I've been thinking deeply about time travel in the last few weeks. I'm wondering if it's possible. I always have. This is the way I see it.

Time is movement. We are moving forward in time. We are moving away from the past and into/toward the future through the present.

So if time travel is possible, we must figure out a way to "travel" away from the future into the past or away from the present and into the future. So in that respect we are time "traveling" into the future at a slow pace.

So if time travel is possible we must find a way to move away from certain points. We must find a way to movement. And to do that we would have to find a road. That is, something that the tires would be able to grip to and thrust us/pull us one way or the other. So I guess we need some tires too!

Yeah, I was getting deep and then wound up in the shallow in.

So is time travel possible?

With God all things are possible.

But I don't think God would allow us to know how to do it.  Our potential for screwing things up is unfathomable.  Aside from the obvious - go back in time and make a change, suddenly so-and-so isn't born.  But think how many would want to go back to Eve and tell her NOT to take that apple..... and mess with Christ's death and resurrection..... motivations good and bad, whether traveling past or future, would have dire consequences.

God knows we can't even make the right decisions with even our own lives because of our sinful nature.  I can't see Him letting us have the ability to time travel.

Unless maybe if we could only do it as observers, without interaction....

That's true, all possible travels and changes have already been accounted for in our reality.

I know this is so, cuz I read it in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.  If you haven't read it, you need to.

God is the only One who has control over time. I would love to go back and warn myself not to do certain things and to do other things. Of course, I'd probably just screw up my life even more by interfering.

They took our jaabs!

unfortunately this question (just like the proof and disproof of god) is unanswerable at this time. However, i can give you many well thought out theories that seem very feasible to the idea of time travel.

The gravitational pull of a black hole stretches and warps space-time around it to an incredibly deep cone shaped hole. When scientists analyzed X-ray images of "super massive" black holes they discovered they were spinning at close to the speed of light. This causes the space time fabric to be dragged around, otherwise known as "frame dragging". Space-time because so distorted that it forms an almost complete circle. We have confirmed that black holes rotate.

on to cosmic strings (this all relates to time travel, please continue reading). Cosmic strings are thing threads of energy that were left over after the big bang. Despite being no wider than an Atom, Cosmic strings have colossal density. A string just one yard long would excerpt more gravity than the earth. immense gravity warps space time. Theoretically, if two Cosmic Strings were to pass eachother, you could use them as a "time machine". The fast moving strings warp space time as they pass so that they bend space time into a wed shape. Normally a space ship would have to take the longer route through space time, But the time traveler can now take a short cut.  By outrunning a light beam caused by the wed shape that the cosmic strings have formed (altering space-time), he can travel back in time. which means that if a ship were to pass by those two cosmic stings, that ship could be back before it departs.

lets take a closer look.

Cosmic strings bend space time (from their gravitational force) causing a short cut. By traveling across those cosmic stings, a ship can travel faster than light in normal space time.

You cant build a rocket that goes faster than the speed of light, but with curved space time, you can take a shortcut and beat the light beam theoretically making a time machine in principle.

The path of time is no longer linear. instead, it forms something like a circle.

However, there is a problem. The very moment you warp space time enough to form a circle, the entire region would fall inside a black hole. which would also mean that the time travel region would be inside a black hole.

take a look at this (its generally what i just said but with visuals)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOi0xA9GvX8

So, i vote yes, just because we haven't done it, doesn't mean it wont happen. Not only that, but there is so much evidence that points towards it.

Is time travel possible?  I'll think about it and tell you yesterday.

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