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Jan 24 2011 08:45pm

I love time traveling movies, books, documentaries, etc. lol. It makes me wonder is it really possible to build a time machine?

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Jan 24 2011 08:45pm

I think it's possible, though no one really knows

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Jan 24 2011 08:46pm

This guy created one, but it only works from as far back as it was made, and you can only send information back in time.

Basically twists time.

Although it might be possible for someone to send something from the future that has access to it in its future existence.

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Jan 24 2011 08:50pm

Quote (Torm1 @ Jan 25 2011 02:46am)

This guy created one, but it only works from as far back as it was made, and you can only send information back in time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRWwI61so5Q

Although it might be possible for someone to send something from the future that has access to it in its future existence.

Awesome.

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Jan 24 2011 08:54pm

It seems pretty doubtful. It's possible to travel forward in time by traveling near the speed of light though. However traveling backwards in time seems pretty much impossible from our current understanding of the laws of physics.

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Jan 24 2011 09:07pm

And thats only the beginning.

However, what thenoose said is fairly accurate, which means that there must be many trillions of parallel existences depending on every single choice or possiblity that could take place.

Here is something that you will really like... Down the rabbit hole you go:

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Jan 24 2011 09:20pm

Quote (thenoose @ Jan 24 2011 09:54pm)

You're right. Even with wormholes etc, it's impossible to travel back in time.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20003949-71.html
Don't care to find a better source, but this does reference the fact that Hawking stressed that time travel will only work in the Forward direction due to the nature of time dilation at relativistic speeds.

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Jan 24 2011 09:43pm

Quote (thenoose @ Jan 25 2011 02:54am)

I personally think it's possible to travel back in time. The laws of physics are endless, and who knows, maybe there'll be a law of physic making it possible to travel through back in time

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Jan 24 2011 09:44pm

i think probably not

but viewing past/future perhaps^

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Jan 24 2011 09:50pm

Quote (Torm1 @ Jan 24 2011 06:46pm)

This guy created one, but it only works from as far back as it was made, and you can only send information back in time.

Basically twists time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRWwI61so5Q

Although it might be possible for someone to send something from the future that has access to it in its future existence.

wow their experimental rooms are very dusty. They need to clean it out xD

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