even if a time machine is created in the future, the gov. will be denying it and keeping it a secret from everyone else....so we shouldnt get too excited

okay

Thanks for the information....I really wasn't too excited about it......

okayyyyyy........ you could have posted that in another thread that has already started about time traveling...rather than starting a whole new topic

What a poor thread!!!

Almost every word in that sentence was based on assumption.

I heard somewhere that a scientist invented a time machine that could only travel back in time as far as the point in time it was created at.

Probably total bs though seeing as I heard it on the internet.

i was askin bout time travel and how they say it messes up things.... so i had decided to stop construction on my time capsule. which i only got as far as a drawing.

Actually, that makes sense.

"If travelling back in time is possible at all, it should in theory be only possible to travel back to the point when the first time machine was created and so this would mean that time travellers from the future would be able to visit us. As an article in this week's New Scientist suggests, this year – 2008 – could become "year zero" for time travel." (source)

Sorry I couldn't get the actual New Scientist article. The above article was dated 8 Feb 2008. Just to throw a spanner in the works: If time travel is possible, why are we still waiting to welcome our first visitors from the future?

what do normal people think about?

The article said that a pair of Russian scientists had worked out that 2008 could become the first year that we would be able to travel back to due to a mathematical quirk arsing from the first use of the CERN collider. Its all highly theoretical and probably nonsense. New Scientist have this annoying habit of latching on to hugely speculative ideas and putting them on the front cover as if it was the most normal news story in the world.

So, we have til the opening of the CERN collider until we can expect visitors from the future, but I don't think we should be holding our breath.

But if it were true, we will have vistiors from the future already.
Unless they did not make their presence known.

Re-read what I just said.

darn and i thought of a good argument against time traval

Not only do they hide it, but they send soldier looking figures back in time to make sure we aren't learning about time travel.

No thanks YOU reread what I've said. I did not say I was responding to you

uhuh... ok..

Time is a property of a particle or locally-interacting particles, not a property of the Universe itself. Read my thread about it!

Rick (points to Mikes watch): "Is that the time?"
Mike: "No, that's a watch. Time is an abstract concept"