Time travel is ABSOLUTELY impossible.
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I continue to be amazed at people's gullability in regards to the idea of time travel. It is a most universal desire.
It is absolutely impossible.
The reason I say this so strongly is that I know that it's so. Think about this for a moment. Time is a concept. One cannot travel through a concept.
Time is what people use to the explain the phenomenon of rearrangement of matter. Things are in a different configuration so it is a different 'time'. The only difference from one 'time' to another is the position of all of the matter and energy in the entire universe. To revisit another 'time' would be to observe the precise configuration of all matter in a previous state. Now check you thermodynamics pocket guide, and the relativity manuals you were issued and immagine the energy required to restore every particle and quark to a previous state simultaneously without using any energy from the universe; you can't siphon your own gas tank! And this is further complicated by the theoretical presense of the observer in the data set. Adding 165lbs of matter to the total massof the universe may not be a good thing.
Now recreating the position and vectors for all matter and energy is one problem, but the database to store the coordinate and vector data for all those objects for an infinitely resolved universe is going to HAVE to be quick!
Simply stated. time does not exist. There is only one instance of existance and it's now.
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It is absolutely impossible.
The reason I say this so strongly is that I know that it's so. Think about this for a moment. Time is a concept. One cannot travel through a concept.
Time is what people use to the explain the phenomenon of rearrangement of matter. Things are in a different configuration so it is a different 'time'. The only difference from one 'time' to another is the position of all of the matter and energy in the entire universe. To revisit another 'time' would be to observe the precise configuration of all matter in a previous state. Now check you thermodynamics pocket guide, and the relativity manuals you were issued and immagine the energy required to restore every particle and quark to a previous state simultaneously without using any energy from the universe; you can't siphon your own gas tank! And this is further complicated by the theoretical presense of the observer in the data set. Adding 165lbs of matter to the total massof the universe may not be a good thing.
Now recreating the position and vectors for all matter and energy is one problem, but the database to store the coordinate and vector data for all those objects for an infinitely resolved universe is going to HAVE to be quick!
Simply stated. time does not exist. There is only one instance of existance and it's now.