I have an article somewhere that describes different methods of time travel. All of them are impossible on an engineering level. For example, one required a giant metal rod that was light years long, others requied you to gather as much mass as is contained in the entire solar system.
Time travel forward isn't a problem. Give it some time and we'll have cryogenics, freeze yourself, then pop out a century later. Boom! You've time traveled, although going back would present a problem.
Although I think I read a theory that if you got enough aardvarks spinning around a magnetized tungsten rod, then struck the whole contraption with lightning it could cause anamolies in time, allowing you to jump back in time. You wouldn't have much control over where it put you, but you would be back in time. I think they called it the Critical Aardvark Mass Theory or something.
Right, if you're unable to get natural lightning to strike your tungsten rod you can use lightning generated by a Tesla Coil. Although the results from a Tesla induced space time tear are typically much more dangerous than tears produced through natural lightning.
Personally I don't think that time travel is or ever will be possible. At least not so that one could interact with people. The way I see it is that there may someday be a way for someone to visit a past time, but not be seen or heard by people there. If precieved at all it may be like a ghost. I think that time travelers would only be here for research, you know to see what life was like in the primitive 21st century. Travel into the future is not possible, mainly because there is no where to go, because the future hasn't happened yet. The way I think it would be done is people would go to a place where they would sit in a chair and have some device placed on their head. They then could psychically travel to any point in the past. Because they wouldn't physically be there they couldn't interfere with the timeline thus eliminating the dreaded time paradox. You know where you accidentally kill your great-great-grandfather and as such never exist. I love stories and movies about time travel, but I truely don't believe it will ever work. That's just my opinion of course.
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Personally I don't think that time travel is or ever will be possible. At least not so that one could interact with people. |
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The way I see it is that there may someday be a way for someone to visit a past time, but not be seen or heard by people there. If precieved at all it may be like a ghost. |
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Travel into the future is not possible, mainly because there is no where to go, because the future hasn't happened yet. |
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the dreaded time paradox. You know where you accidentally kill your great-great-grandfather and as such never exist. |
I think time travel could be possible but the method to do it will have to be incredibly advance.
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It's one of those things. We'll say we never will be able to now, but one day we will, and when we can, we'll say we shouldn't. |
I don't think that the wording of this question is perfect. We are all travelling through time. The problem is that we're travelling in a constant direction at a constant speed. I find it very hard to concieve of ways to manipulate time totally, although I suppose there are issues of relativity where different entities can experience time at different rates.