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Time Travel
TV, movies and comics all love the concept of time travel in one fashion or another.
IT just gives me a headache to be honest but curious what is everyone's thoughts on time travel.
Is it possible?
If it is what school do you believe in a fluid time where one event effects another or a fixed path where life is unchanging?
Do you believe that events that happened because someone time travelled will always have happened if the person never time travelled.
I don't know just something been thinking about since a certain show returned.
As far as I know the most plausible way to time travel is to open a worm hole and then sometime later open a connecting one which should allow you to travel back to the point the first one was opened. Other than that I'm not sure about going further back or into the future. Well I suppose you could go into the future through that same wormhole if someone opened a connecting one up later on.
I think there are infinite timelines based on every little change leaving the future as fluid. So say a psychic can accurately predict something, one should be able to change that future from happening.
Getting rid of time travel was the best move Heroes ever made.
You invent a time machine, go back in time and kill yourself, but that means you have never time traveled because you were dead, so you never actually came from the future and killed yourself, so actually you did invent the time machine and intended to kill yourself, you killed yourself in the past, but that means you have never time traveled because--
Remember when Daniel told Desmond the coordinates (or something) back in the 4th season, and wanted him to pass it on to the past-Daniel? Then Daniel uses those coordinates to come to the island. But how could he have learned the coordinates without ever going to the island in the first place? And how could he have got to the island without knowing the coordinates?
And there was also something about the rat in Dan's lab as well, but can't remember it right now..
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Re: Time Travel
Time Travel in general gives me a headache.
Heroes seems to follow a fluid belief of time travel where you can prevent the past to change the future which means there has been a lot of time travelling and showing what may or may not happen.
Also we have sight seers so you have people trying to prevent fates they know by avoiding them but running smack into them. Would it have happened if they didn't know?
X-MEn which I'm sure Heroes took its cues from also suffers from a similar fate which is made even worse when you got parents hanging out with their future offsprings.
Future time travel is definitely possible. We all do it everyday, every time you get in a car and drive, every time you walk to the fridge, you're time traveling to the future. The time difference is just too small to notice.
If, however, you got into a very fast spaceship, something nearing the speed of light, then you would easily notice the time difference. Time traveling to the future is part and parcel with Einstein's general theory of relativity.
Time traveling to the past is when things get kooky.
I'm sure it's flawed, inaccurate, and simplified to a flaw....but for people like me who suck at physics it's like a drug trip without the euphoric awesomeness
Anyway, time travel is awesome. Back to the Future, Terminator, 12 Monkeys...
There is always that paradox, "if time travel was possible wouldn't someone from the future have come back by now." But, how can they come back if time travel hasn't been invented yet?
I dunno, in my basic physics 101 class my prof said time behaves like a vector that moves in one direction. Wouldn't surprise me if theories of time travel can somehow be supported using complex math.
Time travel is easily possible, just not in the reasonable concepts TV and movies put it into.
As someone stated below, every time you basically move anywhere - you're traveling forward in time.
If you go into space, and remain there for long periods of time, and then come back to Earth, you will have aged at a less rapid rate than people on the planet.
To travel in time is to travel faster than the speed of light, and since everything has a mass, minus light - and in order to go faster you need to produce more energy in relation to how much mass you have, you will need an infinite amount of energy even if you have relatively no mass.
Now, there is a theory that states something like :
Picture a piece of paper, put a dot at one end, and a dot at the other. It would take a long time to draw a line between those two dots as is - but if you fold the paper up, and line the dots up and poke a hole through the paper - you're instantly at the other dot, and didn't have to go through the middle of the paper.
Demetri Martin said it best: "I have a time machine at home. But it only travels forward in time, at normal speed. It's more just like a cardboard box with 'Time Machine' written on it."
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I think it's bullocks. Time is not a dimension, it's a name. Stuff doesn't stay the same because it changes, so we say time passes. It's not like you can move back in a dimension.
The past is gone. The future doesn't exist yet. There is no paper with a line on it. There's just 1 point, the present. Does it move? In comparison to what? There is nothing else to move in, so you might as well say it doesn't move.
But I absolutely love time travel in entertainment media. I love finding the silly paradoxes.
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People from the future who travel back to our time abide by a code that insists that they keep their travel a secret from us. Everyday, we walk among beings from the future. They dress themselves to look like us because if we knew when they were from, it would cause pandemonium.
I think it's bullocks. Time is not a dimension, it's a name.
Actually, time isn't a name, it is a dimension. Clock time is made up, we created that - however we did not make up the progression of time.
Remember, just because we can't do something yet, doesn't mean it isn't possible.
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