While I was at a friends this weekend, we rented "A Sound of THunder", which made some real productive points as to how a time machine might work. Also with the theories that if you went back in time, if you made ANY change to ANYTHING, that it would cause a time wave, turning everything into a different evolution.
A Sound of Thunder, about what could happen to the future of humanity if even the most subtle changes are made to its history, even the smallest change.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sound_of_Thunder


IT basically tells of a time paradox, where everything happened in the past for a reason, if you change ANY thing, stepping on a plant, stepping on a bug, or killing a human, you would set off a chain reaction through time that would rearrange the Earth. Depending on how far back something happened, would be the amount of change. Whether the change was plant, animal, human, weather, or technological evolution. The change would occur in time waves, happening in a sequence based one what was changed, i.e., a butterfly is stepped on, can't pollenate a plant, plants pop up in office buildings through floors in our time, then animals that eat the flowers evolve, then humans, and so forth.

My thought is that time travel would be HIGHLY dangerous, and could become catastrophic to our evolutionary path. THere are certain things that humankind should not tamper with, ant time travel is one of them.

Hey do some searching this was allready posted before
And besides just being in the past would effect time

Time travel would be disasterous unless it was view only. Then you cant change anything. Mabey killing a fly could end up killing you in the end. As far as the time paradox, I think that would self destruct the time space continum.

I`d go back in time and play a bunch of Pink Floyd songs before their members were even alive, thus making fame and fortune, and getting credit for "creating" a new sound.

haha just joking, Floyd is the sh**.

(but dont tell me you`ve never thought of doing something like that)

I like the idea of different parallel timestreams, in which if one was to go back in time and change something, a new time stream would branch out from the exact moment of the change and continue on parallel to the normal time continuum. Any change due to time travel would result in the creation of a new parallel time stream which shows the effects of these changes.

Don't you think if time travel is possible through science... that it would have already been accomplished and one from the future would have already came back from the future to tell us. Tell us that it is possible, and since this hasn't happend... my conclusion: impossible.

Yeah I think going back in time could mess everything up. Like on the movie Butterfly Effect, or the part of the Harry Potter Prisoner of Azcaban movie. I know these are all fiction and if we were able to really go back into time something totaly different might happen, but these are some things to think about

Or it could possibly turn out like Quantum Leap, where you can see what's going on in the past, but aren't able to involve yourself in what's going on.

Hey, I don't do searches.