Accidental Time Machine discussion -- Do You Think The Ability To Actually Time Travel Exsists Now?

[Helen]

What do you think the chances are that the ability to travel through time might actually be available to us now? If you don't, do you think that one day it might?

[Lara Amber]

I don't think time travel will ever be possible. For all the fun of the idea and coming up with theories, I think we will be turning ourselves inside out as fashion statements before theory ever becomes reality.

Lara Amber

[Jon]

Not now. Maybe in the distant future, when we can travel close to the speed of light and realize the effects of Einstein's theory.

[Kevin]

We are all currently traveling through time now. the Side steps that by passed time but still in the forward direction is that realy time travel or a form of stasis.

It also did little to address the problem of distance. in 2 minutes we on the earth have moved a huge distance while ther is some drift in the story it sould have been far greater and immediately noticed

[Brad]

I won't live to see it, but if we don't annihilate ourselves I figure humanity will figure it out eventually.

[Libby]

Unfortunately, I think we are closer to the possibility of annihilating ourselves than discovering time travel.

[Jeff]

If a Time machine is ever invented, we would already know about it, because someone would have traveled back to tell us about it. The world as we know it would not exist, because, depending on who got hold of it, some evil person would travel back and make sure Hitler won WWII, for instance. I think that the concept of McFly's picture fading out in "Back to the Future" is not so far fetched, either. You could do some real damage with time travel, and the concept in To Say Nothing of the Dog of Time protecting itself is pretty far-fetched to me.

I would much rather we invented Star Trek transporters than time machines. :-)

[Leslie Ann]

I don't hold out much hope that we'll figure it out, simply because there's too many pressing issues coming up that threaten to wipe us out as a species long before we get that advanced.

[James]

I don't think it's a question of technology. I just don't think it's possible. The thought that I could possibly travel back even one minute and change the fact that I just typed this is ludicrous. I know people will point to Einsteins theory proving that time travel is possible, but I believe what is done is done.
Just about every other far fetched technology I see in Sci-Fi material I think would be possible. I could even foresee the possibility of visiting a tangent universe where we could see ourselves at a different time period. I just don't think what we did there could effect our own universe.
I do love time travel stories though. I would just put them on par with magic stories. Things that are not realistic, but fun. I feel so strongly against the possibility of time travel that I've decided that it is the only path I will refuse to go toward in the book series I'm writing. I'm basing the series on plausible science. To me time travel is not plausible.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...

[Jon]

Kevinalbee wrote: "We are all currently traveling through time now. the Side steps that by passed time but still in the forward direction is that realy time travel or a form of stasis.

It also did little to addre..."

This was a very enlightening article on how fast we are really traveling through the Universe.

http://www.astro.uu.nl/~strous/AA/en/...

[Deedee]

Time travel real? I don't think so. What might happen sometime in the far future is technology described in Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter's novel "The Light of Other Days", wherein a spacecraft, going through a wormhole, can view the lightwaves coming from Earth and so can view what *really* happened in history.

[Paul]

Of course, if you converted yourself into tachyons...

[Maria]

I agree with James - I don't think time travel is physically possible, and therefore don't think we'll ever invent a time machine.

[Ron]

Like going through wormholes, jumping (except forward due to relativistic time elongation) in time is probably impossible, given that our current understanding of physics is even approximately correct. (That it isn't exactly correct is almost a given.)