Comments on: Renowned Physicist Says Time Travel Is Not Only Possible, But Likely

By: Kevin M

Kevin M — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:02:15 +0000

Time travel?

Shit, that’s easy!

Get on board Saudi Arabian Airlines and by the time you’ve landed in Riyadh, you have to set your watch back 600 years.

By: Bill Smith

Bill Smith — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:08:48 +0000

There once was a fellow named White
Whose speed was much faster than light
He took off one day
In a Relative way
And returned on the previous night!

By: Brian H

Brian H — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:13:10 +0000

Bill;
My memory goes (from the book “1,2,3, Infinity”, George Gamow):
There was a young lady named Bright
Who could travel much faster than light!
She took off one day
In a relative way,
And came back on the previous night!

Actually, future time travellers have been messing around with history all along. You don’t notice because your memories are revised each time they make a change.

By: Arthuraria

Arthuraria — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:26:47 +0000

Sooo….with time travel…unless your time travel device is portable and comes with you, wouldn’t that be a one way ticket to the past? (Where the time travel device doesn’t exist yet). Or is gonna be like that tv show Sliders where it’s like a remote control…no, wait…that’s alternate realities…I’m so confused!

I’ll tell you one thing…if I could travel back in time…I’d go back and kill muhammed in the crib. That would be worth a one way ticket.

By: DC

DC — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:48:06 +0000

Only one big problem….the time paradox.
If time travel was possible, then we should have seen or experienced time travellers from our future who have gone back into their past. But because there mere presence in our time, would have corrupted the timeline.

By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:51:01 +0000

“time”…is a figment of human imagination. ‘Time’ exists nowhere else in the universe, but in the mind of man. ‘Time’ is a construct mankind created to assuage fear; an attempt to create order out of what our limited intellect perceives as chaos. ‘Time’ does not “stand still” at the speed of light and we cannot “travel” through ‘time’…except in our imaginations.

Beyond this…

I agree with KevinM. This cult, known as islam would have us all travel back in time…to a place ruled by barbaric impulse.

By: ArleighB

ArleighB — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:46:13 +0000

Time is natures way of insuring that everything doesn’t happen all at once…

By: Dan (The Infidel)

Dan (The Infidel) — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:04:34 +0000

Reminds me of the “Time Portal” episode in Star Trek. So where’s the “acravicon” again? I bet Mr Atos knows. LOL

By: KBar

KBar — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:55:32 +0000

At least we’ll be ready when SkyNet becomes “self-aware”.

By: Marc Stockwell-Moniz

Marc Stockwell-Moniz — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:08:42 +0000

Take me back to the Battle of Bunker Hill.

By: TTS

TTS — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:24:47 +0000

Time travel is irrelevant. Judgment day is inevitable…

By: RememberOurFathers

RememberOurFathers — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:08:42 +0000

TTS
AMEN Brother.

But for the sake of discussion, time is only the measurement of the earth rotating on its axis and revolving around the sun. thats it, its just a measurement of a physical reality, there is no past, just memories and current existence. nothing more, nothing less. the future is just as impossible to reach because there is no seperate existence, just this one, how can you go someplace that doesnt exist? Besides, when Christ returns, everything as we know it will change forever.

By: sal

sal — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:38:35 +0000

somebody stole my FLUX CAPASITOR

By: hegelbot

hegelbot — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:54:32 +0000

Arthuraria “I’ll tell you one thing…if I could travel back in time…I’d go back and kill muhammed in the crib. That would be worth a one way ticket.”

don’t think it could work that way, the only sensible theory of time travel like in Heinlein books and some other follow this is that time is a uniform continuum so anything that will happen in the future as far as time travel has already been reflected in our historical development. So no one ever will go back in time and kill Mohammad in the crib, because no one has already…lol.

anyway i kind of like Douglas Adams take on it “time is an illusion, lunch time doubly so…”

doesn’t the establishment clause require the separation of sci-fi and the church, all this talk of revelation is a real bummer, forget about Satan, or skynet, i worried about the dalek’s earth invasion 2100.

By: RENO

RENO — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:49:32 +0000

if you are traveling down a 2 lane road and you step on the gas you just encounter the oncoming cars sooner that you would have if you traveled at the slower speed. you did not go into the future. same thing with traveling at the speed of light. it is your “relative” position in space.

Charles is right about the time issue.

By: Brian H

Brian H — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:24:38 +0000

Arleigh;
Actually, everything DID happen all at once. We just haven’t noticed yet. :roll::eek: