I know how to time travel.....

[Awesomeness!!]

Look up at the night sky, hell look at the Sun. YOu're not seeing the sun as it is right now, you're seeing it as it ws 8 or so mins ago. The same for stars in the sky. You're really seeing the star (or how it looked) maybe millions of years ago, depending on the star, because it takes the light so long to rach us. I'm sure you already knew that. Anyway, if you could travel faster than light, say, 100 million times faster than light, and you got in your rocketship, and blasted off, and you're rocket ship was on course to land whereever the Earth was..say 100 years ago, you would travel to the Earth 100 years in the fast. Einstein said that time and space were connected, and since all Space exist right now, all time must also exist right now. Which means, Next week, has already happened.....or, is happening right now we just haven't lived it yet. But that also means the past must be happening right now....if you could just get to it..........

Now all we need is a rocketship that can go 100 million times faster than light..:auto:

[pstall]

Light is bent over X # of years. Due to that, the ability to lower our molecules to allow us to bend the same way is impossible because we are static and not trending forward.

[Awesomeness!!]

I've don't think a macroscopic object like a typical space probe or a rocketship could make the trip, but a microscopic object with very...very little mass could. I've always pictured something like that..'riding' on a light beam, but somehow making the light go faster than light by giving it a boost of some sorts. Keep in mind, light does have mass. It pusses on objects when it hits something. Photons have mass, so a microscopic probe of some sorts could ride on a light beam..its possible..

[pstall]

Too many assumptions of variables falling into place. I do think it's possible, but not on the terms we have been taught.

I think something outside the rules has to be able to interject to "break" all the rules.

We can only project and assume the outcomes are time travelled has happened.

[Delhommey]

Time travel in relation to moving forward in time at various rates is already achievable. Time travel as far as moving backwards in time may be physically impossible.

[Awesomeness!!]

Actually this entire thread was written to argue that going FTL took you back into time...........so......

[pstall]

Nope. On our terms we understand one level. There are levels above ours that we can't comprehend. This fits perfectly into time travel.

To flat out quantify it for our bicameral orbs. We would truly need to meet someone from the future to get it.

My youngest brought this up the other day. Dad, I don't think we would really want to time travel. Why I asked? Because we get older but really because we are better off in the present.

[Skew]

We've had this conversation already. Travel back into time to the day we talked about it and it will be the thread at the top of the page.

[pstall]

We've had this conversation already. Travel back into time to the day we talked about it and it will be the thread at the top of the page.

I think that's a great idea. :hurray:

[Jangler]

I'm just going to get high and live in the moment.

[Razzy]

I don't think it would be physically possible to travel anywhere close to the speed of light, much less FTL. Since energy particles (light) have a wave/particle duality and since matter is merely energy condensed and vibrating and a specific frequency, I have a hunch that accelerating to the speed of light would first cause you to become infinitely massive at the atomic level until your atomic structure would essentially "break" into subatomic particles. Remember, there is no such thing as solid. Things are essentially only held together by magnetic bonds and solid is a result of perception. That kind of speed would only be possible on this level, where something can have both the properties of a particle and a wave; it occupies space but has no mass.

One way might be to manipulate gravity "around" an object by somehow manipulating and accelerating the particles around the object, essentially "pushing" the object on a wave of particles that is less massive in the front and more massive in the rear where they have been accelerated. We don't have this technology, yet.

[jasonluckydog]

Can you go back in time and make this stop?

[Jangler]

Why?

[PeteRozelle]

IF you are able to go 100 times the speed of light, would your rocket ship headlights serve their purpose?