The Philosophy of Time Travel

 

 

Inspired from Donnie Darko, Rip Van Winkle, Back to the Future and my sick and twisted mind, this is something i ponder almost daily. Can one actually travel in time? I believe it's possible and hindsight 20/20 I would have probably  made a few changes but even though we've all heard it over and over, "everything happens for a reason."

Hopefully within my lifetime technology will be advanced enough to make some of my dreams reality.

I'd so take it back to the 60's and have some fun, man, i was born 20 years too late. That's all i got so far, but it's work/research in progress.


When and where would you travel if you could? 


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Over 1300 years ago, the first indications of time travel were discovered.

Washington Irving's famous 1819 story "Rip Van Winkle" deals with the concept of time travel, telling the tale of a man named Rip Van Winkle who takes a nap at a mountain and wakes up twenty years in the future, where he has been forgotten, his wife deceased, and his daughter grown up.

"Time travel is the concept of moving between different points in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space, either sending objects (or in some cases just information) backwards in time to some moment before the present, or sending objects forward from the present to the future without the need to experience the intervening period (at least not at the normal rate).


Although time travel has been a common plot device in fiction since the 19th century, and one-way travel into the future is arguably possible given the phenomenon of time dilation based on velocity in the theory of special relativity (exemplified by the twin paradox), as well as gravitational time dilation in the theory of general relativity, it is currently unknown whether the laws of physics would allow backwards time travel.


Any technological device, whether fictional or hypothetical, that is used to achieve time travel is commonly known as a time machine.

Some interpretations of time travel also suggest that an attempt to travel backwards in time might take one to a parallel universe whose history would begin to diverge from the traveler's original history after the moment the traveler arrived in the past"

 -Wiki