NAME: Arbus
E-MAIL ADDRESS: sevy47@yahoo.fr
LOCATION: agen
Date: September 14, 2002

je pense que le voyage de temps materriel est impossible. Pour qu'il soit realisable,ilfaut resoudre les paradoxes. mon avis. le sujet qui entre dans un referentiel temporel autreque le sien ne peut interagir avec le monde qui l'entoure. Notre masse correspont a une quantite d'energie transphasique qui est la meme dans chaque referentiel temporel.Pour pouvoir y penetrer,il faut eliminer l'energie correspondante a la masse en mouvement qu'y si trouve. je te laisse si tu veux me contacter,envoies moi un email tchao.

Bonjour Argus.
D'abord, pardonnez mon réponse en retard. J'ai commencé des affaires nouvelles en deux derniers mois qui ont pris la majeure partie de mon temps.
En second lieu, BIENVENUE DEDANS!
À quelques premières pages de réponse j'avais adressé le déplacement d'air, si est ce de ce que vous parlez. Le même est vrai avec la masse et la matière. Je ne suis pas sûr où (quelles pages) elles ont été discutées dessus.
Je ne sais pas si vous pouvez lire l'anglais. Si vous pouvez, vous devriez certainement avoir plaisir à lire après des entrées. Nous avons eu beaucoup d'idées et discussions merveilleuses ici.
Rappelez-vous, la connaissance que nous avons de la physique actuellement n'éliminons pas la possibilité de voyage de temps.
Chuck

NAME: BRICE
E-MAIL ADDRESS: nwave @ eircom.net
LOCATION: OUTSIDE YOU RELATIVISTITIC TIME EVENTS,,,,FROM THE SPACE EVENT....THINK ABOUT TUNNELING
DATE: September 21, 2002

I would like to hear what you think a qunantum-Relativitic event would be to the human pysche...I have heard all of your classical logic,,,,but to cut to the chase do you know how the proved quantum tunneling through time wil effect the pyschology of mind.....do you even have a degree in physics.... Ill tel you what start wilth trying to tring the HYPERBOLAS of general relativity ,,,,and get back to me why the shortest ditance is not a straight line. You know alot of real physicist spend their life in very minimal financial circimstances, while you guys who dont even know the invariant interval fool the uninformed public.;
TIME travel is a treality.....and I dont think you even know the recent experiment in germany . They have sent signals back through time.
Ill tell you what you tell me something new....

Hi Brice, Hmmm. I'm not a physicist. I mention that frequently in here. Obviously you aren't either. Of course I know about the recent experiments in Germany. I also know that it has been done several times over since then and with much greater speed results. I still don't know what any of this means except that it may someday possible to send information back in time. But, HOW WOULD YOU GET THE RECEIVING END TO LOOK FOR IT OR EVEN KNOW OF THE EXISTENCE OF THE MESSAGE? If it hasn't happened yet in this reality-this particular moment in time, then it (the message) will never be sent back this far.
Anyway, thanks for taking a look & thanks for commenting.
Chuck

NAME: GuNdj
E-MAIL ADDRESS: gundj_@hotmail.com
LOCATION: Melbourne, Australia
DATE: September 26, 2002

First off, i would like to say your time travel essay is brilliant. Secondly, i have been a fan of time travel ideas ever since i first saw Back to the Future for the first time when i was very young (coincidently born in 1985).
I also have a theory that i have come up with :D Assuming that there is only ever one point in time classified as "now" and you cannot travel beyond that point (no going to the future). If we were to travel back in time by some means, maybe we step outside the normal flow of time and then the position of "now" would change and you re-emerge into the space-time continum.
When the position of "now" changes, the time you came from does not exist, it hasn't happened yet, and maybe it won't happen. All this we know already but what i propose is that once you are in the past, you wouldn't be able to return to the future, because the position of the now has backtracked. You will remember the future and you still exist... even if you change something drastic such as killing your great grandmother. You have stepped outside the space time continum and were disconnected from it. So once you are back within it, you are immune to effects such as the grandfather paradox as i like to call it. Its hard to explain what my understanding of it is, even reading over what i have typed, it doesn't seem to make sense. But i'll use one of your examples to try and clarify:
Say you go back in time however many days to give yourself the winning lotto numbers. Once your there and give yourself the numbers you find that you cannot return to your own time... So u think to yourself 'thats all right, i will just wait for the other me to go back in time and then i can live my life normally again and be rich'. So you leave your house and go hide out in the woods for a few days, but when you come back you find that the other you is still around, even though he/she should have gone back in time already. Because you've stepped outside the space-time continum you won't encounter a Paradox when the other you fails to time travel. And its not because your in an Alternate Universe to your own, but more that your timeline no longer exists in any form, it once did, maybe within another deapth of time... perhaps a 5th dimension, time being the 4th. So if you analyse this final time line that we end up with you see this: day 1: your at home like usual and suddenly a duplicate of yourself that is 4 days older appears and tells you the lotto numbers, so you enter and win. day 2: you collect the money, the duplicate of you has run off to the woods by now day 3: you spend up big :) day 4: you come across the time machine, but you decide now that your rich you don't need to use it day 5: the duplicate of you emerges from the woods again and is confused as to why your still here day 5+: there are now two of the same person existing, one of which literally appeared from no-where, they have memory of a future that never happened but they continue to exist. I hope i have expressed my theory well enough for it to be understood. This theory would abolish all Paradox's and yet it doesn't incorporate Alternate Universes. It also may explain the existance of travelers from the future in our time. This is what i mean: Say in the year 2056 (random number) some scientist dude develops a time machine, so he tests it by going back in time a few hours to see what happens, the result is two copies of himself and no paradox's occur. So this scientist then reveals to the world about time travel and there is a worldwide effort to ban its use and maybe some device is invented to disable any time machines made from working, because of the fact that as soon as someone uses it the whole timeline at that point is deleted from existance and the position of "now" is changed.

Very good, VERY GOOD! I really enjoyed your examples and I DO understand what you're saying. You are, however, still using alternate universes- you just seem to have come up with a scenario where duplicates are somehow ending up in the same timeline- if I understand that part of what you're getting at. The only thing is; each version seems to be playing off another version's actions and basically creating one another. I don't see how they could end up returning to the exact same timeline.
You are A VERY INTELLIGENT YOUNG PERSON- I'll give you that! Please keep pondering. Our future needs people like you!!!
I have four sons around your age and I do appreciate your generation & hope for it all the time!
THANKS A MILLION FOR YOUR POST!
Chuck

NAME: Bill Dean
E-MAIL: nucleareel@coastnet.com
LOCATION: Victoria, British Columbia - CANADA
DATE: SEPTEMBER 28, 2002
Very quick and notes....

Loved your webpage and the discussion/responses pages. I am researching a novel with time travel or schizophrenia as the theme... it will be hard to tell which, if I do the job right. Anyway I have little to add except a couple of tidbits from other sources.

1) Bucket Theory: That the universe has a limit to how much matter it can contain, like a bucket. If atoms are introduced from an outside source, the universe explodes (or something.) If you buy this, then introducing future atoms via timetravel could be a source of worry.

2) String Theory: What we see of a quark, for instance, might simply be akin to what a 2-D being sees of a pencil passing through his world (I believe you used this analogy previously.) If you buy this theory, then it can follow that we are simply ill-equipped to fully percieve time as we seem to be ill-equipped to properly percieve some quantum particles (which some times act as particles, at other times as waves depending upon how we measure them).

3) I vaguely recall from a physics lecture about 20 years ago, that scientists had quantified what they consider the smallest possible unit of time (a chrono, I think they called it) The unit was determined by calculating the tiniest amount of energy necessary to sustain existence in this universe. I'm sorry now that I can't recall the exact details, but it was an interesting concept... that time units could be derived in that way.

4) Random resequencing: Consider the universe is made of atoms and atomic connections and that time will go on indefinitely, then there is an infinitesimally small (but real) chance that it might randomly reform into this exact configuration long after the earth has eroded to dust. In fact, it might be happening right now. By extention, all time, all instances, all moments might exist in a random sequence spread throughout eternity.

'K. Thanks again for the insights.

My site (not much to do with time travel):
BILL DEAN'S SITE

Hi Bill. Thanks for stopping over. I have heard of the theories you speak of. The "bucket theory", you may have seen, has been discussed here on a couple of pages as I recall. I've read a couple of Michio Kaku's book and was delighted by his flatlander examples explaining string theory (dimensionally) for us laymen.
And yes, even the "smallest unit of time"- I also don't recall where I read it. If there is infinity; and I'm not sure that there is; We might consider it random- but it's PROBABLY NOT. I doubt anything is.
Thanks for your input, Bill. Your site is linked.
Chuck

NAME: syed nisar hussain
E-MAIL ADDRESS: snh512@yahoo.co.uk
LOCATION: pakistan
DATE: October 7, 2002
cant deny it as a muslim our holy prophet was so honoured by Allah more later regards
snh

Gee whiz! How does religion keep getting in here? Oh, that's right! I post up everyone's "responses".
J/K, syed. We're all entitled to our opinions. Hope you enjoyed my essay.
Chuck

NAME: brendan nolan
E-MAIL ADDRESS: unsw@.com
LOCATION: australia
DATE: October 8, 2002
i love it because it would give the means to change things
Hi Brendan. Wouldn't that be fun? You may only be able to change things for yourself, but that's all that matters anyway!
Thanks for posting!
Chuck

NAME: Jim Wilson
E-MAIL ADDRESS: untamedthing666@aol.com LOCATION: West Sussex England
DATE: October 11, 2002
I have just read your theories Chuck and found them to be really interesting.I have been an avid Sci Fi fan since i was old enough to read books and watch the telly.What interests me though is the cue ball effect when travelling through time.How can anyone be 100% sure that when they are about to make there return journey they will land (so to speak) in exactly the same place they left from. For instance the cue ball on a pool table for example,when you strike it with the cue and the ball travels along the table and strikes the target ball,can you be sure that you can play exactly the same shot at exactly the same speed and exactly the same distance plus hitting the target ball in exactly the same place,and making sure that the cue ball and target ball stop in exactly the same place twice or more.The point i'm trying to make (probably not too well)is,Travelling back in time or forward as the case maybe would not be too much of an issue (YEAH as though i've tried it)it would be the journey back you would have to consider because if you were only a fraction of a second out on the journey back you may start to experience an echo of yourself leaving.
I'm going to leave it there for now Chuck because i'm starting to confuse the hell out of myself and i certainly am not a quantum physcisist. Please have a ponder on my theory and if you find the TIME maybe give me your reply,thanks buddy
Hi Jim, Thanks for stopping by and posting. The only thing I can think of is if one were able to travel through time by intention, there would have to be some kind of controls as to where, or rather when, you were going, which would also argue for the rationalization that one would be able to control a "return". If you've read much of the discussion here you'll know that I don't believe that a timetraveler would ever be able to return to the timeline that they left.
You certainly have a unique way of thinking about it. And remember, none of us are wrong. Everything here is pure speculation; same with the educated scientists.
Anyway, a haphazard "bouncing" around in time doesn't sound like much fun to me :)!
Your input appreciated!
Chuck

NAME: Freddie West
E-MAIL ADDRESS: junnknight@aol.com
LOCATION: Roanoke Va
DATE: October 15, 2002
I believe that it is possilbe to time travel and I think that there has been time travel backwards in time it just has not been noticed by us and if it has been noticed by us we've dismissed it as a hoax or ufo's think about it a ufo hovering in the sky over a city it would be the safest place to observe from a view without engaging with the populus and chnging events. This is just my theory though.
p.s. great page by the way.
Hi Freddie,
Thanks for sharing with us. That's possible. It would explain a lot of things that are currently unexplainable and downright baffling. There's all kinds of weird and unusual things that happen on this planet daily. It's actually a longer 'stretch" to think that UFO's/flying saucers are extraterrestrial in origin than what you suggest.
Glad you stopped by & posted!
Chuck

NAME: alaba onajin
E-MAIL ADDRESS: thinkreogre@hotmail.com
LOCATION: nigeria
DATE: October 15, 2002

i believe the idea of time travel is only a fabrication of the mind. you see, i believe our minds like to view to us occurences that would cause us to wonder in awe. in my view, to explain time travel would mean to hold on to something physical, as in the process of the continous flow of time is like a tape which can be forwarded or played back but we are made to know that time exists in the fourth dimension, which implies that time cannot be controlled. if time travel does occur, are we to explain the phenomenon as playing a tape back or foward? and lastly, i also believe that since we are three dimensional and we exist in space time, which is in the fourth dimension, then we also exist in the fourth dimension. i strongly believe that there is no physical world. what we see is only a generated image of our mind. we look at a book in physical terms and say it's there but in actual fact, its only an image played by the infinite mind. if this is the case, time travel MA! Y only occur in the mind and this is simply done when we use our imagination. only our minds travel in time and not the physical, if there is anything as such, and so will it remain as we delve more ignorantly into the illusion of three dimensional time travel.
anyway,i love time travel stories and movies. back to the future is great. and i think your site is fantastic.
Hi Alaba,
Thanks for the comments. And I'm so glad that you like the site.
Actually, I agree with you, mostly. When you're sitting in a field looking at the trees, flowers, sky and whatever else, I think you are looking at nothing more than a jumble of wave patterns of the light spectrum that your eyes reconstruct and try to make sense of in a way that is familiar to you and that you understand. Equally, to touch an object such as the bark on one of those trees or to hold a flower in your hands becomes a manifestation of touch & feel and recognization of familiarity.
This is really a very light consideration of something much deeper and almost absurd by our reasoning processes. Something I discussed with an earlier respondent starting HERE, I believe. This was way back when I had a lot more time to "get into it". Life got busy again and I have to be brief, but I understand what you're saying.
I think you would enjoy a book called "THE HOLOGRAPHIC UNIVERSE" written by Michael Talbott. He would severly alter the views of reality of anyone who reads it.
THANKS for stopping by, Alaba. Please come back in any time!
Chuck

NAME: Michael Callagher
E-MAIL ADDRESS: as_the_light_fades@hotmail.com
LOCATION: northern ireland, uk
DATE: October 15, 2002
i dont mean to sound stupid here but this is what i think about time travel. i read somewhere or heard on tv that they did an experiment. they used an atomic clock that doesnt loose any time and used it as the control of the experiment. two people were in london. one person stayed there, while the other got on a commerical jet bound for new york. number 2 travelled to new york and then taking time zones into account they compared the atomic clock. (maybe it wasnt called atomic, but basically it measures time as we know it) the clock was a millisecond different than the one in london. i cant remember whether it was faster or slower but basically the guy who went to new york has technically travelled through time, he was in a different time line to the guy in london, there was now a difference in the two universes of these people, despite how miniscule. Ok i know this is a small example but it proves something. We are actually all travelling in different time lines. The guy on the plane travelled at 500 mph, fast speed compared to 1-2mph when walking or 0.00001mph when sitting. HOWEVER, divide it up and if there was a 0.00000001 difference in time between the guy who travelled at 500 mph to new york and the guy who stayed in london, there must then be a 0.0000000000000000000001 mph difference between someone walking at 3mph and someone sitting down. It also means that speed and time are linked. This would suggest that everyone and everything in this universe is in a differnet time frame, yet we interact. It would also back up the theory that if we travel at a high enough speed we can time travel. This is not taking into account the paradox.
Another example. Say we talk about the theory put forward by scientists that even if we managed to reach the speed of light, we could be gone 20 minutes and the world will have aged 4 years, this in effect is time travel, in this case there is no paradox as there will be no double of yourself back on earth, you will be only you. If there is a way to accelarate time, there must also be a way to decelarate or even reverse it. Of course if we did then we would encounter the paradox, but if you were prepared to not return to your present, and live in the "past", it would not effect you, it would only effect your former present. However, all events on earth are connected. Even a small detail like me walking down the street can eventually effect everything. Say i talk to someone i know, origionally they would have walked on which would have developed into my former present but this time they stop and talk to me. I hold them up by 15 minutes and the chain of events are different. Ok so say i want to go back and view from a distance the best day of my life, by the end of the day, events would start changing, as i would have effected that universe.
Another thought. say we could reach the speed of light and therefore accelarate time for ourselves, and then find a way to do the opposite. You have left behind your universe, it is now totally separate and is moving on without you, this would lead on to the theory that every millisecond in time is separate and each is part of a totally different universe, almost like saying we pass from one universe into another each millisecond. Imagine it as a train. You somehow jump to another train (time travel) which is following ever so slightly behind, the train you were on is still continuing and changing according to the route it is going.
Just my thoughts, wonder what you think.
P>S> im an 18 yr old student from n.ireland, uk
Hi Michael. I'll tell you what I think, actually what I know. There are a lot of BRILLIANT young minds out there and yours is one of them. I read over your thoughts a couple of times and I see nothing wrong with your reasoning. In fact you seem to extrapolate on some proven things and some theories and expand on them with a different view. Almost as if you've reached some conclusions that match others' thoughts, unaware of their ponderings. You're right that we are all creating our own universe/reality as we go (whether by a conscious decision/action or not). It just doesn't matter if someone 3000 miles from you spills their drink at 7PM tonight or not. If necessary, the ripple will catch up with you and your reality will absorb it and make the necessary accomodations to continue on with the creation of your timeline.
If you like STAR TREK, maybe you have seen the TNG episode, "Parallels". It addresses much of what you discuss here when you get past the "technobabble".
As far as your math, I'm too lazy to be efficient with it. I take your word on the outcomes. I do know that there have been atomic clock/relative positioning experiments. I also read somewhere that if you left on a plane traveling at 600 something MPH at noon, you could stay with the sun as long as there was fuel and it would always be true noon. Of course you would age normally in the plane- simple relativity!
Thank you for your thoughts, Michael. And please keep thinking!
Chuck

NAME: gustav grobler
E-MAIL ADDRESS: 12124567@puknet.puk.co.za
LOCATION: Potchefstroom
DATE: October 25, 2002

I certaintly believe in time travel, although my lectures think that its bull shit. I submitted a project about time travel for Physics, and my lecturer did not appreciate it as I thought he would. I think that the human brain just dont have enough thoughts about subjects like these. I mean, if you dont believe that at least there is a possibility of time travel, then neither you believe in your own existence. Everything is possible, because everything we know of has statistical fluctuations, there must be something to work for.
Well, I am glad that there are people out there at least thinking about the possibilities of time travel. I personily dont like science fiction movies, but a few year's back science fiction became a reality.
Thanks
gustav
Hi Gustav!
Oh well, the Lecturers are just taught people anyway, you know. They would do well to remember that an educated guess is still nothing more than a guess. It's the same thing for theories, speculation and anything else unknown. You are absolutely right. Science fiction of today usually does become Science fact of tomorrow. Read what a lecturers Stephen Hawking, Lawrence Krauss and many others had to say about that.
Thanks for stopping by and taking your time to share with everyone, Gustav!
Chuck

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