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does anyone thinks time travel is possible?
Assuming you mean traveling backwards in time nobody knows.Dr.Calpol3 said:does anyone thinks time travel is possible?
I see no reason whatsoever why closed timelike curves are impossible. Usually those who object resort to "free will" arguments.smallphi said:Time travel in the past is thought impossible due to the causality paradoxes it can create like killing your father
smallphi said:Time travel in the past is thought impossible due to the causality paradoxes it can create like killing your father lol
MeJennifer said:Assuming you mean traveling backwards in time nobody knows. QUOTE]
i meant time travel in general.
Dr.Calpol3 said:you wouldn't want to go and kill you own father anyway, that would result in your own death instantaniously
Well, forwards travel in time is not that interesting-- we are doing it now for example! So, I presume you really do mean traveling to the past. As Jennifer said, it is unknown whether travel backwards in time is allowed. Personally, I think it's possible, but am not sure whether we will ever find out how to. Hawking famously condemns time-travel, and put forward a chronology protection conjecture, which says that the laws of physics prevent time travel. One of his arguements is that, if time travel were possible, then why have we not seen anyone come back from the future to visit?Dr.Calpol3 said:i meant time travel in general.
Dr.Calpol3 said:I didn't say you would disappear, i just meant that one wouldn't have been born at all.
Not according to the resolution suggested in Kip Thorne's book Black Holes and Time Warps which you mention above--his suggestion is just that the timeline must be entirely self-consistent (I think this is justified with QM using the path integral approach), so it would be impossible to "change" any aspect of the past, you could only fulfill things that had been part of your history all along. His analogue of the grandfather paradox is sending a billiard ball through at an angle such that when it comes out the other wormhole mouth in the path, it will be on a trajectory that will knock its younger self out of the way so it never goes back in time--his resolution in this scenario is that the billiard ball from the future will come out on a slightly different trajectory which will deliver only a glancing blow to its younger self, a glancing blow which will slightly alter the angle it goes into the wormhole in just the right way that it will come out in the past with the new trajectory needed to deliver that glancing blow.cristo said:Ok, well then the person's wordline would disappear.
JesseM said:Not according to the resolution suggested in Kip Thorne's book Black Holes and Time Warps which you mention above--his suggestion is just that the timeline must be entirely self-consistent (I think this is justified with QM using the path integral approach), so it would be impossible to "change" any aspect of the past, you could only fulfill things that had been part of your history all along. His analogue of the grandfather paradox is sending a billiard ball through at an angle such that when it comes out the other wormhole mouth in the path, it will be on a trajectory that will knock its younger self out of the way so it never goes back in time--his resolution in this scenario is that the billiard ball from the future will come out on a slightly different trajectory which will deliver only a glancing blow to its younger self, a glancing blow which will slightly alter the angle it goes into the wormhole in just the right way that it will come out in the past with the new trajectory needed to deliver that glancing blow.
Yes, but the full implication of his method of resolving such paradoxes is that one cannot go back and "change" anything whatsoever, the timeline is entirely fixed. (The notion of 'changing' the past is pretty incoherent unless you invoke parallel universes, anyway...usually 'change' means comparing one thing to another and noting a difference, but how can you note a difference between the 'original' version of history and the 'changed' one if the original version not only doesn't exist, but it never did?)cristo said:Indeed, however this shows that one cannot go back in time and kill one's own grandfather.
MeJennifer said:I see no reason whatsoever why closed timelike curves are impossible. Usually those who object resort to "free will" arguments.
There are such metrics, but they all involve either unrealistic cosmologies or else violations of the weak energy condition, and I think all the known ones violate the null energy condition too (although in http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v46/i2/p603_1 Hawking provided a general proof that all time machines in finite regions must violate the weak energy condition, I don't know if there's a similar proof for the null energy condition, I've just seen arguments about it being violated for specific types of solutions like wormholes and the Albucierre drive in papers like this), so whether they are "physically meaningful" is uncertain. I believe it's thought that it is possible to consistently violate the weak energy condition in quantum theory by using the Casimir effect, but based on papers like this I get the impression that it's currently thought that the null energy condition isn't violated by any known effects except in a transient way...someone please correct me if I'm wrong!smallphi said:Is there actually a physically meaningfull metric (solution of Einstein) with closed timelike curves?
Time travel is the concept of moving backward or forward in time to a different point in history or to the future. It is a popular subject in science fiction, but it is still a topic of ongoing scientific research and debate.
At this point in time, time travel is purely hypothetical and has not been proven to be possible. However, many physicists and scientists believe that it may be theoretically possible, given our current understanding of the laws of physics.
There are several theories on how time travel could potentially work. One theory involves the concept of bending or warping space-time, allowing for travel through a wormhole. Another theory involves the manipulation of gravity and the use of black holes. However, these are all hypothetical and have not been tested or proven.
The consequences of time travel are largely unknown and can vary depending on the method of time travel and the specific circumstances. Some theories suggest that changing the past could create alternate timelines or paradoxes, while others argue that the past cannot be changed. There is also the possibility of altering the future and creating unforeseen consequences.
No, time travel has not been proven to exist. While there have been some experiments and theories that suggest it may be possible, there is currently no concrete evidence or scientific consensus on the existence of time travel.