Comments on: Why Time Travel Is Impossible

By: Hello

Hello — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 04:31:15 +0000

This cartoon doesn’t explain why time travel is impossible, it just explains why it’s impractical.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:24:45 +0000

Due to the fact that there is no such thing as aboslute space you would in fact end up quite a lot further away than this cartoon depicts!

By: Leisiz Paks

Leisiz Paks — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:26:03 +0000

Hawking has been right several times and then denying his ideas for no reason at all, also. Sometimes I don’t quite get him.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 03:29:38 +0000

Hawkins has been wrong a few times before so maybe he is wrong about time travel.

By: sierraseven

sierraseven — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 10:26:24 +0000

I can teach you to travel 60 seconds into the future. C’mon, give it a try. Only takes a minute.

By: Your innerself

Your innerself — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:39:35 +0000

Even way more complicated than that to locate the earth into space vs time! Cause the way stars moving inside the galaxy and the movement of the galaxy itself!

By: Your innerself

Your innerself — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:32:55 +0000

This is a fact, back-time travel is impossible. Compare it to a water tap, you can regulate the flow of the water and possibly even stop it (big bang) but can not be reversed. can you take the water who came out in the sink and reverse it all molecules exactly where they been!

By: Zjrules

Zjrules — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 08:38:00 +0000

False. The solar system is moving, the galaxies are moving. the earth wouldn’t be in the same spot of space every year. the rest of what you say is true. people have it in their mind that time travel will be a machine that just zaps you through time but it’d have to be a much more complicated apparatus.

By: Zachary

Zachary — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 08:30:00 +0000

Not if traveling backwards in time creates a tangent in a non-linear time stream.

By: Zachary

Zachary — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 08:28:00 +0000

Time is a matter of perception. Time is instantaneous. Just like how a tree doesn’t make a sound if nobody is around to hear it, time wouldn’t exist if there weren’t living beings to experience it. Our minds basically slow time down based on our perception of time. By changing our rate of perception, we travel through time at different what feel like different speeds. An example would be dreaming and there are drugs you can take. So that isn’t a traditional understanding of time travel, but we are traveling forward in time constantly.

As for traditional time travel, Anon basically said it. The twin paradox. Traveling backwards in time is so far not possibly, even theoretically. There are some scientist who say its possible with circulating light beams.

By: Anon

Anon — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:20:46 +0000

Time travel is possible, but only “to” the future, and you’re not going to foward in time exactly, you take a spaceship, travel very far away, and then travel back to where you started, and you’ll noticed time has progressed faster then while you were traveling, for instance, let’s say, you start at earth, and you went to IOK-10 (a place very, very far away) in 10 years time, when you get back (meaning, 20 years pass) to earth, you’ll notice that earth is waaayyy older that those 20 years, like in their time, 60 years would’ve have passed.
I can’t explain how this works, since I’m still 16 and are not THAT far into these kind of things, but for one thing I’m sure, “Time travel”, in a sense, is possible, but it isn’t really time travelling, it’s more like time progression in a part of space and another part of space, and the amount of distance and time that it takes to go to one and another.

By: Einstein

Einstein — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:09:30 +0000

This is without a doubt the most logical place to debate the plausibility of time travel. I can’t think of a better place than a cartoon page on a pop-culture referencing, porn-streaming, comedic blog. I just hope all those dumb ass scientists look up from their textbooks long enough to catch some quick girl on girl action and also take a look at all of your input. Don’t worry though, as long as we keep abstract debates like this one up, the everlasting question of time travel will soon be resolved.

By: Marco

Marco — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:51:44 +0000

Ahh yes… Time travel.

If your going “forward” in time, its relatively (hehe) easy. All you have to do is go really, really fast. People that fly a lot compound fractions of a nanosecond of traveled future time over the course of their life. Astronauts gain that in one take off. If you can travel 98% the speed of light you gain a substantial amount of traveled future time. One day traveling at this speed equals one earth year.

Backwards. I’m not sure. But it would probably take all the energy in our solar system.

By: theoneandonlyMe

theoneandonlyMe — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:29:16 +0000

Despite all the “Laws” and “Theories” that we have created, I think anything can be included in the Possible. It used to be thought of as a dreamers notion that a person could actually travel to the moon, or fly, or make light without fire. As people take greater looks into the possibility of the imposssible, the more we find is actually possible.

By: JDub

JDub — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:06:00 +0000

I time travel to the future all the time. I travel at a rate of 60 seconds per minute, 60 minutes per hour.

By: Just An Idea

Just An Idea — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:28:23 +0000

I think that we will never be able to travel in time, cause if we ever invent something that would enable us to do so, someone would’ve come to the present from the future by now.

By: random asshole

random asshole — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:44:02 +0000

what are you guys talking about, of course it’s possible, my grandma still living back in the 50’s.

By: Edu

Edu — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:36:29 +0000

There are only 2 possibilities to time travel: invent a machine to see the past (like watching a documentary) or send yourself within an energy cocoon with no possible material interaction. I think only the first one is feasible.

The popular paradox of one killing himself or his father is, of course, absurd, for the simple fact that the same molecules (those from the future and those in the past) cannot be TWICE in the universe at the same time. There would be more molecules in the past than in the future and this would be against the Law of Conservation of Matter. Thus material interaction is impossible and nobody can change the past.
That’s the reason why nobody from the future can “appear”, say ‘hello’ or leave a message.

But we can watch what happened (who killed Kennedy or Marilyn Monroe; what was first: the hen or the egg, etc) like in a 3D-movie because light is beyond space and time (at the speed of light, time = 0, right?) and interacts with our eyes and brain. A time machine would do just that: go “back” in time and enable us to monitor the past. All crimes would be solved. Deceptions and lies uncovered. And history books re-written.

Time travel itself is just that: perfect science fiction.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 10:50:12 +0000

1st of all time travel is 100% posible, if there is no law against it, its posible, and there is no law against time travel, and second of all you dont know were ud end up if u did time travel because there is no absolute point of relativity

By: Pragmatic_Procrastinator

Pragmatic_Procrastinator — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:44:19 +0000

We are all time-travelers … traveling to the future… in real-time. ^_^