Mal12345
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I hold that if backward time travel to the same universe is possible, then the present would be what it is out of iteration. All of the backward time travel that has happened.. well, has happened, and thus backward time travel affects any events, including backward time travel, that'll happen. Bam, spacetime.
Doesn't go a long way in solving time travel paradoxes, but it helps me sleep at night.
I think it will never happen
Yeah, I still need to figure that one out. Experientially, if possible.Even if you did travel back in time and try to kill you great-grandfather, something would prevent this.
As we approach the speed of light, time slows down, so that at the speed of light, time stops. This means that a light photon leaves the Sun at exactly the same time as it reaches the Earth. So for the light photon, no time elapses on its journey form the Sun to the Earth.
This is counter-intuitive for us because we only experience time from our point of view not from the point of view of a photon travelling at the speed of light.
So asking whether we can travel back in time is the naive and intuitive question, limited by our point of view, our own limited experience of time.
And asking whether we can travel back in time is parochial and childlike.
COOL! So if photons were intelligent, we could see all of time and space at once?
The rest of the universe would have to be going infinitely fast, and the photon would be frozen in time (Timeless, unaging as it sped through the universe at the speed of light).
I write Sci-Fi. We writers botch the details sometimes, so thank you for clarifying.What he told about time slowing down when approaching the speed of light and time stopping when moving at the speed of light isnt really true. Time is nothing but a movement of something in relation to something else and light has the fastest speed. If you go beyond the edges of the universe(where light havent gotten yet), thats where time doesent exist(is at zero) because there is nothing moving in relation to anything.
What he is saying about this time not moving for the light and that for it its the same moment it leaves the sun as it is when it hits the earth, is based on studies showing that particles are decaying slower than they should when they move fast enough. But this time stopping for them is just a hypothesis that really has no meaning for anything. The thing is that if you take an atom for example, there is stuff "spinning inside of it", and if you make it move at the speed of light one of the things would need to move faster than the speed of light for the spin to actually continue, but because its impossible to move faster than the speed of light, the spin slows down the closer you get to the speed of light. It doesent mean that the time will stop for the atom, it just means that it doesent spin and thus does not decay and is sort of frozen, but because the atom(or photon in the case of light) is still moving in relation to everything else, the time doesent really stop and the speed of time is not zero. All that stuff about being able to see through time or all space is just people imagination going wild and no, its not possible either. If you move at the speed of light, your eyes dont work until you slow down.
Never say never! After all, [MENTION=3325]Mole[/MENTION] was tempbanned and a lot of us thought that would never happen either.
Maybe Islamophobia.huh? what? what! dear Mole tempbanned? well i guess it is possible - in an infinite universe everything has a probability of one - but in his universe? how did this ... happen?
Yeah, I still need to figure that one out. Experientially, if possible.
The past is not a location like Italy or the grocery store that you could travel to if only the proper route were open. The past consists of memories, echoes, and afterimages, as well as rust and wrinkles. That's it. If there is actually some location where a duplicate of the past universe exists (as far as anything can be a genuine duplicate) it's a very strange fact of reality for which there is currently zero evidence. Another way of getting to the past would be reconstructing it, which, if done on any appreciable level with any appreciable degree of fidelity, would probably require technology billions of years in advance of ours.
On the other hand, I do think the present shapes the past, just as the past shapes the present. That isn't the same thing as time travel, though, and it generally manifests itself in extremely mundane ways.
Maybe Islamophobia.