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Do you think time travel exists, and if so, do you see it becoming available in the next 20 years ??

wildbill83 · 36-40, M
no; because time travel would violate causality and/or create a paradox that can not exist in linear time. The grandfather paradox for example; If you could go back in time and kill your grandfather before your father was born; you could never have been born; and as such, would not have the opportunity to travel back in time to kill him to begin with.

However, it may be possible if the multiverse theory holds true; whereas any travel forwards or backwards through time would result in arrival in an alternate universe so similar to this one, that you wouldn't even be aware that you were in a differing universe; one in which causality would diverge from this one upon your point of arrival (basically, you'd be stuck in a universe/universes of your own creation/influence)

But of course, there are plenty of other problems regarding time travel, a few examples;

1) the butterfly effect; even the slightest, seemingly inconsequential changes to the past could have a massive effect on the future (creating numerous paradoxes); something as simple and benign as being in the wrong place at the wrong time could create a chain of events throughout time that prevent you from ever having been born

2) time travel would have to take location into account as well; given the rotational speed of the planet, it's revolution around the sun, the solar systems movement through the milky way galaxy, the galaxy's movement through the universe, etc. that even when standing still, you're moving at over 1.3 million miles per hour (2.1 million km/hr) through space itself; In other words, without knowing the location of relevant moving celestial bodies based on a fixed position (that does not exist as far as we know), even traveling forwards or backwards a few seconds could result in being hundreds or even millions of miles away from Earth upon arrival...

3) Fermi Paradox; if time travel were possible/becomes so at some undetermined point in the future, then why has no one ever met a time traveler?

4) how would a time machine even look/function? For starters, it would need the ability to accelerate an object with mass (you) beyond the speed of light; something that is physically impossible in quantum physics. The energy requirements to accelerate a mere subatomic to just near/sub light speed are astronomical, so you'd probably need more power than the entire planet/all of mankind could generate in a given amount of time.
If it ever were to exist, it must be in the hands of the elite few, because if it ever were to exist, it would always exist, and if it were accessible to just anyone, we would already know about it.
MrBrownstone · 46-50, M
@Native You can clone yourself but not many people know that.
JustNik · 51-55, F
Geez I hope not. Can you imagine what humans would do with that?? 😖
greenmountaingal · 70-79, F
I have a feeling that there are some who know all about it.
SW-User
I don't know if it exists but if it does I will be the first in line to get out of this crazy place and go back in time.
AlmostAnAngel · 100+, F
Would that make you GrandmasLateNightCrush then?🤪
@AlmostAnAngel im gonna have more kids than i know how to keep up with. LOL
AlmostAnAngel · 100+, F
5thApprentice · 31-35, M
I doubt it but ya never know, man. Within a lifetime the world has become such a different place.
SaxonAZ · 51-55, M
Coast to Coast has done this topic several times.
@SaxonAZ i enjoy listening to that show. i just dont get a chance to very often.
SaxonAZ · 51-55, M
@YourMomsSecretCrush I've listened off and on for years. If I happen to be awake that late, or the few times I've worked late hours.
CharlieZ · 70-79, M
My friend,
There IS a BIG time machine, called Universe.
It only travels to the Future.
Platoscave · F
It already exists. Ask the people who have gone through that. They'll tell you ;=)
DragonFruit · 61-69, M
I travel through time at a rate of 24 hours each day! 😁
SaxonAZ · 51-55, M
If it does, I'm going back to the 70s.
zainababbas · 22-25, F
Yes it exists, in my fantasy
TJNewton · M
I will let you know last week

 
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