewing the past as it takes time for the senses to transmit to the brain and then more time for the brain to process those transmissions.

Actually, all that means is that sound travels slower than light.

We constantly live a few nanoseconds in the past if you want to look at it from that perspective, as light takes some form of time to travel to our eyes, than a few more nanoseconds to be sent to our brains, then converted into the knowledge of what we are seeing. Nothing we experience in our lives from any of our senses is 'real time'

I already stated this...

It's been proven that time is different outside the earth.

Every time you look up at the stars, you already are.

Your quote got messed up lol, don't feel like looking what was missed.

@Daemun

Before this goes any further my point was that Hollywood will grab concepts from science and twist them to suit their needs. That's all.

To me it seemed like the guy I was replying to was doing the reverse. That is he was telling someone that they missed the prime universe part of the theory he saw from a movie.

Surely you get what I meant now, right?

Hollywood introduced the prime universe things, not scientists.