You are correct @SpokeyDokey but if you can circumnavigate the technology issues you, in theory at least should be able to fold time and space. The power required is nowhere near achievable any time soon. Not publicly known anyway.
Time Travel
- Thread starter Drago
- Start date
Page may contain affiliate links. Please see terms for details.
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
All gets a bit hazy for me. I spent much of Jan & Feb this year studying elementary quantum theory (print, Google & YT) and got the gist of the basics. I just wish I had some more intellectual headroom to understand more than the basics.
It was a fascinating journey for me, as apart from a dabble with Einstein and a whizz through a couple of books by Hawking, my knowledge of the workings of the universe was locked in A Level Newtonian physics. Still relevant but the knowledge base has hugely expanded in the half century since then.
Eye-opening, puzzling but, nonetheless, uplifting in regard to what fine human brains have managed to deduce.
D
Deleted member 1258
Guest
that's travelling with it, rather than through it.
I began writing a story based on this clear fact... the first people who went through the machine just disappeared. No trace, nothing, nada, zilch. It took a while to discover that where they'd all travelled to was somewhere out in space, or inside a mountain which meant to avoid certain death, the motion of the whole universe had to be taken into account... at which point my brain began to implode and i shelved that idea
Thats why the time portal project started and the ships left the Earth seeding portals throughout the solar system giving the project accessible portals to work from, and why there are now portals seeded throughout time and space giving people the opportunity to observe periods in time and to travel throughout the universe.
Talk of A Level reminds me of when I did my A-level Physics and was present when history was made.
Our group went to Manchester uni to hear a lecture the lecturer come out and said before I start. I've an announcement to make, I've just got off the phone with our team at CERN. They've just found the up and down Quarks. For the next few hours only our group , teams at CERN and the senior members of the physics dept. Had any knowledge it had happened.
Mad Doug Biker
Just a damaged guy.
- Location
- Craggy Island
I'd love to learn more about it and the physics, I understand most things in theory, but I am rubbish at maths, so that's me bummed I guess.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
I actually wrote that in 2050, but he stole it and took it back in time.
Mad Doug Biker
Just a damaged guy.
- Location
- Craggy Island
@classic33 You said you'd go back to 1892.
I never said, but I'd go back to any time between about 1835 and 1892 just to see the GWR Broad guage, preferably in later years to see it at it's height.
I'd also go back to 1815 to meet the original members of my Curling Club, Dumbarton, now in it's 208th year and one of the world's oldest. Most people would go to see the Battle Of Waterloo, but, not I... Well, ok, maybe as well, albeit from a safe distance.
I never said, but I'd go back to any time between about 1835 and 1892 just to see the GWR Broad guage, preferably in later years to see it at it's height.
I'd also go back to 1815 to meet the original members of my Curling Club, Dumbarton, now in it's 208th year and one of the world's oldest. Most people would go to see the Battle Of Waterloo, but, not I... Well, ok, maybe as well, albeit from a safe distance.
Last edited:
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
D
Deleted member 1258
Guest
It would be interesting to find out what happened to the dead from the battle, theres been very few remains found and theres a story that said the bones were turned into fertilizer.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
that's travelling with it, rather than through it.
I began writing a story based on this clear fact... the first people who went through the machine just disappeared. No trace, nothing, nada, zilch. It took a while to discover that where they'd all travelled to was somewhere out in space, or inside a mountain which meant to avoid certain death, the motion of the whole universe had to be taken into account... at which point my brain began to implode and i shelved that idea
I'm actually currently writing a time travel novel - although that's the mechanism by which the story happens, it's not the central theme per se. I've circumvented all the techy stuff by using a semi-intelligent alien artefact.
That way I don't get hung up in all the theory and practicalities, although my main character does mention it occasionally. I have done the requisite research though, as I do still need to get the science right.
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Are you self publishing?
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Nope. Going to be braving the standard system when I've finished the manuscript.
I've never thought the 'paradox problem' with regards to time travel was ever a problem at all.
Whatever present you come from will only exist as it is because of past events.
If you to go back and change something that will merely be the past that has enabled you to actually go back and change things.
So that begs the question, is the future predetermined?
In a way it is. Certain events WILL happen tomorrow. Whatever happens today will bring them about. Just like what happened yesterday, caused today's events, and so on back forever.
If we could somehow take a snapshot of tomorrow we could say for certain that is actually what will happen. So no matter what decisions we make or paths we take it will inevitably lead to what we can see in that snapshot.
So we go back in time and what we think we are doing is changing history when all we would be doing is enabling the present.
Whatever present you come from will only exist as it is because of past events.
If you to go back and change something that will merely be the past that has enabled you to actually go back and change things.
So that begs the question, is the future predetermined?
In a way it is. Certain events WILL happen tomorrow. Whatever happens today will bring them about. Just like what happened yesterday, caused today's events, and so on back forever.
If we could somehow take a snapshot of tomorrow we could say for certain that is actually what will happen. So no matter what decisions we make or paths we take it will inevitably lead to what we can see in that snapshot.
So we go back in time and what we think we are doing is changing history when all we would be doing is enabling the present.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
June 29th, 2009 Caius College Cambridge. Just to piss off Stephen Hawking.
(He threw a party for time travellers but no one turned up - because he published the invitation after the party)
(He threw a party for time travellers but no one turned up - because he published the invitation after the party)
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Nah I was busy as the other party being thrown.
