Time Travel

The greatest and funniest time-travel sci-fi story I have ever read is probably the first chapter in Stanislav Lem's The Star Diaries called 'The Seventh Voyage', where protagonist Ijon Tichy's spacecraft goes through a series of 'time vortices' which cause him to coexists with several copies of himself at slightly different times. The story is cleverly woven so that the different versions of him interact with each other without actually creating any obvious paradox. Really funny, read it if you like this sort of stuff.

Back to mid-May in 1987 to just as I was about to smoke my first cigarette.

I'd punch myself right up the bracket & tell me not to do it!

My then-me would as a result wonder who the short haired bearded chap was & report my now-me to the local police (in Austria) resulting in my now-me's imprisonment, thus creating a time cycle which I'd probably fall off from as they don't come fitted with stabilisers.



What was the question again?

Icarium wrote: acourding to Brian Greene it can happen, even With Worm holes or With black holes, pick Your favourite, With Worm holes you travel backwards and With black holes you travel forward.

With wormholes you’re basically punching a hole through space or space/time. Depending on where exactly the other side of the Einstein-Rosen bridge ends up, you should be able to go either forwards or backwards in time.  Black holes are a total mystery; they may even lead to another universe.  We may be living inside a black hole, no one can say for sure.

If space and time are interwoven as space/time, I’d imagine it would be possible to go back in time by going back in space.  For instance, to travel back 1 year, you would have to trek to the same exact point in space you were one year ago.

 

I would not want to go back to earths historical past; it was filled with even more ignorance than today.  Mostly I’m inferring to spiritual ignorance or spiritual unawareness.  Because of this, barbaric savagery still plagues a lot of our world, but it is getting better.

I’d like to take a peak in another 1000 years or so, by then humanity will be either humane or extinct.  The music and the technology should be astonishing...

 

ProgMetaller2112 wrote: The Dark Elf wrote: Well, this has been couple minutes I have no interest in reliving.   Why did you waste your time then?

Seems to me you wouldn't travel through time, time would travel through you.

Interesting that I go from watching the anime Steins:Gate to seeing a thread about time travel.

While I'm willing to acknowledge the existence of it, it doesn't seem to have been made possible at this moment, aside from Rob's sarcastic remarks.

Time travel is possible.  I bet you're doing it right now.

acourding to Brian Greene it can happen, even With Worm holes or With black holes, pick Your favourite, With Worm holes you travel backwards and With black holes you travel forward.

Edited by Icarium - August 23 2014 at 17:20