Questions About Time Traveling.

[Rubrick]

If someone would go back in the time and make sure ketchup didn't exist, we wouldn't notice cos it never existed.

exept that someone

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[yuki]

He probably didn't make it.

I made it. I oversimplified it to illustrate the basic idea without factoring in other theories.

Oh holy stuff epic.

[Shadow86]

Plus there are so many paradox events that you could trigger which would destroy the fabric of time.

I think the loop hole in what Einstein didn't state, was that you could distort time. Throw in worm-holes and other theoretical physics oddities and you got yourself an interesting possibility. Of course you would need to be going faster than the speed of light to distort space-time, which isn't possible.

Yes.
If you undo time, you don't remember anything that happened BTW. But that would also cause you to forget what happened.
You just MIGHT remember through deja vu, when the event happens, but it can also cause a time paradox, of which when it happens, in before the undo, that might happen again, causing the fabric of space/time to be ruined.
You can also create a time paradox if you kill someone, but you still like them for who they are.
Your life could be miserable because of someone you REALLY don't like. But if you kill them, going back in time, you might feel that you WANT that exact same person back. Go back to where you were thinking of killing him, then convince yourself to NOT kill him. But of course, there is a part of time/space that tells yourself to NOT kill him, convincing yourself TO kill him.
Time paradox ensures? Actually, I don't know, time is too confusing with the human race. It's like it's God's assistant to keep EVERYTHING going. If something goes wrong, god fires it, removing it from existance. Then no events will pass.
Then wouldn't God have a time paradox himself? As I said, too confusing.
BTW, the theory black holes, when things go into them, events won't pass. NOTHING time related will pass (gas XD).
Basically a gravitational pull of nothing? Who knows. Well I don't for sure.

EDIT: I just noticed I was just saying stuff as I went along, as far as I knew about time.

[General Omega]

At most you have two things that would happen after a paradox.

A.) nullification of existence

B.)self repair.A Explained: The universe so wound up in all that mess would end up contridicting it's self and end up in the creation of non-existence. Upon such thing the universe would cease to exist. Non-existence being a thing it's self would be destroyed and the universe set up to a total restart from the vary beginning. Non-existence is a paradox it's self for being contradictory to it's self.

B Explained: This will be the most common and can be put into a sort of example. Say Jack built a time machine and wished to save the titanic. He succeeds in this and ends up transporting himself from the point of time travel to universe b where the titanic never sunk. Now in this universe he would go up to the point where he would make the trip to save the ship but Jack has no point in doing so because there is no ship that needs saving thus he does not save the ship and time reverts to it's normal flow. We being the occupants of universe A.

[MackTheHunter]

Very confusing, but I get what everyone means.

If their was any way to pause time, I'd be paused every day at 6:30 AM for more sleep. :D

[General Omega]

No but you can slow it down to the point that 1 second their time is 1 year your time.

[NickTheSushi]

Vert needs to make an EFG comic about timetravel. That was uber.

[General Omega]

It is kinda a disrespect to the topic. The guy was being serious about it yet we go and spam it up with half baked pictures that have stuff meaning compared to the actual facts.

[Regulith]

Think though, if we ever figured out time travel, nothing would ever go wrong, because we would have gone back in time and fixed it. Or at least we will never invent it within our lifetimes.

[Ronin]

Yes.
If you undo time, you don't remember anything that happened BTW. But that would also cause you to forget what happened.
You just MIGHT remember through deja vu, when the event happens, but it can also cause a time paradox, of which when it happens, in before the undo, that might happen again, causing the fabric of space/time to be ruined.
You can also create a time paradox if you kill someone, but you still like them for who they are.
Your life could be miserable because of someone you REALLY don't like. But if you kill them, going back in time, you might feel that you WANT that exact same person back. Go back to where you were thinking of killing him, then convince yourself to NOT kill him. But of course, there is a part of time/space that tells yourself to NOT kill him, convincing yourself TO kill him.
Time paradox ensures? Actually, I don't know, time is too confusing with the human race. It's like it's God's assistant to keep EVERYTHING going. If something goes wrong, god fires it, removing it from existance. Then no events will pass.
Then wouldn't God have a time paradox himself? As I said, too confusing.
BTW, the theory black holes, when things go into them, events won't pass. NOTHING time related will pass (gas XD).
Basically a gravitational pull of nothing? Who knows. Well I don't for sure.

EDIT: I just noticed I was just saying stuff as I went along, as far as I knew about time.

Space time is relative to where you are in the universe. Gravity can create the illusion that you are moving slowly, like if you were to say dive into a super massive black hole (in theory). Things that go through a blackhole end up at the bottom of something like a big gravitational well, an infinitely dense singularity. It has been suggested that this matter may be sent back out through whiteholes and thus the matter is not lost.

As far as paradoxes are concerned, you can't warn yourself of something like impending doom, because you entering that time in space already alters the course of history. Also you have no clue.

What's this about God? I don't see anything in my post about omnipotent invisible entities.

[DrMobius]

Hay guise, I'm dividing by zero see?

[Irishbandit]

Traveling back in time is impossible, since it would already have happened and no effects would occur. Traveling Forward in time though, is a different situation.

[General Omega]

That is more impossible since it did not even happen yet.

[Ronin]

Traveling back in time is impossible, since it would already have happened and no effects would occur. Traveling Forward in time though, is a different situation.

NO.

The point is going back in time because it has already happened for the sole purpose of observing history in progess.

The future is undefined and is ever changing, you can't go into the future.

[Feep]

I can walk at the speed of light, lightbulbs are slow.....