Time Travel is Impossible?

[)O( Hytegia )O(]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/07/time-travel-impossible.html

The reason I'm posting this in here is to bring up the wording of the newspaper - simply because I'm a stickler when it comes to scientific accuracy.

It may be astounding evidence against that method as a viable idea, yes.
Does it mean that something is impossible? No.

Science doesn't make money or progress in the declaration of the possible, but the pursuit of the utterly impossible.

What are your thoughts on this news announcement and the scientific findings of Shengwang Du of the Hong Kong University of Sciences - which can be found at a website for a subscription that I do not have MOTHERFUCK? >.>

 

[Master_Ghost_Knight]

And I tend to agree that time travel wouldn't work altogheter, we already knew that time travel could never be possible due to unsolvable contradictions that it would imply, it is such a slam dunk that it is just a meere formality geting the experimental data stating it. I bet the result didn't come as a surprise to anyone.

 

[nefariousvirtuoso]

I hope not time travel is awesome.

 

[RichardMNixon]

You technically can go "forward" in time if you're moving at relativistic speeds because time will move slower in your frame of reference. Of course how far "forward" you can go is limited by your lifespan and just how close to c you can get and maintain.

As for going backwards, if time travel was possible, where are all the time travelers? None of them have a giant robot and a problem with the Holocaust?

 

[WarK]

As for going backwards, if time travel was possible, where are all the time travelers? None of them have a giant robot and a problem with the Holocaust?

Maybe they did travel from future to our past but in doing so they changed something in such a way that time travel won't be invented.

Not in this timeline at least

 

[)O( Hytegia )O(]

We're all missing the greatest problem with an impossibility of Time Travel -
if Time Travel is impossible, then how will I ever host a hope of owning my own Tardis?

:cry:

 

[Memeticemetic]

We're all missing the greatest problem with an impossibility of Time Travel -
if Time Travel is impossible, then how will I ever host a hope of owning my own Tardis?

Sorry, my friend, but only a Time Lord can have his very own Tardis. Last time I checked there was only one Time Lord 'round these parts.

Edit: I'll be damned. Apparently ImpJoe is, in fact, a Lime Tord. I'm not sure what to do with that information.

 

[)O( Hytegia )O(]

We're all missing the greatest problem with an impossibility of Time Travel -
if Time Travel is impossible, then how will I ever host a hope of owning my own Tardis?

Sorry, my friend, but only a Time Lord can have his very own Tardis. Last time I checked there was only one Time Lord 'round these parts.

Go back in time and make myself a time lord for me to have a Tardis to go back in Time.
Duh.

 

[Master_Ghost_Knight]

We're all missing the greatest problem with an impossibility of Time Travel -
if Time Travel is impossible, then how will I ever host a hope of owning my own Tardis?

:cry:

Sorry to break this up to you. But I guess you were going to fnd out some day.
Dr. Who is make belief like santa. Thy are just actors and a film crew, when you see it go back in time it is all in the present all they do is to change the studio.

 

[Prolescum]

Sorry to break this up to you. But I guess you were going to fnd out some day.
Dr. Who is make belief like santa. Thy are just actors and a film crew, when you see it go back in time it is all in the present all they do is to change the studio.

Are you genuinely under the impression that he was being serious?

 

[Master_Ghost_Knight]

Are you genuinely under the impression that he was being serious?

Do you think that I was?

 

[Prolescum]

Yes.

 

[Laurens]

As for going backwards, if time travel was possible, where are all the time travelers? None of them have a giant robot and a problem with the Holocaust?

maybe they can only travel back as far as the invention of the time machine?

 

[AdmiralPeacock]

My understanding of the physics involved are, admittedly barely rudimentary at best (if that) - but from what I can figure the principle problem with time travel is the same as FTL (assuming the various methods to get around relativity) - causality. It's a waste of time gaining the energies, the ability to fold time/space when you run face first in this foundational principle of the universe. The only way I can think of to get around it (which has the same chance of being wrong as the sun will rise tomorrow) is if you could quantify your causal traits; sort of like mapping causality like we do space/time - then switching places with an "event" with a compatible causal matrix.

Sort of like the old sci fi series Quantum Leap... though sans the moral missions. You wouldn't be "possessing" someone from the past, but nearly seamless replacing them; people would see you differently, but still perceive you as the former identity. I imagine you would only have to care about future causal events if you desire to merely observe - though that is impossible, as the mere act of going there changes things.


That's just my "sitting on the shitter, thinking deep thoughts" idea.