Will time travel ever be possible?

Trade, that device was the inspiration to get
small radio devices in our pockets, but at the
time there were no phones.

Mike.
 

sarnialass said:
People have wisdom teeth, but few had syphilis, unless they slept around as it is asexually transmitted disease!:rolleyes:
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O-ka-a-y. Pulling wisdom teeth before gas and pain killers was no fun and have a sex disease before they were fixable was also no fun. Don't forget medical care for a wounded limb in the civil war was a saw.
 
Linda said:
What do you mean you have syphilis?? Everyone in the past didn't have syphilis. And we have wisdom teeth now too, unless you are like me and had them put you to sleep and take all 4 of them out. They had dentists back in the past too. They just had a different means of putting you to sleep. Give you a few swings of whiskey and a good knock on the head with an iron skillet. That wasn't so bad was it?:sentimental:
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Yes, EVERYONE in the past had syphilis! Now for teeth pulling you seem to forget in a lot of places there were no dentists, no doctors and no pain killers depending on the time and place. The irony is if the syphilis went long enough one could simply reach back and pull them out with fingers only.:) Do you know Al Capone had it at 18 years of age and never bothered to do anything about it? Sexy guy eh?
 

I think I agree with Gary. I don''t want to go backwards or forward. I know how my forebears lived.
They lived poorly. The future, I will read about when you return and publish your book.
 
Ken N Tx said:
I would like to go back and see how my ancestors lived..
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Same here. I do genealogy and some of my ancestors were pretty interesting. A ninth ggfather was a prosecutor in the Salem Witch Trials. I probably wouldn't visit him on account of how folks might take a visitor from the future suddenly appearing in their midst. Would likely end up hanging from the gallows!
 
Many years ago a notable physicist, I think Kip Thorne, showed that it is very theoretically possible but that is all.
Personally, I don't think so. We would have probably seen or heard about time travelers by now if they visited. It is not like television
or movies. wishful thinking. Obviously, there is no evidence whatsoever.
In a short story I read-- Jesus was a time traveler!
 
Scientist theorize that light from distant stars located in the Universe has not reached Earth yet. (wow) Maybe when we die and our soul moves to another dimension, our soul will Time Travel. It is not going to be possible in the dimension we now occupy.
 
norman said:
Scientist theorize that light from distant stars located in the Universe has not reached Earth yet. (wow) Maybe when we die and our soul moves to another dimension, our soul will Time Travel. It is not going to be possible in the dimension we now occupy.
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That is a fact and it illustrates the immensity of the universe that we often cnnot comprehend.
 
I'm not sure I follow you Olivia. Explain. Maybe some free will would be possible, very small decisions.

What makes you think free will exists now?
Leibniz once said that if a boulder rolling down a hill had a mind, it would believe that it
had free will rolling down the hill.
 
Victor said:
I'm not sure I follow you Olivia. Explain. Maybe some free will would be possible, very small decisions.

What makes you think free will exists now?
Leibniz once said that if a boulder rolling down a hill had a mind, it would believe that it
had free will rolling down the hill.
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I never said I thought that free will exists, although societies in general have to operate as if free will exists because otherwise there would be no justification for punishment.

Okay, if the future is there to visit, does that mean if you get to the future with time travel, that the future has already happened?
 
I think that, in theory, going back in time is possible. Going forward...not really, as it has not happened yet, so how can you go to a time that has not yet happened? An interesting movie, from the 90's (I think) was Millenium. It starred Kris Kristofferson. He was a NTSA plane crash investigator. It involved people who traveled back in time from the future to "collect" people to populate their own timeline, as the people were dying out. Actually a not bad movie.

Then, of course, if you could travel back, and could change a historic event, would you? SHOULD you?
 
Olivia said:
I never said I thought that free will exists, although societies in general have to operate as if free will exists because otherwise there would be no justification for punishment.

Okay, if the future is there to visit, does that mean if you get to the future with time travel, that the future has already happened?
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Time travel is not like driving from point A to point B. Yesterday happened but it cannot be duplicated like a Broadway play. So thinking we can go to the past and future like a bus trip is wrong.
 
Personally, I find the notion of traveling to the past more attractive than traveling to the future, although most people would find themselves uncomfortable coping with everyday life as it existed just a hundred years ago. We've been spoiled by many modern conveniences, and I fear that the future holds some fundamental restructurings and darker things...
 
Scientific knowledge has accepted determinism more than ever in recent decades. This is the view that everything is caused to happen, and in humans, by the brain (neurons) that we have yet to totally understand. So it leaves small room for free will. It cannot be proven either way. Fate is different--that says that there is no choice at all, nothing could be different than what has happened and will happen. I don't believe in fate, strictly, but I agree that most things have causes. (My choice of clothes today was not caused.) So time travel into the future is impossible, unless future time is fated. I don't see how past time travel is possible either, except in theory.
Eventually, maybe the past could be viewed through an enormously powerful telescope from outer space, light years away.
 
Time travel is impossible. Scientist speak of stars that are billions of light years away, they should be required to indicate how many Earth years in distantce they are talking about before they publish this rubbish. I am not totally convinced that the earth in not flat.
 
Victor said:
Scientific knowledge has accepted determinism more than ever in recent decades. This is the view that everything is caused to happen, and in humans, by the brain (neurons) that we have yet to totally understand. So it leaves small room for free will. It cannot be proven either way. Fate is different--that says that there is no choice at all, nothing could be different than what has happened and will happen. I don't believe in fate, strictly, but I agree that most things have causes. (My choice of clothes today was not caused.) So time travel into the future is impossible, unless future time is fated. I don't see how past time travel is possible either, except in theory.
Eventually, maybe the past could be viewed through an enormously powerful telescope from outer space, light years away.
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Free will vs. No Free will always be an unending debate. It really revolves around one's philosophy of life and how either belief impacts that.
 
Marie5656 said:
I think that, in theory, going back in time is possible. Going forward...not really, as it has not happened yet, so how can you go to a time that has not yet happened? An interesting movie, from the 90's (I think) was Millenium. It starred Kris Kristofferson. He was a NTSA plane crash investigator. It involved people who traveled back in time from the future to "collect" people to populate their own timeline, as the people were dying out. Actually a not bad movie.

Then, of course, if you could travel back, and could change a historic event, would you? SHOULD you?
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One thing I don't understand that maybe the question has been examined more thoroughly in philosophically leaning forums, is if a person is able to go far back in time, how is it that he/she would still exist before they were born? And same thing going forward to the future, after one has already died? Or would one going back or forward mean being in another dimension during that time and having no influence in changing anything while there. In other words being somewhere outside of time?
 
In our three-dimensional universe, and with our current understanding of how time works, time travel is impossible. But it may all be a lot stranger than we can imagine.
 
Olivia said:
One thing I don't understand that maybe the question has been examined more thoroughly in philosophically leaning forums, is if a person is able to go far back in time, how is it that he/she would still exist before they were born? And same thing going forward to the future, after one has already died? Or would one going back or forward mean being in another dimension during that time and having no influence in changing anything while there. In other words being somewhere outside of time?
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Like a fly on rhe wall,you can see it but do nothing to change it..As others have said,there is no future because it has not happened yet..
 
norman said:
Time travel is impossible. Scientist speak of stars that are billions of light years away, they should be required to indicate how many Earth years in distantce they are talking about before they publish this rubbish. I am not totally convinced that the earth in not flat.
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Google wormhole and you find you are alone in your opinion.
 
Ken N Tx said:
Like a fly on rhe wall,you can see it but do nothing to change it..As others have said,there is no future because it has not happened yet..
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So there is no present either....but there is. Soon I will finish this post and that is in the future and I guarantee it is going to happen...……….
 
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