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Theoretical discussion on how time travel could work.

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Wolfnox

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A bit of fun this one. Obviously number dials won't work. I had a working idea. But, reading different accounts from "suppository" information based on "possible" experiences. Has caused a reassignment of that idea.
The accounts speak of shimmerings in clear air. Like a hazy picture disoriented by some unseen filter. Individual walks threw ends up back in time.
Two questions spring to mind. Given the hypothetical power involved in creating such a hole in reality and time. How is it said human wasn't vaporized? My working theory on this point is a saturation event. Where the individual cells is bathed in power from the event. Possible synching with that of the portal or energy from other time reality. Allowing passage briefly until saturation event ends. This naturally doesn't do favors to individuals body. Likely leading to cancer later.
As for the tear itself. I suspect it is actually natural. Based on a science we have not discovered yet.
The next question is of course how.
Lots of hypothetical math and science. Though as I said I believe it is natural occuring. Based on not yet discovered or understood science.
As for human manipulation of it. Not very likely. Very complex phenomena.

Thoughts?
 
Yes it could work like that. The subsequent illness being the price paid. Maybe fortunately there's a cure for that though, in another galaxy, far far away? If one can only get there in time...

There is so much we don't yet understand, that I think travelling through time could easily be possible, though very likely there may be some particular attributes needed to do it that not everyone has. Even when done, it may not be understood by the person doing it. But what is time, in any case? Just an arrangement of space that can be rearranged, surely?
 
Thinx said:
But what is time, in any case? Just an arrangement of space that can be rearranged, surely?
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Reality in process of changing. Time itself is a human invention to more easily document the changes they saw in themselves and the world. Example of this being if you stopped counting birthdays. Your body would still age.
In the Bible they kept track by the name of what king was on the throne of Israel. Different application of time measurement.
 
I tried. But if you could go back, say to when you were 10 years old, would you meet the younger you? Or would you replace them and now be an older you, with surprised parents? Or would you become the younger you, completely oblivious that you had gone back in time and just do things over more or less? And as always, my brain started to hurt and I gave up. ;)
 
If it were possible to have the experience of going back in time, I don't believe it would be going back into the past. It might seem like the past, but it would have to be a different timeline; the grandfather paradox would not operate. Meaning, if you were to kill your grandfather, you would still exist as the grandson of the grandfather you had always had.

It's quite hard for me to imagine going into the past, to see something you know has already happened, with the potential for it to also not have happened yet. Seems illogical.
 
Time travel is already theoretically possible, but only to the future. An Einstein-Rosen bridge, while connecting space, can involve enormous relativistic effects to slow time in the traveler's frame of reference.
 
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Tom said:
I tried. But if you could go back, say to when you were 10 years old, would you meet the younger you? Or would you replace them and now be an older you, with surprised parents? Or would you become the younger you, completely oblivious that you had gone back in time and just do things over more or less? And as always, my brain started to hurt and I gave up. ;)
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Not likely. You would be the older you. As for the possible meeting in the past of the younger you or your parents. Well you already know. They don't know it's you and the past you wouldn't either. So probably call the cops and treat you like a crazy person.
You can see a similar result when people say they saw into the future. Disbelief and mistrust.
 
SimonSays said:
If it were possible to have the experience of going back in time, I don't believe it would be going back into the past. It might seem like the past, but it would have to be a different timeline; the grandfather paradox would not operate. Meaning, if you were to kill your grandfather, you would still exist as the grandson of the grandfather you had always had.

It's quite hard for me to imagine going into the past, to see something you know has already happened, with the potential for it to also not have happened yet. Seems illogical.
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Not entirely true. Likely it would result in a variation of the time. Resulting in a new reality. Cops get involved. Meetings occur among people who wouldn't have meet before.
Shifting events in a new direction.
 
It seems to me time travel might be impossible but I am in no place to judge just that the philosophical implications bring up a very important point not so much going back and killing Hitler or your grandfather. Just that I think time is linear and not a part of space but a distinctive subjunctive that is part of all co-ordinate vectors. But the question is not about maths it's about how. Perhaps if you create a singularity and bend space enough you can cause time to flow backwards then choose when to stop it.


Perhaps the spice might provide a way since it enables you to see beyond the borders of time if you are The Kwizats Hadderrach or Messiah sure but...

Suffie to say it seems to me that time flows in a particular direction and backwards cannot be one of them.

Hence the golden path in Dune, the only way to save humanity from itself. Even a God cannot change what has happened.

Bené Gesserit Witches are of course the most dangerous of all the Orange Catholics keepers of the genetics.
 
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Mmm would it need to flow backwards though? Couldn't one just like, get in one's tardis or other suitable means of time travel and go? Maybe drop through the time flow? If it hasn't happened for me before, am I even going backwards? Or forward into my future in the past?
 
Tom said:
I tried. But if you could go back, say to when you were 10 years old, would you meet the younger you? Or would you replace them and now be an older you, with surprised parents? Or would you become the younger you, completely oblivious that you had gone back in time and just do things over more or less? And as always, my brain started to hurt and I gave up. ;)
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I'm old! I'm young! (Back to the Future Part 2/II, 1989)​
Getting Technical...: Time Travel: What to Pack...
 
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could someone travel back in time, go where the primordial soup was, dry it and so put an end to human existence, before it even began? muhahahahahaha :smilingimp:

(irony)
 
Shaddock said:
could someone travel back in time, go where the primordial soup was, dry it and so put an end to human existence, before it even began? muhahahahahaha :smilingimp:

(irony)
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That would create a major Grandfather Paradox!
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