If you had a Time Machine, where would you go? -

MeechMunchie · #**121** 02-14-2010, 05:59 AM

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You build a device that can travel at near light speed and attach to it one one end of your wormhole.

Then you find a naturally occurring wormhole to the very distant past and send it through. It will come out light-years from Earth and billions of years in the past. It spends much of that time speeding towards Earth, then waits for the desired age to occur.

Belive it or not, I was going to say that.

shaman · #**122** 02-14-2010, 06:05 AM

I believe you.

MeechMunchie · #**123** 02-14-2010, 06:22 AM

LIES.

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Bullet Magnet · #**124** 02-14-2010, 06:34 AM

Joe will come along in a minute and think, "hang on a sec!"

Wings of Fire · #**125** 02-14-2010, 06:48 AM

hang on a sec

AlienMagi · #**126** 02-14-2010, 06:51 AM

Don't think a time machine could exist...
But if I had the chance I'd go to the prehistoric age and show off to cave people

***Nate*** · #**127** 02-14-2010, 01:24 PM

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You'd have to travel just above the speed of light to make any progress.

Don't talk about what you don't know, you Philosophy student. MA is talking about the fact that time slows down as you go faster. Thus, travelling around planets at a speed approaching the speed of light will make you age slower than your peers that stayed at home, which means you're effectively zooming in to the future.

Grieva · #**128** 02-14-2010, 01:38 PM

Your other alternative for time travel is to pilot a spacecraft through the Hasslein curve, but this seems to only have two exit points at 1972 and 3978, and one of those is ruled by apes

Wings of Fire · #**129** 02-14-2010, 01:38 PM

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Don't talk about what you don't know, you Philosophy student. MA is talking about the fact that time slows down as you go faster. Thus, travelling around planets at a speed approaching the speed of light will make you age slower than your peers that stayed at home, which means you're effectively zooming in to the future.

I thought he was talking about using time zones to travel back through time? I had similar thoughts a few weeks ago.

AlienMagi · #**130** 02-14-2010, 01:47 PM

Why do people think you could travel time with speed?
Just asking, cause I really want to get involved with this.

***Nate*** · #**131** 02-14-2010, 01:57 PM

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Why do people think you could travel time with speed?
Just asking, cause I really want to get involved with this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_relativity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation

AlienMagi · #**132** 02-14-2010, 02:05 PM

And how could you know this is true?

In my opinion time does not exist anywhere but in our heads. It's just present, the happening, just staying where it is... not going further, not going faster or slower or anything... it's just there.. and we are in it. This theory of relativity... it was said that Time goes more slowly in higher gravitational fields. I think it's just a mindfuck when you actually feel like the time goes slower but instead your brain just work slower... in a way.

This is just my quick opinion, don't get me wrong.

Bullet Magnet · #**133** 02-14-2010, 03:11 PM

How can your mind, or anything else for that matter, work faster or slower without time? There can be no speed or acceleration without time. Without time everything is still. I would say "eternally still," but it's not really eternity when it is just a single moment. Without time there will only ever be one moment.

On the time dilation page you might want to scroll down to the heading entitled "experimental confirmation". We're hardly dealing with what time "seems" like when two identical synchronised atomic clocks emerge from their respective journeys telling different times.

Long ago we came to the point in science where the world stopped making sense. Common sense is worthless on the front lines of science these days. And why should the universe make sense to us? We only ever needed to think in terms of very slow speeds and scales perfectly between the very small and very large, the middleworld where classical physics is applicable. But at the extremes the universe behaves very differently, in a way that we never had to deal with in our evolutionary history. It's made and it's insane. We can observe what happens when a particle meets itself coming the other way, because they can do that. And it doesn't matter how irritating, annoying or confusing it is, we just do the maths and they predict our experiments and observations correctly, to an obscene degree of accuracy.

RayOni · #**134** 02-14-2010, 03:47 PM

I would go in 2010 to buy Oddbox or in 2011 to look Citizen Siege!

Emesdee · #**135** 02-14-2010, 04:02 PM

Go back about two and a half decades with an HD TV and Xbox 360 and blow people's minds. I like the simple things.

MA · #**136** 02-14-2010, 04:30 PM

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And how could you know this is true?

In my opinion time does not exist anywhere but in our heads. It's just present, the happening, just staying where it is... not going further, not going faster or slower or anything... it's just there.. and we are in it. This theory of relativity... it was said that Time goes more slowly in higher gravitational fields. I think it's just a mindfuck when you actually feel like the time goes slower but instead your brain just work slower... in a way.

This is just my quick opinion, don't get me wrong.

don't even go there.

i know because i've been there, and i was wrong. i was fucking embarrassing.

Wings of Fire · #**137** 02-14-2010, 04:37 PM

TIME

IS ON MY SIDE

OH YES IT IS

Ridg3 · #**138** 02-15-2010, 01:28 AM

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Don't think a time machine could exist...
But if I had the chance I'd go to the prehistoric age and show off to cave people

They'll make fun of you for not having the same fashion sense as those hip young bastards are wont to do.

I wonder I can go back and sire my brother/son. ohhhh, that's disgusting

MeechMunchie · #**139** 02-15-2010, 02:45 AM

♪ If I could turn back time
If I could find a way
I'd take back those words that hurt you
And you'd stay ♫

***Nate*** · #**140** 02-15-2010, 03:40 AM

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I wonder I can go back and sire my brother/son. ohhhh, that's disgusting

Why do you need to go back in time to do that?

Josh · #**141** 02-15-2010, 04:43 AM

♪ LETS DO THE TIME WARP AGAAAAAAAAAAIN! ♫

Oh come on, SOMEBODY had to.

MeechMunchie · #**142** 02-15-2010, 04:54 AM

TIME WARP

Ridg3 · #**143** 02-15-2010, 12:06 PM

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Why do you need to go back in time to do that?

I'd feel less awkward if she didn't know who I was.

Wings of Fire · #**144** 02-15-2010, 12:07 PM

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Well apart from Germans :s

Something tells me that at the time the Second World War was finally over the population of Germany as a whole were at least as happy as the British, French and Americans were.

I'd go back to the eighteenth century in Germany and ask Friedrich Nietzsche what the hell he was talking about.

***Nate*** · #**145** 02-15-2010, 01:36 PM

This one is borderline Bits 'n' Pieces, but I figured it would be relevant enough here. It's a timeline of time travel plots from Hollywood. Click on it to view the creative process that led to this final version.

AlienMagi · #**146** 02-15-2010, 02:55 PM

Nate... Are you serious..?

Mac Sirloin · #**147** 02-15-2010, 06:18 PM

I think I'd just go back really far and take a great big shit in the ocean, then see what evolved in the future.

***Nate*** · #**148** 02-16-2010, 12:54 AM

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Nate... Are you serious..?

Erm... why wouldn't I be?

enchilado · #**149** 02-16-2010, 05:45 PM

If I had a Time Machine, I'd go to Europe to see the fascination cultures

Sligoth · #**150** 02-17-2010, 11:38 PM

I'd go back to 1959 and live my life through the 60's as it's where I belong. Then when 1970 arrives, I'd go back and repeat.