Time-travel possible?

I'd argue it's a physical thing. Aging is proof of time having a physical effect on objects.

It might be possible, with enough understanding, to reverse, freeze (relatively speaking), or accelerate growth/development of specific things in controlled situations. Or at least in theory. That, I think, will be about as close to time travel as one will get. I don't think it would ever be possible to reverse, freeze, or accelerate the growth/development of every single thing in the universe at once. And even then, that wouldn't be time travel so much as mass-manipulation. "Time" would still be moving forward, not backwards. You'd just be manipulating the effect it had on whatever it is you're manipulating.

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Originally Posted by Alusair

I'd argue it's a physical thing. Aging is proof of time having a physical effect on objects.

It might be possible, with enough understanding, to reverse, freeze (relatively speaking), or accelerate growth/development of specific things in controlled situations. Or at least in theory. That, I think, will be about as close to time travel as one will get. I don't think it would ever be possible to reverse, freeze, or accelerate the growth/development of every single thing in the universe at once. And even then, that wouldn't be time travel so much as mass-manipulation. Time would still be moving forward, not backwards.

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But see when you are traveling in time, time is referred to as a place(the past, present, and future). But where are these things and how could we get there? What he is arguing, is that time is not a place.

But a dimension does not have to be a "place;" in fact is height a "place?"

Good book that touches on this stuff: Flatland.

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Originally Posted by Bree Fletcher

But a dimension does not have to be a "place;" in fact is height a "place?"

Good book that touches on this stuff: Flatland.

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Yes but can we travel in height? Obviously not, lol. That's absurd. The point of this thread is whether time travel is possible, yet to travel somewhere, you obviously need to be going to a place.

Yes, we can travel in height... It's called moving vertically.

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Originally Posted by Bree Fletcher

Yes, we can travel in height... It's called moving vertically.

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You misunderstood the point, lol.

And anyway, by your definition, how can you figure time not to be a place, exactly?

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Originally Posted by Bree Fletcher

And anyway, by your definition, how can you figure time not to be a place, exactly?

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Where is it? How can we get there? How do we get to the future? Or the pas?

With how we look at time, and think of it, as a notion or a concept, time travel is impossible. Our time is based on the rotations of a big piece of rock that revolves around fire. We could simply stop rotating and our time would cease to exist..or at least cease to be accurately represented. So, with this definition of time, that really has nothing to do with space, we can't time travel.

Here: I'd like to introduce you to my good friend, A. Square. He lives in Flatland, a wonderful, two-dimensional country with his two-dimensional family and friends. One day, A. Square was approached by a visitor. However, this visitor didn't come in through the front door, he appeared in Square's house, first as a point, then as an expanding circle. This would be the Sphere, a denizen of a new place called Spaceland. Square simply could not comprehend it; how could there be space "up" or "down" from his current location? However, the Sphere eventually took A. Square out of Flatland, so that he could see that Flatland was indeed just tw parts of a three-dimensional world...

Am I making sense, here?