THoughts on Astronomical Travel...

[DSMConvert]

Just curious if we have any other brianiacs in here that support the idea of the possibility of time travel. To keep this from becoming a Star Trek thread, please only post if you are actually knowledgable on the subject(ie educational background, college level or above).

 

[jersey_emt]

If time is indeed simply another dimension, then there must be a way to travel through it; we simply have not yet discovered the means.

And honestly, I hope we never do. It is something that simply has too much potential for disaster.

 

[dosle]

im reading "Hyperspace" by Michio Kaku, deals with this subject a bit

 

[ZapWizard]

I often tell people if I was better at math I would be developing anti-gravity, or warp travel.

To me traveling faster then the speed of light is possible.

One example is a black-hole.
Often a quote is given that I am curious about:

"It has such a great gravitational pull that not even light can escape it"

Well then the pull of gravity at that point, must be greater then the speed of light, or the light would simply freeze in place when the pull was equal to the speed of light.

In my opinion everything in the universe is simply organized energy.
I do think however we will see teleportation before we will see faster then light travel.

 

[pr5owner]

ion drives where in countless scifi movies, and it was recently used on a probe/satelite i thought that was pretty cool, ion drives can go farther and longer than conventional rockets

 

[pr5owner]

also heard about FTL or faster than light communications using quantum tunneling, i didn't really get much of it other than when you spin "forgot the name" beside another "forgot the name" the one you spin affects the other and the one you dont touch spins the other way but there is no lag in time to spin them both. i dunno my understanding is limited LOL

 

[unwrittenLaw]

Read the book "The Universe in a Nutshell" by Stephen Hawking....very good book. I could comprehend some of it where as other parts were quite complicated if you're not into quantum mechanics, astrophysics, etc...

That being said, its seems Hawking, and other uber-smart people have found that time travel could be possible, but we'll probably never have the technology or ability to successfully do it...

 

[pr5owner]

never say never, look how fast computers have evolved, 10 years ago they said that we don't need more than 256K of ram, now machines have 8 GIGS of ram in them, now we have the ability to address terabytes of ram thanks to the new A64 CPU

 

[TXMazdaSpeeder]

i believe time travel is possible from what i've read/heard/discussed but my question is this...

if it is possible then would one person be abel to go back in time and the rest of the world stay in place, or would all time for everyone be rewound?

 

[dosle]

never say never, look how fast computers have evolved, 10 years ago they said that we don't need more than 256K of ram, now machines have 8 GIGS of ram in them, now we have the ability to address terabytes of ram thanks to the new A64 CPU

heres something following that approach on future technology advancements...

http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0610.html?m%3D1

its a long read but very interesting and has good examples.

 

[tiwing]

3 things I've always wanted to understand: Time Travel, Chaos Theory, and the Butteryfly Effect. *clicks subscribe*

 

[servoeyes]

Here's a little quote: If time travel were possible, then we would be inundated by tourists from the future. I forget who said that, but it's a logical jump...sure they could try to regulate it, but chances are that it wouldn't work. So...basically...time travel is most likely not possible at least in our planet's life span...or our time is just quite boring an no one wants to visit. That doesn't mean that our future civilization has not progressed to the ability to manipulate time...it just means they may not be all too interested in coming back here.

On another note, last year a young kid put forth a very confusing hypothesis on time. I forget his name and I haven't heard much about it since. The scientific community was split a whole bunch of different ways on it. I still haven't heard much on it...it's very confusing, but here's the artivle for the interested folk: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/time_theory_030806.html


And here's a bonus article done up today:
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/space_elevator_040629.html

This one is regarding the space elevator...it's getting closer and closer to reality. Assuming that we can make one that works, which is seeming more likely, the stars will be open to everyone. I guarantee that our race will become interplanetary at the very least, if not extrasolar and intergalactic.

 

[servoeyes]

heres something following that approach on future technology advancements...

http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0610.html?m%3D1

its a long read but very interesting and has good examples.

Ray Kurzweil is a bit of a nut/genius, but his math may yet be proven correct. He's predicting Nanotech by the 2020s to 2030s. If he's right, it's a huge change in the way we live. The problem will be carrying funding out for those processes to occcur by that time. I don't think he takes into account the changing political tides, nor does he factor in the lack of a current frontier to motivate the push for future technologies. I think he's just a bit too optimistic in his calculations...but I don't think he's too far off. I've seen him talk at a conference at my school...It was him, Arthur C. Clarke, and a couple other folk. ACC was teleconferenceing from Sri Lanka of course. That was definitely one of the brightest moments in my college life...

 

[pr5owner]

nanotech.. are we going to turn ourselves into the borg?

 

[GI-]

Here's a little quote: If time travel were possible, then we would be inundated by tourists from the future. I forget who said that, but it's a logical jump...sure they could try to regulate it, but chances are that it wouldn't work. So...basically...time travel is most likely not possible at least in our planet's life span...or our time is just quite boring an no one wants to visit. That doesn't mean that our future civilization has not progressed to the ability to manipulate time...it just means they may not be all too interested in coming back here.

Sorry to take this a little off-topic but speaking of this, did anyone see the recent episode of South Park where people from the future come back in time and steal all of the jobs available in South Park? This episode freaking ruled!

 

[Akaveli]

If time is indeed simply another dimension, then there must be a way to travel through it; we simply have not yet discovered the means.

And honestly, I hope we never do. It is something that simply has too much potential for disaster.

I agree. All we need is the wrong idiot going back and changing s***. Matter fact, anybody changing things. Cause everything else will have a ripple effect.

 

[TXMazdaSpeeder]

I agree. All we need is the wrong idiot going back and changing s***. Matter fact, anybody changing things. Cause everything else will have a ripple effect.

thats why i had my previous question

 

[Akaveli]

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[batmang]

Just curious if we have any other brianiacs in here that support the idea of the possibility of time travel. To keep this from becoming a Star Trek thread, please only post if you are actually knowledgable on the subject(ie educational background, college level or above).

first off, you spelled brainiac's wrong. good job..... ironic, don't cha think? considering what your first post said about educational experience.
but i agree with jersey_emt, there's too much that could go wrong to make it worth while. its no different then giving terrorist's some airplanes. too much bad outweighs the good.

 

[ZapWizard]

Don't forget that time travel must also work in conjunction with teleportation.
If you were to go back in time just one hour, if you didn't also change your location, you would end up floating in space thousands of miles from earth.
(As the earth is traveling at thousands of miles an hour)

Hence, why modern theory on time travel often talks about it as a means of space travel, since you would already be floating in space anyways.