The paradoxical issues with causality can be disregarded, multiple timeliness are not only probable but almost certain to exist.
The issues with translocation could be solved by mapping out ones change in position over the course of multiple smaller jumps forwards in time, then reversing the patterns to determine the approximate location one needs to be in at a point in the past.
The various issues presented with regards to energy and safety are already being considered.
Energy costs are already being cut down as equations and known physics are being reexamined, we've already cut down the cost of a hypothetical warp drive by half, and new subatomic particles are being discovered right now.
Safety is another issue, that we have to work out a bit, but there should be various methods of shielding the passengers from the dangerous nature of their journey, such that we aren't sending back wreckage and corpses or traces of them, or a crew of terminal cancer patients.
I'm looking for some STEM minded sorts to apply themselves to the possibility of sending humans back in time, especially to a time before the one they had set out from.
I've got a passion for discovering the truth about the past and for preventing this disastrous future we live o with some small changes.
I have a book and very short textbook that deals with the concept of time - both are free to download at rphalliway.com
Time is a construct based on observed change, and I theorize on several reasons why time travel is most likely impossible/improbable.
Some of the major questions for time travel deal: is it a wormhole type activator? how much energy does that require (1.21 gigawatts)?
Is the time travel a physical phenomenon? If it is on the subatomic level, what is consciousness? Will a "reassembled" version of a person still contain all of the memories, thoughts, personality, knowledge, etc?
What is a soul? Can a consciousness/soul exist in two places at once? (this is much like the clone question)
Is time travel more mental? That is the route I am going with my theory - and I tie into the multiple parallel universe idea as well. But mental time travel does not allow for interaction unless there is the ability to "take over" a physical form at some point - think ghosts, etc, that do not have the ability to communicate with people.
Very good questions that form the foundation of how to examine the existence of time travel.
Also, since Stephen Hawkins didn't get any visitors (neither did Sheldon on Big Bang Theory) at his party, it seems improbable that the current generation or two has created the ability to physically time travel.
rph999 0 points 1.9 years ago
I have a book and very short textbook that deals with the concept of time - both are free to download at rphalliway.com
Time is a construct based on observed change, and I theorize on several reasons why time travel is most likely impossible/improbable.
Some of the major questions for time travel deal: is it a wormhole type activator? how much energy does that require (1.21 gigawatts)?
Is the time travel a physical phenomenon? If it is on the subatomic level, what is consciousness? Will a "reassembled" version of a person still contain all of the memories, thoughts, personality, knowledge, etc?
What is a soul? Can a consciousness/soul exist in two places at once? (this is much like the clone question)
Is time travel more mental? That is the route I am going with my theory - and I tie into the multiple parallel universe idea as well.
But mental time travel does not allow for interaction unless there is the ability to "take over" a physical form at some point - think ghosts, etc, that do not have the ability to communicate with people.
Very good questions that form the foundation of how to examine the existence of time travel.
Also, since Stephen Hawkins didn't get any visitors (neither did Sheldon on Big Bang Theory) at his party, it seems improbable that the current generation or two has created the ability to physically time travel.
Cheers.