What does time travel reveal about the nature of time?

Question

I ask this question with the assumption that understanding of time can be informed by understanding of time travel, not only understanding of time travel can be informed by understanding of time. When answering this question, keep in mind that only actual conscious time travelers are experts in time travel enough to understand the limitations of time travel, for to understand the limitations of something first you have to understand what it actually is. Thus, claims about the impossibility or near impossibility of time travel are dogmatic, assume that time is already understood enough to cancel out time travel, and assume that understanding of time travel cannot inform understanding of time, and rightfully such claims should be ignored by rational minds. If we are to be rational instead of dogmatic in our views about time travel, we should exercise our imagination to consider and investigate the various ways of traveling long distances in time.

Answer 1

That's the paradox of experience and knowledge. It is impossible until it is done. Once done, repeated explorations reconfirm nooks and crannies of the subject.



Impossible is often relative to a certain frame of reality -- ie. the level of technology and knowledge.



However, scientists could extrapolate limits of other well understood disciplines to project the combined products with varying degrees of certainty and error.



It is often necessary to look at scientific research with money in mind. This is done to eliminate area with lower chance of success and to maximize results. That's simply because we have finite resources to cover a wide range of important scientific studies.

Answer 2

Suppose that the following time travel scenarios are true. Time is shown to rest in a click. Clicking segments the present from the dysfunctional fog of the crippling system of the world.



The fragmentation of the temporal ecology must slip into a severance from the fog and settle into the crystalline diffraction of the sentience and rise into the conscious form at every click.



Travelling into time could be from the system inset merge of a riping click which segments the fog into a fragment severed from a different time diffraction from a slice of the ecology.



The ecology severed by the rip slips into a conscious form of the fragment in that present of the system of the world.



So ingrained in the system of the world is the superposition of arch time, an ornate scaffold which manifests in ecological slices of present.



In each slice is the ecology fragmented by the rip slip of the click. Each is diffracted and crystaline to the sentience in the form which succeeds the consciousness.



Very systematic ecological slices fragment time into space from where the crest of a form is ubiquitous. Space is collapsed into the present from the fog of the system of the world.



Travelling in time gives you everything manifested in the space of the slice which you slip into from the rip. Suggestions that changing the space of a slice questionably groups every event into a separate manifestation oppresses the adherence that the future is maleable.



Grouping the change in the same slice as the one which was severed in the ecology of arch time would free the time traveller from the oppression. Conflicts grip the suggested malleability, as in the grandfather conflict, where the time traveller kills his grandfather, and so was not born.



From the system of the world, the ace that would degenerate the conflict would be space fragmenting systematicly into the severance as the diffraction is risen into conscious form, collapsing enough so that the crest of the change is ubiquitious.

Answer 3

Man is limited in his physical body from before his birth through the inherited genetics of his anscestors and his parents until his own birth to live upon his earth. He is "locked" into living a special sequence of time to learn and become aware of his conscious and intelligent existence here. "I think therefore I live here in ths time".



If you believe in ancient religous records of 2,000 years you will read about a mortal who called himself a God. He lived on this earth and went into an existence where there was no time. Two beings from that existence told his followers that man would return just as he left. Unchanged and ageless in a place where no time exists.



His body was not flesh and blood any more. He had no more blood to live with. He had another type of body whose energy source came from somewhere else. Some say he had an immortal body. They expect him to return in the near future and await his coming.



Albert Einstein speculated with relativeity that if an individual traveled at the speed of light, time would slow down. But this individual shows us there must be a dimension far greater than that of light and time and space and matter.



I say all this to open your mind and think. Not just of science fiction or mathematics or even philosophically about the nature of time travel. But to show you that faith and a religion speaks of this issue as well.



If you are open minded about this then you should look at all sources of information. Some people see too much religoin in a book and not see the profound science it teaches. And that science is stated as truth from the creator who made this entire universe.



This is just my opinion. Thanks for letting me express it.



Edit. After saying all of the above I believe that time is linear. It moves in one direction into the future, by passing through the present, which quickly converts into the past.



As mortal beings we can only speculate about the future. As Jules Verne did with his novels and Leonardo da Vinci did with his diagrams and writings in the past.



To a being who lives outside the box of time; time is a measurement for work done and nothing more. I would wager that for most people we live from that reference point as well. We are not conscious of time passing. This is how our brains work. Our memories work like still photographs that run in real time. A classic example is we having a sibling that has children and another does not in a family. And they visit when the child is born and take pictures. The sibiling family with the children live in real still images. While the sibling without the childern time is frozen. They only remember the child from the last visit. And they are always surpirsed months or a year later to see how a child has grown since they last saw them.

Answer 4

Wow.... you really went into a lot of detail... I have been trying to figure out how to time travel, but it seems like there are too many chances of paradoxes for it to be any less than unbearably dangerous. But, I don't really think that humans have much of a clue on the true nature of time yet. The concept of time travel really fascinates me though... I'm sure Stephen Hawking has written some great books on it.

Answer 5

confident, and that i'm blessed that we live in a mind-blowing section, the place drivers often take their time and are affected person...i pass to a minimum of one section specially circumstances the place they honk at you to pass quicker and are very impolite, i'm questioning i'm in a Mercedes, i'm able to depart you some distance interior the dirt, yet when I hit somebody with this automobile made up of two lots of steel, they are going to honestly die..besides the incontrovertible fact that i will not be able to... and that i'm the single in the back of the wheel, so i'm not likely quicker than I come to a variety what's risk-free for me, no rely who honks. i don't choose everyone to get harm. human beings hit way too many animals rushing down area streets...and toddlers...i don't understand what their questioning and human beings consume rapid junk nutrition and throw their wrappers on the line devoid of questioning an animal will come after the nutrition and get hit...in the experience that your going to consume that junk, and you experience so awful in a while, nevertheless throw your nutrition interior the trash not interior the line!

Answer 6

Considering how long it has been since the Human race evolved the ability to even think about the future. Around 200,000 years. It might be a while till we are able to solve that question. Keep trying though, I'm countin on ya.

Answer 7

Time is elastic true. Einstein pointed that out with his theory of relativity. Objects at different speeds to one another experience a different sweep of time however time travel from a stationary point of reference realative to every other individual on earth is not possible. Time slows as an object approaches light speed relative to the traveller thus preventing their ever reaching the speed of light itself.



Conceptually if they had reached lightspeed, time for them would stop. Relative to the universe it would no longer exist as relative to earth time is accellerating.



Therefore time although elastic remains progressive in one direction. It cannot be inverted, or as time is a dimension much like the X,Y,Z axis of space the universe itself would run backwards in time. Like hitting rewind on a tape recorder, your in the tape you cannot be exempt from this effect.



This is my opinion anyway





Oh nearly forgot



The lag experienced by the brain from its organs of perception and the lag experienced by the actuators of your body from the brain is just simple physics at work...



Like it or not, you are a biological machine. So this effect is pretty much the same thing as the lag between peripheral devices on your computer. Its not true time travel.





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I dont remember drawing any similarities between brain processing or storing powers in comparison to a computers. I simply stated that the electrical impulses sent from organs of perception to the brain are much like the electrical impulses from computer peripherals to the CPU.



Our nerves are connecting cells attached via long arms known as axons. These axons are coated with a substance known as dopamine which contains conductive properties to help pass electrical impulses along the chain. as such a signal from the eye sending electrical signals down this nerve chain is not dissimilar to a copper wire travelling from a webcam to a CPU.



The both are dependent on electrical current and as such both are subjected to the physical laws applied to electricity. In otherwords they both experience lag. This is also true of the example of brain signal to leg and computer signal to monitor.



For cognative prediction this is data being generated based on previous experience.. Not unlike a weather forcasting application. This attempts to predict the weather for the week by comparing current conditions to those recorded through history.

Humans predict future events also from past experiences, which is why we get better with practice.



Both applications of this theory become more accurate with larger amounts of data. Historical weather phenominon for computers and practice for humans.



Neither machines are true time machines but marvels of logic and statistical analysis, remember time cannot run in reverse so if your mind jumps forward then its escaped you. It cannot return to its original reference point in time.



Time is linear however it can be stretched or compressed.



As for consciousness, this is a little outside the scope of the nature of time. Granted we are conscious and the computer is not this still does not effect the limitations time places on us thus this is why it is outside the scope of your question.

Answer 8

Until we understand the concept of time, all we can do is observe it, and I'm not really positive if we yet fully understand that.

Answer 9

intense question!!!! i think sometimes our human brains cannot fathom such concepts. until we meet our creator can we understand time and space, but i like your thoughts!!!!

Answer 10

Welcome "back." Who says time travel is not possible?