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BLU_Spy wrote:

epicepicman wrote:

Guys guys guys, your doing it all wrong! It's common knowledge that you can travel 7 years into the future and back by learning a song on your magical ocarina and pulling a sword out of the ground! 

Anyways, I saw this show once that said time travel might be possible if you can make something move faster than the speed of light. And scientists have discovered particles that move faster than light, so if you stuff a bunch of those into a time machine, mission accomplished. You would only be able to go into the future though, so we wouldn't be able to discover an exact account of history or anything.

But how will the person come back to the present?




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Whatever. ALL FOR SCIENCE.


EDIT: This is the best thread ever.

THAT'S WHAT I ALWAYS SAY

You can't go NEGATIVE the speed of light. Your velocity may be negative, but NOT YOUR SPEED.

So glad that I am responsible for turning this thread into a fun jokey mad house.

All you honestly need is a wormhole for the most BASIC type of time-travel.

BLU_Spy wrote:

I also think that you could make clones with time-travel. You just need to send the person to the same place, at like a second ago.

Hmmmm... Never thought of that. Maybe I should try it. 

Of course time travel is possible. The faster you go, the slower time goes for you, so the faster you travel through time. And gravity also affects time similarly to speed.

that was a terrible joke

I was thinking about this for a long time, and I'm not sure how it would work:

So let's say a guy went back in time and made another guy want to kill him. The guy that wanted to kill him ended up killing him in the future after the time traveler did whatever made the guy angry. So, would the guy die instantly, or only once he gets back to the present day?

Also, if someone went back in time and changed history, would the changes happen before or after the person goes back in time?

epicepicman wrote:

Also, if someone went back in time and changed history, would the changes happen before or after the person goes back in time?

Paradox!

But what if in the future the world has been seized by evil robots controlled by an ultra evil supercomputer originally designed for military purposes that became self aware and reprogrammed itself to destroy the human race, and then some dude leads the human resistance, and then the supercomputer devises some genius plot to send some cyborg bodybuilder back to the year 1984 to assassinate this dude's mother before he was born in order to effectively erase him from existence and allow the machines to freely continue ruling the planet, and then the humans are like "two can play at that game" and sends a soldier back to protect this woman whose son could decide the fate of the earth, and then this soldier ends up actually impregnating her and becoming the leader's father, creating an enclosed time loop/predestination paradox but then gets killed off, and this woman defeats the evil cyborg and lives on with her life to raise her son and prepare him to lead the resistance in the future!

(wow I actually summed up the entire first terminator movie in one sentence.)

But seriously though the whole Kyle Reese being John Connor's biological father is a pretty crazy paradox if you ask me...

Last edited by banana500 (2013-02-22 23:34:59)

Also what about Chrono Trigger?
That's like one of the best video games ever conceived
And no one mentions it
On this topic, of all places.

all you need is a wardrobe made from apple tree from another dimension...

Agg725 wrote:

time travel is logically impossible. for one: two time periods cannot exist at once. second: the whole world would have to travel with you. it would not be sensible because it would kill the world's present population, including the traveler

Those are not necessarily true at all.
1. Nobody knows how time works. For all we know, the present only one of many presents.

2. No, the whole world would not have to travel with you. You go back to the past world.

Last edited by ImagineIt (2013-02-23 09:18:43)