Is it normal to think that time travel is impossible?

I think that time travel is impossible because time is just a construct that we humans use to chronolog reality. There is no past, nor is there a future, The only thing that exits now, will exist tomorrow or has ever existed, is the present. THE PRESENT KEEPS HAPPENING. No one can 'go back' to their 10th birthday because you and your friends are no longer at Chuck'e Cheese's. You all have moved on with your lives and the matter that makes up your bodies is at a different location in the universe than it was on July 23rd at 2:37pm, 1996. You can not 'go back' to you wedding day because your wife is working as a walmart cashier right at this moment and you are reading this post. That is to say... if you could hypothetically 'go back' in time to your wedding day your wife would not and could not be there because she is no longer 'there' shes standing at a walmart cash register. You can not 'go to' the future where she will be standing in the unemployment line because she lost her job for stealing from the cash register at walmart because she has yet to commit the crime. However, reality will continue to happen, as it always has, and at some point her stealing from the cash register at walmart will be happening as others around the world and entire universe will be doing things other than stealing during their stay in the 4 dimensional plane called reality.

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Comments ( 11 )
  • stargate

    to make a long story short we have allready proved time travel is possible. scientist took two atomic clocks and place one on a plane and the other on the ground. The plane flew for so long in one direction and when landed compared the times and they were slightly different. Not by that much that would effect anything dramatically but enough to prove time will slow down. The other proof is how gps works. When they were first figuring out gps something wasn't working right until they figured out they needed einsteins equations for special relativity to make it work right. this website will explain everything http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Unit5/gps.html

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    • Rocket_9

      Interesting points to note. However, you speak of time 'slowing' down, not going back in time. That is probably impossible.

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  • Lovemegirl

    If the entire universe moves back with "c" then it is possible...

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    • Rocket_9

      ...what do you mean by "C"?

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  • Aurora93

    Good point.

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  • stargate

    C is the speed of light which is 299,792,458 meters per second or 186,282 miles per second

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  • chewy

    It might be possible

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  • zchristian

    If i belive Einstain it is possible still from what we have avalible today only a few secounds...

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  • DannyKanes

    You've failed to miss the next step ;)

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    • Rocket_9

      ...and that is????

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  • Kaydan

    How depressing..

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