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"Time Travel - Why We Can't Go Fowards"

Ok, it's late at night and my computer seems to be crashing after every letter I type so bare with me on this. I'm going to explain why we can't travel into the future if time travel becomes a reality.

Firstly, you must understand that we exist in one timeline. What we're doing right now is the first of what we're doing that has ever been done. Ever. This explains why somebody hasn't come back through time and told us that we invent a time machine - we haven't done it yet! Since we're living at the very front of our timeline (we must be, somebody would have come back by now (either that or we don't invent a time machine in the future at all)) it means we can't go further foward because nothing has happened ahead of our time. If we could go foward, then destiny and fate would be proven to exist. If you go to 2020 and look yourself up, you'd be doing the same thing if you went back to your own year and waited the time difference (unless you interacted with your future self). As such, since we can't go fowards, fate and destiny don't exist.

The only way foward would be to appear in an alternate universe which has a timeline ahead of ours, but then you wouldn't time travel into your future but an alternate version of your future which, technically, is completely different to the one you exist in.

As such, when/if we invent a time machine, we can go back but not foward.



Lécture Êt Fin.

Shut up you nymph

I don't think it will ever be possible to travel through time in a time machine. What IB mentioned earlier is essentially true, there is a way of sorts to "go back" in time, I'm not sure why but something called the twin paradox sticks in my mind, it was mentioned in my physics class a couple of weeks ago.

As for going forwards in time, I don't think it could be physically possible, but my mind remains open to the idea of people having premonitions, mainly because it is something I have experienced myself a couple of times in my life, once where I personally knew a person and I "saw" an accident in a dream that actually happened 4 days later, and once where I again had a dream about a particular household name dying, someone young, and this happened the way I saw it in my dream about a week after I dreamt it.

So, due to this I'm not too sure about fate entirely.

monkey_man wrote:
> Silën† Thundêr ™ wrote:
> Yeah, like that Saint once said "The Chain of effects and
> actions" or something like that.
>
> The patron Saint of Time Travel? Are you sure?

Aquinus (sp) I believe...

Insane Bartender wrote:
> Travel backwards is impossible, and not a good idea anyway, due to
> the high likelihood of creating a paradox simply by appearing in the
> past where previously you were not.

It is also impossible to travel to a time BEFORE you built your time machine.

There was a program about time travel on a few weeks ago, quite interesting in a brain boggling kind of way.

Silën† Thundêr ™ wrote:
> Yeah, like that Saint once said "The Chain of effects and
> actions" or something like that.

The patron Saint of Time Travel? Are you sure?

Travelling forwards is possible - freeze yourself. Worked in that film, that old one. You know the one I mean.

monkey_man wrote:
> What I think ST means here is "cause and effect".

Yeah, like that Saint once said "The Chain of effects and actions" or something like that.

What I think ST means here is "cause and effect".

Final message:

It happened, leave it alone.

Although that wasnt maybe the best of posts by monkey_man he had a good point, 'time travel is a waste of time'. Is it? Why do we need to travel in time, everything happened for a reason so leave it alone. You may think that its a good idea to go back in time to kill Hitler or some one else like him. But this had to happen and it has happened so dont change it, leave it. If we killed every bad person like Hitler in the world it would just cause more problems.