Physicist believes we will travel through time this century

[orbsycli]

Originally Posted by InfiniteNow

Right now????

Always,


That man knows exactly what I'm talking about.

I think.

[futuretalk]

Why haven’t we seen time travelers?

Actually some people claim they have seen them, identified as UFOs, and like many believe, these time travelers cannot cause any actions that would alter their future, or they would immediately be hurled into a parallel universe, never to return.

Today, far-out technologies like time travel are beyond accurate comprehension with our crude, pitiful meat-like brains, but never fear – future science will unravel all our mysteries. Maybe patience is our key to tomorrow.

[orbsycli]

Well maybe because If we were to time travel,
maybe there's an infinite number of universes occuring at all times
so if we time travel,
we wouldn't be resonating with the same frequencies
as the other strings?

I am almost offended that you called the human brain pitiful.

Mines better than yours :P

[futuretalk]

I believe that in 300 years, when this technology might become available, intelligence will handle even complex issues such as time travel with ease.

Philosopher Nick Bostrom dreams of a time when civilization will find the need to use time travel to revive everyone who ever lived from our grand matriarch, African Eve on down to today’s deaths.

With information doubling approximately every decade, our “magical future” will truly become amazing. We will achieve feats beyond the wildest imaginings of science fiction. Time travel, spreading our populations to the stars; even hopping into other universes will be part of everyday life in the far future.

I admit I am more positive and optimistic than most, but I believe in this future, and feel confident that I will enjoy an indefinite lifespan to personally experience these wonders.

[futuretalk]

Sorry, did not mean to offend. I think today's brains are perfect for this time in our evolution. Tomorrow, they will only get better.

[orbsycli]

Man,
And you don't even know the potential of your dreams!

I do crazier stuff than that in my sleep,
and it's just as Real because I believe it is.

[orbsycli]

Originally Posted by futuretalk

Sorry, did not mean to offend. I think today's brains are perfect for this time in our evolution. Tomorrow, they will only get better.

no offense taken, I thought it was quite funny.

[Solve]

Originally Posted by futuretalk

I firmly believe that one day, we will understand how to send informational ‘bots back in time to scan lost loved one’s minds the night before they died; bring that scanned copy into our future time and allow them to continue their lives.

That's a bit like the Arthur C Clarke & Stephen Baxter book "The Light of Other Days".

There wouldn't be overpopulation because they can continue their lives in a Virtual reality computer system.

Solve

[HydrogenBond]

Say we are able to time travel, within the next hundred years, why hasn't someone from that future time come back to our present time? As the technology improves, say a thousand years from now, I would expect the historians would be using their university time machines, to clarify history, by going back into time for eye witness accounts. Why are the historians skipping this time?

Then again, they could be among us, but realize what would happen to them, if they claimed they were from the future. Could a large proportion of the future time travelers, who say too much, have ended up in insane asylums or burnt as witches? Is the guy wearing the sign "repent" from the future, trying to change the past for the future? Could he what often becomes of time travelers, when their knowledge of the future meets the past and past can not comprehend?

What I think will happen in the future is, it will be decided, it is safer and more productive go primarily to the future, instead of the past. After losing too many timonauts to witch hunts, and insane asylum attrition, it got too expensive in terms of physical and human resources.

Time travel into the future beams you to places where time travel is normal and most people in the future are delighted to meet someone from the past. One can also bring back technology and trinkets from the future, since the futurists would be able to beam you back, with extra power and style, compared to your primitive forward trip. It is all win win and is very cost effective. Going to the past will require a lot of permits. Plus you have to sign a liability waiver stating Time-Express will not be held responsible.

[futuretalk]

The question you posed, was also asked by Stephen Hawking: “If time travel is possible, why haven’t we been overrun by tourists from the future?”

Carl Sagan probably answered this best. “We might not have seen time travel because it requires a level of technological sophistication that we may never achieve as a civilization. Effects of global warming, war or famine might just end our civilization before we ever reach the level of technological sophistication needed to create a time machine.

However, “On the other hand,” Sagan mused, if we are advanced enough to create a time machine, we should be able to have technology that would hide us from today’s world.

Forward-thinking scientists at the Cern Large Hadron Collider and in universities throughout the world believe that time travel will one day become possible. Today, it’s beyond the reach of our technological capabilities, but if and when our “magical future” arrives, and if I’m still around, I would like to be first in line to hitch a ride back to the future.