Time Travel Makes for Good Fiction, But is it Real?

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  • lolTorrent
    Banned
    • Feb 2007
    • 202
    #1

    Time Travel Makes for Good Fiction, But is it Real?

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17544598/wid/11915829?GT1=9145


    I opened the internet, and BAM!. This article was the first on the page. So I quickly clicked (heh, that ryhmed). It's pretty interesting, IMO. So I decided to share.

    Also, this sparked even more interest.
    To punch a hole into the fabric of space-time, Kaku explained, would require the energy of a star or negative energy, an exotic entity with an energy of less than nothing.
    Discuss.
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    • Billydude
      FFR Player
      • Apr 2006
      • 880
      #2
      Re: Time Travel Makes for Good Fiction, But is it Real?

      I don't believe in time travel personally, but I think that is a good thing. I mean, have you ever seen the movie The Butterfly Effect? He just goes back in time to change the past for a better present, but it destroys his life even more. I think changing just a small thing in the past can cause an extremely different present.

      Originally posted by Chrissi
      If you eat a pizza it does not give you the urge to fly a kite.
      Originally posted by beaner692
      What if Billy talked to her? hes irrisistable

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        • bmah
          shots FIRED
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          Global Moderator
          • Oct 2003
          • 8448
          #3
          Re: Time Travel Makes for Good Fiction, But is it Real?

          My sister told me once that black holes can distort time, but I wouldn't fathom going into their event horizons ("point of no return") for time travel.
          Take a look at http://heasarc.nasa.gov/docs/xte/lea...over_1197.html for more info on time distortions.

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            • RandomPscho
              FFR Player
              • Jun 2006
              • 504
              #4
              Re: Time Travel Makes for Good Fiction, But is it Real?

              Turning back time - Flash Flash Revolution
              http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/vbz/showthread.php?t=57258


              Might want to skip the first few posts.

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                • Afrobean
                  Admiral in the Red Army
                  • Dec 2003
                  • 13262
                  #5
                  Re: Time Travel Makes for Good Fiction, But is it Real?

                  Originally posted by Billydude
                  I think changing just a small thing in the past can cause an extremely different present.
                  That's what they call the butterfly effect. That's where the name for that movie comes from. It's a basic principle of chaos theory.

                  As for time travel, I don't believe backwards time travel is possible, but forward "time travel" should be. It wouldn't really be time travel though... more like a time jump. The same effect on the "time traveler" could be achieved if cryogenic freezing worked.

                  ok reading article now... Time is not the 4th dimension. It is a fourth dimension in terms of measurement, but the concept of the 4th dimension is different from time.

                  They talk about wormholes... Isn't that word a synonym for black hole? Even so, if the concept was possible, it wouldn't be time travel. It'd be instantaneous travel through the 4th dimension. Anyone seen the movie Event Horizon? They explain the concept fairly well I believe. Something about an ant and a newspaper I think. Check it out if you haven't seen it. That flash video about string theory would be great too, if anyone has the link for it.

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                    • petpro32
                      FFR Player
                      • May 2006
                      • 160
                      #6
                      Re: Time Travel Makes for Good Fiction, But is it Real?

                      Imagining the Tenth Dimension - A Book by Rob Bryanton
                      http://www.tenthdimension.com/medialinks.php
                      Imagining the Tenth Dimension, a new way of thinking about time, space, and string theory, a book by Rob Bryanton


                      Explains String Thoery into 10 dimensions.

                      Uses many assumptions, but explains very well.


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                        • sjoecool1991
                          FFR Player
                          • Mar 2006
                          • 2302
                          #7
                          Re: Time Travel Makes for Good Fiction, But is it Real?

                          The past and future don't exist, only the present.

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                            • pntballa18
                              FFR Player
                              • Mar 2005
                              • 3357
                              #8
                              Re: Time Travel Makes for Good Fiction, But is it Real?

                              Originally posted by sjoecool1991
                              The past and future don't exist, only the present.
                              Explain what you just said.

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                                • Afrobean
                                  Admiral in the Red Army
                                  • Dec 2003
                                  • 13262
                                  #9
                                  Re: Time Travel Makes for Good Fiction, But is it Real?

                                  He's saying that the past and the future don't actually exist and that they're merely a way for us to imagine not only a 4th dimension to reality, but also to allow us ease to remember past experiences and plan for future ones.

                                  As it is, the only thing that exists is now. The past and the future exist only in another dimension.

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                                    • sjoecool1991
                                      FFR Player
                                      • Mar 2006
                                      • 2302
                                      #10
                                      Re: Time Travel Makes for Good Fiction, But is it Real?

                                      Originally posted by Afrobean
                                      He's saying that the past and the future don't actually exist and that they're merely a way for us to imagine not only a 4th dimension to reality, but also to allow us ease to remember past experiences and plan for future ones.

                                      As it is, the only thing that exists is now. The past and the future exist only in another dimension.
                                      Basically yeah, I did not know quite how to explain it, thank you.

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                                        • pntballa18
                                          FFR Player
                                          • Mar 2005
                                          • 3357
                                          #11
                                          Re: Time Travel Makes for Good Fiction, But is it Real?

                                          I knew what he was trying to say, it was just a test to see if he would say "what I just posted meant" meaning that there is a past.

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                                            • Windscarredfaith
                                              (づ￣ ³￣)づ watermelon
                                              • Mar 2005
                                              • 2612
                                              #12
                                              Re: Time Travel Makes for Good Fiction, But is it Real?

                                              To me, there are just too many possibilities. It's best to stick to what we know.

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                                                • sjoecool1991
                                                  FFR Player
                                                  • Mar 2006
                                                  • 2302
                                                  #13
                                                  Re: Time Travel Makes for Good Fiction, But is it Real?

                                                  Originally posted by pntballa18
                                                  I knew what he was trying to say, it was just a test to see if he would say "what I just posted meant" meaning that there is a past.
                                                  There is no past, but that does not mean things that happened in the past don't exist anymore.

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                                                    • pntballa18
                                                      FFR Player
                                                      • Mar 2005
                                                      • 3357
                                                      #14
                                                      Re: Time Travel Makes for Good Fiction, But is it Real?

                                                      Well, I'm definitly going to need more explaining of that statement =\
                                                      Last edited by pntballa18; 03-14-2007, 08:33 PM. Reason: i suck at spelling definitly

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                                                        • All_That_Chaz
                                                          Supreme Dictator For Life
                                                          • Apr 2004
                                                          • 5874
                                                          #15
                                                          Re: Time Travel Makes for Good Fiction, But is it Real?

                                                          Think about this: If time travel were possible and we found it before the end of humanity and if it is beneficial to society, someone would have have come back in time to tell us so and how to do it.
                                                          Back to "Back to Earth"
                                                          Originally posted by FoJaR
                                                          dammit chaz
                                                          Originally posted by FoJaR
                                                          god dammit chaz
                                                          Originally posted by MalReynolds
                                                          I bet when you live in a glass house, the temptation to throw stones is magnified strictly because you're not supposed to.

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