@thepaleone How awesome would that be?! Physics was the area of science I found most difficult to understand (for me, Biology all just made sense, but Physics gave me a headache). I think it’s great, I know it’s super important and I love listening to people who understand it speak about it, but I have to work really hard to try and keep up with their head space! I think that in theory, there are a few ways that time travel (forwards, backwards, or both) should be possible, but whether we can make it a reality for anything other that teeny bit of atoms – I just don’t know. I’d like to think yes, but the fact I haven’t met any tourists from the future makes me unsure. Maybe they’re just really ethical and don’t want to change anything by coming back to visit?
What I do know is that if you leave on a plane from New Zealand, you can arrive in America at an earlier time on the same date than you departed NZ. Does that count? 🙂
Hard to say. I’m sure people believe they can invent something to allow time travel but I doubt anything will happen in my lifetime. A brilliant scientist by the name of Stephen Hawking says that we should be able to move forward in time (travelling faster than speed of light, if that was ever possible) so who am I to argue with that?
Unfortunately, I think the laws of physics disappoint a lot of people in this regard…from everything we know about how cause and effect works, and Einstein’s laws of relativity, there is no way to accelerate anything (like a person) faster than the speed of light — which is what would be necessary to move “backward” in time instead of forward.
The question of whether we can get around this universal speed limit by doing something besides going faster and faster is a really good one, but even the very smartest scientists in the world have not figured out a way to do it yet. But maybe we’re just waiting for someone even smarter to come along…
@thepaleone How awesome would that be?! Physics was the area of science I found most difficult to understand (for me, Biology all just made sense, but Physics gave me a headache). I think it’s great, I know it’s super important and I love listening to people who understand it speak about it, but I have to work really hard to try and keep up with their head space! I think that in theory, there are a few ways that time travel (forwards, backwards, or both) should be possible, but whether we can make it a reality for anything other that teeny bit of atoms – I just don’t know. I’d like to think yes, but the fact I haven’t met any tourists from the future makes me unsure. Maybe they’re just really ethical and don’t want to change anything by coming back to visit?
What I do know is that if you leave on a plane from New Zealand, you can arrive in America at an earlier time on the same date than you departed NZ. Does that count? 🙂
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Hard to say. I’m sure people believe they can invent something to allow time travel but I doubt anything will happen in my lifetime. A brilliant scientist by the name of Stephen Hawking says that we should be able to move forward in time (travelling faster than speed of light, if that was ever possible) so who am I to argue with that?
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Unfortunately, I think the laws of physics disappoint a lot of people in this regard…from everything we know about how cause and effect works, and Einstein’s laws of relativity, there is no way to accelerate anything (like a person) faster than the speed of light — which is what would be necessary to move “backward” in time instead of forward.
The question of whether we can get around this universal speed limit by doing something besides going faster and faster is a really good one, but even the very smartest scientists in the world have not figured out a way to do it yet. But maybe we’re just waiting for someone even smarter to come along…
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