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"Time Travelling."

It has been a topic of discussion in this forums of late, and I would like to know if it is really possible to do so. I am a student, and if you are a student too, do post your age (if you wish) and your grade while replying.

Socks D Snake wrote:
> Did anyone see the documentary about this?
>
> A very long and interesting one.
>
> According to it some have already traveled forward in time in a space
> flight-but being a few seconds it was of not much importance.

Should be milli-seconds, isn't it?

Lindgren wrote:
> Here's a little time travel question and answer thingy for you:
>
> An alien aged 20 earth years falls in love with a 20 year old on
> earth. After 1 year (spaceship time) the alien sends a message
> (radio) to the 20 year old earthling.
>
> Q: How old is the eartling when the message arrives?
>
> A: proper time interval = 1 year
> however accounting for the speed of light taken as .998 times the
> speed of light as it is impossible to get exactly to 1, the earth
> years passed for each spaceship year is 15.82 years!
>
> That means the 20 year old earthling is 35.82 years when the message
> is sent.
>
> The radio signal travels at the speed of light. So the distance it
> travels is .998 multiplied by 15.82 years = 15.79 years, thats how
> long the message takes to get to earth.
>
> Therefore the 20 year old earthling is 20years + 15.82years
> +15.79years
>
> = approx. 51 years old!

Yes, but some of it is very confusing.

It has not been proven impossible to travel faster than light. It's only been proved impossible to break the speed of light barrier.

Theoretically, if something were to come into existence already travelling faster than light, there's no reason why it should not continue to do so.

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/ generalscience/faster_than_c_000719.html

Man, I love this. It's like you're all arguing about whether it's possible and the paradoxes it would creat, and 99.9% of you are getting all your proven theories from episodes of Star Trek and the like...

It is possible to travel forwards in time. Simply cryogenically freeze yourself now, with instructions to be thawed out in the required year. When you are thawed out in, say, 100 years time your body will still seem the age that it is now (2004), so from your point of view you will have traveled forward in time. From everyone else's, you'll be stuck in an ice cube for 100 years....

Your Honour wrote:
> It is possible to travel forwards in time. Simply cryogenically freeze
> yourself now, with instructions to be thawed out in the required
> year.

Wow, I didn't realise they had perfected this technology / technique. Wouldn't it suck to get 100 years into the future and find that your brain has turned to mush due to cell walls bursting during the freezin process ;)

I have avery reliable freezer thanks. Just pay me £10,000 and I'll put a memo up to thaw you out whenever you want.


:-)

Anyone seen Donnie Darko?