Time Travel

There's no time travel yet. In some ways I want it to be possible and in some ways I don't. If time travel does become possible, you'd have to be very very careful. Let me give you an example. In Arachnophobia a man said that the planet might be uninhabital if there were no spiders. I don't know if that's true but let's pretend for a minute that it is true. If you traveled back millions of years into the past and accidentally stepped on one of the first two spiders before they could mate, you would destroy all of humanity and would most likely cause a Paradox. Traveling through time would take people who are extremely responsible. It's like Spider-Man's uncle said "With great power comes great responsibility."

What I wouldn't give to be able to travel through time, even just once. Just imagine the people from history you could meet - Aristotle and Plato in their hayday (even Homer if he actually existed and wasn't the fictional creation of Plato), to be able to watch Isaac Newton as he unfolded the secrets of gravity during what of the most important moments in scientific history, or to be able to talk to great writers such as Chaucer as he wrote his Canterbury Tales. It would also be the dream of anyone interested in ancient civilisations and prehistoric life (such as myself) to be able to see whether the pyramids were built with internal ramps, or what the behavioural patterns of dinosaurs was really like. The problem though, is it actually possible? It's something that has been the cause for debate of scientists for at least the past century and we're no closer to realising that dream. The problem is our concept of time. If it was possible to travel into the future would that mean it ha... Read more

Well, technically, it already is possible, and actually happens. As your velocity increases, time moves slower for you than the rest frame. The effect is minimal of course for speeds normally attainable by human beings. But the effect has been measured by flying extremely accurate clocks on high speed jets. So theoretically every time people travel at high velocities they travel into the future just a little bit, or maybe it's more descriptive to say that time passes them by a little. The thing is, it's irreversible. Even if you could somehow approach the speed of light to travel significantly into the future, you could never go back. Time travel into the future is possible, but going back isn't. So you can forget about all those crazy paradoxes of talking to your grandparents when they were kids and all that junk.

Don't worry I'm still Working on that Flux Capacitor. Should be ready by November.

Time is a creation of the perceptions of man. Traveling around in it is one of the few things I regard as impossible...

Our current understanding of the laws of physics makes time travel an unsurmountable paradox. But then, what we know and understand today was not known or understood 100 years ago.

Yeah, the future would be awesome, and the past would be fun, if I could deage myself as well.