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Time travel question.?

Okay so I know there's an answer for this, but no one I've run across knows what it is so I'm going to defer to the top contributors' wisdom. For the sake of argument let's say time travel is already possible. If there is a proportioanl amount of matter and energy in the universe, and you traveled to the future, wouldn't you be removing matter (and not converting it into energy) from your timeline and upsetting that balance? What effect would that have (if any)? And if it would have no effect, why not?

Update:

Winston: Ah so you cannot "pop" out of the past into the future. You TRAVEL through time so nothing has been "removed"?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    No.

    The conservation of matter/energy laws are not violated in time traveling to the future, because nothing is being "moved" from one time to another. Time is passing at a different rate for the time traveler... so he is still present during the period when time passes, it just passes at a different rate for that person.

    Source(s): Time Dilation Relativity
  • 1 decade ago

    With infinite possibilities and infinite realities, matter transferring from one dimension to another (3rd space 4th time) would ultimately cancel each other out. By trans locating your pattern from one point in time to another, would be like a cut and paste on the computer. The data still exists and the energy and matter would still be in the universe, It would just be relocated to a different dimensional point of reference that is outside of 3rd dimensional physics. There is a question of multiple copies of ones self interacting with the same universe (If you were able to travel, a lot of alternate "You's" would be able to do the same, and what would happen if that occurred in the same 3rd dimensional space. Thus "Cannot occupy the same space at the same time" comes into play. We don't effectively create a universe by an altered time line, but we fill a vacuum by dong so (and causing balance in that alternate universe which would allow another you to do the same to your original time line.

  • Thought provoking Question !

    No, nothing can be removed!

    For an argument if we could travel in future, we can just observe what happens in future. On returning back to the present, we will loose all things stored in our memory during travel and restored to present condition.

    Past, Present & Future are the events which are already predefined by nature. Only in the Present we can act at that moment. Past and future we can see only. Nothing of the past or future can be altered by our effort while in time travel if at all possible. Again past memories only will be stored in our brain. What we saw in future will get erased automatically while we come back to present.

    This is my level of understanding.

  • 1 decade ago

    Heh, thats an interesting thought. I guess that makes time travel an even more impossible concept than I originally thought. Basically, by our current laws of physics, it can never happen due to it causing loopholes etc... so the effect matter removal would have to me, would be something similar to a loophole that wouldn't make sense to anyone.

    If you get what I mean.

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  • 1 decade ago

    If the universe contains multiple timelines, then matter is neither created nor destroyed during time travel, it's just moved. Thus the laws of physics are not violated.

  • 1 decade ago

    Finding all with helping y=e^x. It is just for timetraveling.For any parameters.

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