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Not reverse time travel (ie somebody arriving from thee future), but forward time travel. Sometime in the future, it will be possible to travel further into the future to bring back information, technology etc.
This thereby avoids the paradoxes which reverse time travel would incur.

If traveling backwards in time will be forever impossible, how are you going to bring technology back to the present?

Besides, I don't agree with the reasoning behind the special threory of relativity.

If time travel were possible, we'd all be dead. Someone from the future is bound to have screwed us up somehow, like kill Hitler or something.

Lol, the OP hung his own idea. Nice.

Time travel is no more possible than color travel.

Time is simply a measuring scheme for cause-effect, much like colour is a measuring scheme for light wavelengths.

I don't think the question of time travel is important a better question would be where would you go with so much time yet so little time yourself.

In other words give up the complex physics and have fun time will fly by thus you can travel to the future!

Lol, the OP hung his own idea. Nice.

Not cool.

OP stands for "only I know what this means, therefore I'm smart".

Right?

Of course it's possible...we're all travelling forward into the future, just very slowly...a minute at a time.

Jumping ahead to a time, I'd say not possible, because there's nothing there to jump to, hasn't happened yet, just like there's no tangible past, only records, memories, etc.

Lol, the OP hung his own idea. Nice.


OP meaning original poster?
Well I didn't but as you don't appear to be overly endowed woth brains, I'll help you.

If my special machine sent me to the year 2030, I would spend a bit of time there, before I pressed the recall button on my belt. This would return me to the point and time of origin. It wouldn't be going back in time, simply returning to the 2006.
I couldn't create a paradox as it would return me to the exact same time I left.

OP meaning original poster?
Well I didn't but as you don't appear to be overly endowed woth brains, I'll help you.

If my special machine sent me to the year 2030, I would spend a bit of time there, before I pressed the recall button on my belt. This would return me to the point and time of origin. It wouldn't be going back in time, simply returning to the 2006.
I couldn't create a paradox as it would return me to the exact same time I left.
Space...
The final frontier...
These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise!

I'm travelling through time right now.

It wouldn't be going back in time, simply returning to the 2006.
....

I'm travelling through time right now.

Me too.

I'm further ahead than you!

Lol, the OP hung his own idea. Nice.
yeah, I noticed that too. It's hilarious though. :p

OP meaning original poster?
Well I didn't but as you don't appear to be overly endowed woth brains, I'll help you.

If my special machine sent me to the year 2030, I would spend a bit of time there, before I pressed the recall button on my belt. This would return me to the point and time of origin. It wouldn't be going back in time, simply returning to the 2006.
I couldn't create a paradox as it would return me to the exact same time I left.

But, what if the information you brought back changed things and screwed up something in 2030?

OP meaning original poster?
If my special machine sent me to the year 2030, I would spend a bit of time there, before I pressed the recall button on my belt. This would return me to the point and time of origin. It wouldn't be going back in time, simply returning to the 2006.
I couldn't create a paradox as it would return me to the exact same time I left.

I) If you're going BACK to 2006 what direction in time have you travelled? How is that different form travellign bkac form 2006?

II) Surly if someone form the future came back to change something that change would've already happend and be part of our history and present sicne they'd've already been back in time and done whatever ti was they did?

Not cool.

OP stands for "only I know what this means, therefore I'm smart".

Right?

Em no, OP=Opening Post/Poster. He said time travel into the past was not possible, then mentioned travelling back to this time from the future, i.e. into the past.

Of course time travel is possible – whenever I misbehaved as a child my father would knock me into the next week. ;)

OP meaning original poster?
Well I didn't but as you don't appear to be overly endowed woth brains, I'll help you.

If my special machine sent me to the year 2030, I would spend a bit of time there, before I pressed the recall button on my belt. This would return me to the point and time of origin. It wouldn't be going back in time, simply returning to the 2006.
I couldn't create a paradox as it would return me to the exact same time I left.
Perhaps you should explain your ideas properly before you insult people who can't understand them.
2006--->2030=Forward in time
2030--->2006=Backward in time

Traveling forward in time is extremely easy, every time you fly on a plane you do so. Relativistic effects when you move means that for you time moves slower, it's more noticable as you move faster. Once you move at a signifigant fraction of the speed of light it's very noticable.

Traveling forward in time is extremely easy, every time you fly on a plane you do so. Relativistic effects when you move means that for you time moves slower, it's more noticable as you move faster. Once you move at a signifigant fraction of the speed of light it's very noticable.

Explain - as far as I am aware seeing things a different time than when they happened is not time travel as you're not there - you are jsut seeing an image of what happend then - no time travel involved.

Like looking into space - it's not time travel as the star light is reaching us in the presant even if it was emitted and relfected off things years ago it's jsut like a recording - wathcignt a recordign is not travelling back in time it jsut shows us what is there.

Though you're movey one might be diffreent so please elaborate.

OP meaning original poster?
Well I didn't but as you don't appear to be overly endowed woth brains, I'll help you.

If my special machine sent me to the year 2030, I would spend a bit of time there, before I pressed the recall button on my belt. This would return me to the point and time of origin. It wouldn't be going back in time, simply returning to the 2006.
I couldn't create a paradox as it would return me to the exact same time I left.
"Overly endowed woth brains?" what the hell? You're assuming the future is fluid, which is bullshit. "I just press the recall button," that's the same as reverse time travel!

I've heard this theory of Time travel before. The idea seems to be that nothing can be projected into a time in which the molecules involved were in use somewhere else. For instance, before the creation of the time maching in question, the electronic components involved were sitting on a shelf in some warehouse.
For it to be possible to travel back in time, it would have to be possible for the molecules of the parts in question to be able to exist simultaneously in the warehouse, and as part of your time maching (clearly imposible without some screwy physics).
The reasoning as I've always heard it, is that traveling to a time where the machine already exists eliminates this problem, thus making it possible.

Of course, you could never repair this machine, since then the furthest forward you could go would be to a point when the machine was next repaired.

And of coures we would have to ignore the whole issue that the parts now exist in two separate time machines.

And lets not even begin to think about the molecules making up the time travelors person... ;)

Who cares if time travel is possible? It's not right now, and that's when I live. Now. No, wait. Now. No, nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnow. Wait, wait, here it comes...... now! Now! Now! Now! Now! Now! Now! Now! Now!...

**continues saying "Now!" for a while**

Who cares if time travel is possible? It's not right now, and that's when I live. Now. No, wait. Now. No, nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnow. Wait, wait, here it comes...... now! Now! Now! Now! Now! Now! Now! Now! Now!...

**continues saying "Now!" for a while**

Well the moment time travel becomes possible in one part of time technically it becomes possible in all paerts by simply sending the time machine back with instructions on how to build one.