Theodis wrote:
I greatly doubt they actually got something going faster then the speed of light. They said it was "instantaneously" I've heard of something like this before. It's called entanglement, I don't remember exactly how it works, you'll have to google it. | |
It's not possibly to go back in time, it is possible to go into the future though. If you were to travel at the speed of light, you'd be turned into energy I believe, for let's say a year, A lot more time will have passed everywhere while you'll have only aged a year, I'm not sure how much time.
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Hey, remember when the world was supposedly flat? I'm pretty sure every scientist agreed on this fact. This is what you mean, right?
I think if we did master time travel and went back in time to tweak something, then nothing right now would change, because it was part of the time flow that someone from the future came and did something which would have resulted in the current state. My head hurts from that...please say you get what I'm saying XD; | |
Time travel is so complicated! But teleportation isnt I have made up a theroy about it; if the nody is made of chemical energy why not change that into light energy then going at the speed of light you would go to another place where you get changed back into chemical energy. Though I have doubts it may not work
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Can they got object A to teleport to Location B faster than light could travel from A to B? If so wouldnt that be making A get to be Before it actually set off according to theory?
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That's actually what I've always thought. Who's to say that if you're going back in time will change anything, when the future of yourself has already done it? It's hard to understand, but the outcome is the same. I don't know who came up with this weird theory of changing the future.
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I'm pretty sure entanglement is what's used to transport multiple atoms at a time from one port to the next. It doesn't look like they've tested the thing at all. Instantaneously to human observation may or may not be the speed of light.
For example, if I shoot a gun, I'm not going to see the bullet, but I will see the target 3 feet away after I've fired the gun. To me, it will look instantaneous. | |
Well, I bet it would be very difficult to change one energy particle to the next. Even if that is possible, I am certain there is no way to construct molecules on the other side, or even preserve life for that matter.
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CaptFalcon33035 wrote:
I don't know who came up with this weird theory of changing the future. Um...I'm pretty sure this guy did: http://www.mjyoung.net/imgsrc/doc.jpg. | |
Unfortunately, the rules of the universe are incapable of being broken, because they are what guides the very existence of anything and everything that is, was, and will ever be. A violation of those rules isn't a violation, but showing that our current beliefs of what those rules are is innacurrate. Anyways, Airjoe has already posted why this is wrong.
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According to the self-consistency principle, it is impossible to change time. If time travel is possible and is feasible, you wouldn't be able to screw up the past.
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In fact, Chaos Theory predicts this exactly, in what has been commonly called the butterfly effect. It's pointless to worry about the largest consequences of our actions, though, because they were be impossible to determine.
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Zapno wrote:
I don't get the whole small changes equal big changes thing. If giant events were often triggered by small things wouldn't we have had a much more dangerous world? I mean whether or not you choose to move a box probably isn't going to blow up half a continent. It seems to me that although there could be rare occasions of huge changes it would most likely end up as relatively the same world. It is called the butterfly effect, for every action, there is a reaction. A example is a butterfly beats it's wings in japan and causes a tsunami on the other side of the world. unfortionatly you'll never be able to predict the effects of your actions. I don't really think we will be able to ever go into the past because the past is the past and it has happened already, but going into the future is something very possible. If it isn't time travel, it would be like, freezing people. | |
Yeah, I get that much. Thing is, I just don't think most small actions would create giant reactions. Some people act like tripping in the past will result in someone dieing. It's possible and all, just doesn't seem likely.
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And I can't imagine how they got accurate speed results testing over a 3ft range. The precision of the instruments would have to be insane :P.