You might think this is script from a sci fi movie from a James Cameron movie, How can this be real, Is there a machine like from Doctor Who, perhaps a magic wand, It is inconceivable!!. Well alot has been made about the idea of travelling into the future throughout the scientific community, and there is alot of credible source telling us that we have a chance to travel to the future.
Famous theoretical physicist Brain Greene has made positive claims that time travel into the future is very much a feasible possibility by stating "Time travel is possible, Albert Einstein told us how travelling to the future is possible". He has proposed two methods of travelling into the future, One methods includes building a spaceship that travels at a speed of light (which is 299,000,000 km/s) In a hypothetical scenario if you travel in a spaceship at lighting speed for 1 year dividing this into 2 journeys by travelling at 6 months and then returning back for 6 months. Now for your journey that took 1 year, when you return back to earth 100 years have already passed by. You have grown by 1 year whereas Earth time has flown past by 100 years. This phenomenon is called Time dilation, which is proposed by Albert Einstein, Time moves slowly for fast moving objects that travel at an infinite speed.
The 2nd method will include travelling with a spaceship very close towards a Black hole, as your spaceships draws nearer to the event horizion time and space completely distorts this is something where all laws of physics cease to exist, due to heavy state of matter being highly densed and strong pull of gravity towards the center of the Black hole, it makes time move very slowly as compared to the real world.
Although the proposed hypothesis suggest time travelling into the future, there has not been any breakthrough or scientific evidence in travelling back in time. which is an interesting prospect. Stephen Hawking has clearly expressed that while you will have every possibilty to travel into the future on the contrary it is physically impossible to travel back in time.
So much for going hiking and taking pictures with dinosaurs which is pretty much an extinct idea.
Stay tuned for more mind boggling and entertaining blogs and reports on scientific discoveries and mysteries.
Emran out
Black holes terrify me...but I feel like they are the definitely the answer to time travel
Hi Leah
Blackholes play a fundemental part in understanding our universe . At its very core lies the secret of the universe. stay tuned. I will post more blogs about the role of a Blackhole in our universe
Followed, I can't wait!
May I say that so little is known about the dimension of time and space that what Dr Greene said is as basic as it can get. I certainly understand his theory but I doubt that it will be done that way. Einstein believed that all time exists all the time. Thus the future already exists? What happens to non determinism then? If the E 8 lattice is the basic construct and this reality is a projection then perhaps traveling dimensionally may be the answer. I don't have the answer but neither does anyone else at the moment.
Hi Ned
You raise a valid point, Yes there are some mysteries regarding how Time actually functions, for starters we don't even know the properties or charateristics that time is made. For example water is made of molecules which is atoms bonded together. Yet nothing is known of what is time actually made of. Perhaps it is just an illusion. without us being alive to experience time. what is time actually? it is just present constant present. who knows if time is going backwards or fowards. there remains the saying "Be in the NOW"