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Is time travel possible?

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  • ?
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Yes. I am currently time traveling at a rate of 1 sec/sec. It seems to be stuck as I can't seem to change the rate.

  • 1 decade ago

    There are many theories, often not accepted by most physicists, that backwards time travel is possible, however mathematically and physically that is, on the whole, impossible. However, forward time travel is physically and mathematically possible, although the means in which to do it are so far-fetched it is mostly considered a fleeting pipe-dream. There are many theories concerning forwards time travel. Time-dilation using velocity to travel near the speed of light to a distant object and return at near the speed of light would seem to the traveler as though they have time traveled. This works because as you approach the speed of light special relativity says the time for the traveler will have almost come to a stop, therefore years will have passed on Earth but to the traveler a very small amount of time has passed. There is also gravitational time dilation in which one could somehow exist near the even horizon of a black hole or an extremely massive object and the distortion, or time dilation of that object will be larger for the traveler than normal space.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    We have not figured out how to travel back in time. We have however found out that we can travel forward in time. This has more to do with the aging proses though. If you have two twins who are exactly alike in every way possible, and you put one an a jet that travels really fast. It wouldn't be very noticeable unless on the plane for a long time such as years, but once the twin on the plane came back, you could compare the two twins. The twin who had been on the plane would have aged less then the one who was on ground. This would make the twin from the plane have the illusion that he had just travels forward in time. Its a very interesting concept that is hard to explain. They can explain it better here http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/hotsciencetw... Read up on it cause its really cool

  • ?
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    That's what you and every body else is doing at present, we are going from one now on to the other. Look at a clock and you can see time elapsing as we move through it, from present to future which becomes your present. So yes we all are time travelers.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Well... it's very controversial. The thing is that time and light is connected. If you could travel at the speed of light it would be possible. If you were to go into space at the speed of light, the light u 5affects the vision of things around you. Then as it might take you 5 years to travel to mars and back, by the time you were back your human friends might be 70. But as far as scientists know, time travel is not possible.

  • Bob D1
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    It is, kinda, but it isn't exactly. In theory, there exist a number of different ways to travel into the future but they're not very satisfying or practical. Nonetheless, I can see a time down the road a piece where it will be possible to travel, with precision, to both the past or the future. Our technology just isn't there yet.

    See: Large Hadron Collider could be world's first time machine

    http://www.kurzweilai.net/large-hadron-collider-co...

    See: Will We Travel Back (Or Forward) in Time?

    http://www.time.com/time/reports/v21/science/time....

    I believe that we can make it happen!

    Source(s): self
  • 1 decade ago

    Yes, Someday, somewere. If u really like time travle watch Doctor who

  • ?
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    No, never mind all the clever answers.

  • 1 decade ago

    Yeah right, in your dreams.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    100% fake

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