Time Travel - is it possible?
Discussion
OK yes I know it seems unlikely, but then so did the world being round!
Just think of the possibilities..
Don't like the world how it is today? Take a holiday back to the good old days of 1930!
Can't wait.
--> Science link
Just think of the possibilities..
Don't like the world how it is today? Take a holiday back to the good old days of 1930!
Can't wait.
--> Science link
FourWheelDrift said:
This thread has already been done, tommorow.
PS. Hmmmm, time travel, begs the question if time travel was possible wouldn't there be some evidence of future people/visits/technology? But then how do we know any of today's technical inventions didn't come from a future visitor?
Assuming there is no such thing as fate and destiny
then the future has nearly infinite outcomes, some of which would of produced time machines which would of probably teleported into every known present day time and position. So i reckon its probably impossible. Alternatively im talking a load of crap.Einion Yrth said:
Many of those models of time travel that are seriously considered suggest that travel backwards in time is possible, but only as far back as the invention of the time machine. Thus since we haven't built one yet, noone can visit us from the future, until we do.
What happens if someone goes back in time and destroys the time machine then? doesn't that create a paradox? or is it assumed there are multiple timeline possibilities in which these people come from?
esselte said:
Yes it's possible.The last time I went to Skegness I found I was back in 1955!
I too have have experienced this! It was on a trip to Blackpool last December, and when we arrived, we were back in a Blackpool, Circa 1976!! Nothing had changed, not even the faded, lurid paintwork!chris watton said:
Yes it's possible.The last time I went to Skegness I found I was back in 1955!
nonsense
the totty are wearing less
Had to post this little didt I found on the web to do with Patents:-
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International Patent
Patent Pending, 2005. Nelson,B., et al.
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Summary
The Use of a Time Machine to assign Patent Rights
A business methodology requiring the use of a 'Time-Machine' or other device enabling travel backwards in the dimension of time. Such a device then permits the registration of patents before the original publication date, to allow a new benefactor to profit from the proceeds of said patent. By careful selection of such patents, it would be possible for the benefactor to amass enough capital to, in the future, fund the development of said 'Time-Machine' to complete this operation.
Claims
1. Should such a possibility of 'Patent Reassignment in Negative Timespace' become widespread, it will become inevitable that various parties will attempt to claim-jump each other, travelling back to a few days before each other to continually preapply for the same patent concept.
2. This will inevitably push the date of all patents back to before the year 1760 - all patents will have effectively expired in the present day. As this is an inevitability, the Patent Office might as well pack up and go home now.
3. To avoid this possibility, we wish to patent the business method of 'The Use of a Time Machine to assign Patent Rights'. While this may be seen as the way for one entity to amass considerable power and fortune, it can be seen as the only way to prevent this escallation of Patent reassignment and the confusion this would lead to.
4. It is possible that Patent Offices may become overloaded with work in the *past*. This may mean that staff may have to miss holidays they have already taken. This will not be fair to anyone. So we propose that, instead of travelling back to apply for these patents in the past when this may put undue strain on Patent Offices and their staff, we apply for these patents retrospectively now, as if we had applied for them in the past.
5. We will provide a list of patents (below) that we wish to be retrospectively granted to us shortly. But for now, anything involving Microsoft, Intel, Sony, and Krispy Kreme Donuts would be a good starting point.
Patents on File for Preapplication:-
Use of a Laser Pointing Device for Exercising Cats
Use of Insane Marketing Techniques and Mass Hysteria to encourage Donut Consuption. Kreme K. et al, 1998
Pet Rock
ABBA
Rubicks Cube
Sinclair C5
Intellivision Corporation
Spam
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International Patent
Patent Pending, 2005. Nelson,B., et al.
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Summary
The Use of a Time Machine to assign Patent Rights
A business methodology requiring the use of a 'Time-Machine' or other device enabling travel backwards in the dimension of time. Such a device then permits the registration of patents before the original publication date, to allow a new benefactor to profit from the proceeds of said patent. By careful selection of such patents, it would be possible for the benefactor to amass enough capital to, in the future, fund the development of said 'Time-Machine' to complete this operation.
Claims
1. Should such a possibility of 'Patent Reassignment in Negative Timespace' become widespread, it will become inevitable that various parties will attempt to claim-jump each other, travelling back to a few days before each other to continually preapply for the same patent concept.
2. This will inevitably push the date of all patents back to before the year 1760 - all patents will have effectively expired in the present day. As this is an inevitability, the Patent Office might as well pack up and go home now.
3. To avoid this possibility, we wish to patent the business method of 'The Use of a Time Machine to assign Patent Rights'. While this may be seen as the way for one entity to amass considerable power and fortune, it can be seen as the only way to prevent this escallation of Patent reassignment and the confusion this would lead to.
4. It is possible that Patent Offices may become overloaded with work in the *past*. This may mean that staff may have to miss holidays they have already taken. This will not be fair to anyone. So we propose that, instead of travelling back to apply for these patents in the past when this may put undue strain on Patent Offices and their staff, we apply for these patents retrospectively now, as if we had applied for them in the past.
5. We will provide a list of patents (below) that we wish to be retrospectively granted to us shortly. But for now, anything involving Microsoft, Intel, Sony, and Krispy Kreme Donuts would be a good starting point.
Patents on File for Preapplication:-
Use of a Laser Pointing Device for Exercising Cats
Use of Insane Marketing Techniques and Mass Hysteria to encourage Donut Consuption. Kreme K. et al, 1998
Pet Rock
ABBA
Rubicks Cube
Sinclair C5
Intellivision Corporation
Spam
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scorp said:
Many of those models of time travel that are seriously considered suggest that travel backwards in time is possible, but only as far back as the invention of the time machine. Thus since we haven't built one yet, noone can visit us from the future, until we do.
What happens if someone goes back in time and destroys the time machine then? doesn't that create a paradox? or is it assumed there are multiple timeline possibilities in which these people come from?
It would certainly prove or disprove the multiple worlds conjecture - if you can destroy the time machine, then multiple worlds must be true, if multiple worlds is false then you will be unable to destroy it.
You can travel into the future relatively easily. You just need to slow down time relative to all around you. So 1 hr would pass in the normal environment, but you would only experience say 5 seconds.
To do this you either need to travel very quickly, relative to all around you, or invent some kind of statis device that you could get into, I'm sure I saw one on ebay the other day. It was on 'buy it then'
To do this you either need to travel very quickly, relative to all around you, or invent some kind of statis device that you could get into, I'm sure I saw one on ebay the other day. It was on 'buy it then'
Einion Yrth said:
It would certainly prove or disprove the multiple worlds conjecture - if you can destroy the time machine, then multiple worlds must be true, if multiple worlds is false then you will be unable to destroy it.
Explain this multiple worlds thing, is it a fixed number of universes or does it increase with time (a new universe is created for every possible outcome of every event) ?
scorp said:The latter,every possible result of a quantum event happens somewhere - tis still only conjecture though, although I find it more satisfying than the Copenhagen interpretation.
It would certainly prove or disprove the multiple worlds conjecture - if you can destroy the time machine, then multiple worlds must be true, if multiple worlds is false then you will be unable to destroy it.
Explain this multiple worlds thing, is it a fixed number of universes or does it increase with time (a new universe is created for every possible outcome of every event) ?
Einion Yrth said:
The latter,every possible result of a quantum event happens somewhere - tis still only conjecture though, although I find it more satisfying than the Copenhagen interpretation.
So upon the creation of the time machine, there would be a near infinite number of possible future universes which would send back tons of stuff into your time line?
Einion Yrth said:
It would certainly prove or disprove the multiple worlds conjecture - if you can destroy the time machine, then multiple worlds must be true, if multiple worlds is false then you will be unable to destroy it.
Explain this multiple worlds thing, is it a fixed number of universes or does it increase with time (a new universe is created for every possible outcome of every event) ?
Another view is that all possibilities 'exist' and that what we experience as time is merely a sequence of snapshots of possibility space that are linked by set of logically consistant rules (the laws of physics).
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