A Question about Time Travelling

[Sherbang]

If travelling back in time was possible in some future date then we'd be seeing all these time travellers from the future in our own time. QED.

How do you know you are not seeing time travellers from the future? I presume they look like us...

 

[Geriatrix]

See, look!

 

[Sinbad]

This might be the right place to invite all you time travelers to our next annual meeting. It will be on two weeks ago in the usual dimension. PM me if you need directions

It was a freakin' blast. Thanks man!

 

[Elimentals]

This might be the right place to invite all you time travelers to our next annual meeting. It will be on two weeks ago in the usual dimension. PM me if you need directions

And we will be debating Novikov's self-consistency principle, you might wanna read up on it

 

[Unhappy438]

Time is relative, an example I've heard of is to think about 3 points of a triangle, A, B & C now time is governed by the speed of light (according to something I saw on Discovery channel a while back )If you follow the speed of light from point A to B you are traveling normally, BUT If you travel faster than the speed of light from point B to C you are effectively going ahead in time, as you are beating light to its destination, but if you ask me that's looking it at face value as you are only beating the clock, not actual time/space
Was this guy in the clip explaining it
http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/other-shows/videos/2057-time-travel.htm

You dont have to travel faster than the speed of light, traveling near light speed will send you to the future relative to everyone else on earth. FTL travel is impossible as far as we understand.

 

[Elimentals]

You dont have to travel faster than the speed of light, traveling near light speed will send you to the future relative to everyone else on earth. FTL travel is impossible as far as we understand.

Tell that to the Tachyon particle.

As I understand faster than light travel: Say you watching a TV episode, now the broadcast travels at the speed of light so if you in a craft that travels faster than that speed you will "pick up" signals that has already been broadcasted making the program you watching appear to run in reverse. Its not like you can travel faster than the speed of light and still park on the same spot, besides same spot time travel would cause a whole nightmare of its own as the earth/galaxy and universe all move so if you jump back even 10 minutes you will land in empty space.

Worm holes and dimensional travel on the other hand is another means of travel but then the question begs if you truely traveling backwards or just stepping from one moving platform onto another and not changing the one your on direction.

 

[Unhappy438]

Tell that to the Tachyon particle.

As I understand faster than light travel: Say you watching a TV episode, now the broadcast travels at the speed of light so if you in a craft that travels faster than that speed you will "pick up" signals that has already been broadcasted making the program you watching appear to run in reverse. Its not like you can travel faster than the speed of light and still park on the same spot, besides same spot time travel would cause a whole nightmare of its own as the earth/galaxy and universe all move so if you jump back even 10 minutes you will land in empty space.

Worm holes and dimensional travel on the other hand is another means of travel but then the question begs if you truely traveling backwards or just stepping from one moving platform onto another and not changing the one your on direction.

The tachyon particle is a completely hypothetical particle and there isn't a shred of evidence for its existence, ftl travel disobeys our laws of physics.

 

[Elimentals]

The tachyon particle is a completely hypothetical particle and there isn't a shred of evidence for its existence, ftl travel disobeys our laws of physics.

quantum physics disobeys the laws of physics, hence the search for a unified theory

 

[Sinbad]

The tachyon particle is a completely hypothetical particle and there isn't a shred of evidence for its existence, ftl travel disobeys our laws of physics.

FTL will be discovered in South Africa, I'm convinced. Possibly in a taxi. Nowhere else are so many laws disregarded so quickly, why should physics be any different?

 

[Arthur]

How do you know you are not seeing time travellers from the future? I presume they look like us...

Where did they park the 2212 Chevy?

 

[Elimentals]

Where did they park the 2212 Chevy?

The Timepolice impounded it, and the owners arrested for breaking the Time Gate laws and send to the time of the unicorns before there where dinosaurs

I once(In my youth) had a view that it could be that UFO's and Aliens where just Humans from the future on holiday or observing their past and not Aliens from other planets.

 

[Geriatrix]

I can't travel back in time. But I can post back in time sometimes.

 

[Unhappy438]

quantum physics disobeys the laws of physics, hence the search for a unified theory

Are you sure this shouldn't read "quantum physics disobeys macroscopic logic."

 

[Picard]

Time is not linear as far as I remember, it is relative.

It's relatively relative.

Time can be bent to a degree (regrading near-light speed travel and the effects of black holes) but not so far as to go back on itself.

But it's still linear in terms of cause and effect.

 

[Elimentals]

Are you sure this shouldn't read "quantum physics disobeys macroscopic logic."

nope.

For example, explain how wave particle duality works when looking at Newtons 3 laws of motion or
How the laws of thermodynamics can be applied in quantim physics in regaurd to virtual particles?

 

[Unhappy438]

nope.

For example, explain how wave particle duality works when looking at Newtons 3 laws of motion or
How the laws of thermodynamics can be applied in quantim physics in regaurd to virtual particles?

The idea that virtual particles violate energy conservation is a common misconception. Here is a good article on the matter http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Quantum/virtual_particles.html .

With regards to to FTL and quantum mechanics only quantum entanglement gets into this and even that is not true FTL travel.

Anyway i think getting into a debate about quantum mechanics is silly, i can guarantee that nobody on this forum will truly know what they are talking about.

 

[ponder]

I'm currently working on a Infinite Improbability Drive which might have some time travelling implications

 

[Arthur]

The Timepolice impounded it, and the owners arrested for breaking the Time Gate laws and send to the time of the unicorns before there where dinosaurs

Ah, of course! Silly me.

 

[Friedpet]

If travelling back in time was possible in some future date then we'd be seeing all these time travellers from the future in our own time. QED.

What if you could only travel back in time to the invention of timetravel and not before that?
What if only a select few are allowed to travel and they aren't allowed to reveal themselves now?
What if their cognition gets screwed up when they travel back and they end up in our mental institutions?

 

[nogard]

Hey it works

built a time machine going back in time a few minutes and will post if it works

I will now travel back in time to change the past.

If the Germans lost WW2 and Wednesday comes after Tuesday you will know I have succeeded.