Re:Is Time Travel Possible?
by Locke1689 on Friday April 30, 2010 @06:42PM
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While everything in this article is factually correct, it maybe gives a different impression than it should. Time dilation is of course a long held tenet of special and general relativity. Can we call that time travel into the future? I'm not really sure. In a way I guess it is (how is it practically different from placing yourself into a separate bubble of spacetime?). Of course, actually achieving this in a practical sense is pretty much impossible considering the energies involved.
As for time travel into the past... pretty much no. That would have a bunch of really disturbing consequences, including traveling faster than the speed of light and violating the second law of thermodynamics.
Of course, this just a former physics minor on stupid macro affects. When you get down to the quantum particle level the game probably changes considerably.
As for time travel into the past... pretty much no. That would have a bunch of really disturbing consequences, including traveling faster than the speed of light and violating the second law of thermodynamics.
Of course, this just a former physics minor on stupid macro affects. When you get down to the quantum particle level the game probably changes considerably.