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Ok, without completely understanding your question I will assume you are asking if it's possible for HUMANS to travel through space and time.
Sounds cool but is it really possible in reality? First off, we're not even sure that time travel is possible and certainly not with our current technology. Why? Because time travel would probably involve accelerating an object to roughly 186,000 miles per second, or the speed of light. At present we can't make anything go that fast except photons, which are light particles. We can do that pretty easy just by turning on a light switch, but photons are the only thing we know of that can travel that fast. Second, even if we could send a vessel loaded with people that fast, they would not survive the trip. Why? Because of a little law from Isaac Newton: "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction". This means that Captain Kirk going from zero to warp 10 would turn him and his entire crew to paste, providing the ship could even survive. There may be a way though. We believe that time travel may be possible if we fly into a black hole. Unfortunately it would take a few thousand generations of humans to get to the nearest one, and then everybody would die when they went in. |
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currently with known REAL physics. Absolutely not.
The 'wormhole' would require such horrendous energies it could easily shred entire star clusters as if they weren't even physically there to resist. and you want to go into this? Good luck. and by making such a thing you most certainly require energies that would rival a sun going supernova in a space as big as your 'wormhole'. The ambient radiation alone would easily vaporize a planet in a millisecond. Better wear some Gamma Ray Blocker 5000(TM) |
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Don't know which way it will be done, and most like we won't see it in our lifetimes...
History is full of examples of people stating things that cannot be done...examples, drilling the ground for oil; the heavier than air machine, the infamous germans getting their sums wrong and saying the atom bomb was impossible in WWII, etc etc. It doesn't help that our two physics models are incompatible with each other. Also the Ancient Greeks had steam power(see Hero), and never thought to apply it! Really anyone that says it is not possible is eventually proven wrong. Yes we need to understand physics better, and we probably need a Theory Of Everything (TOE). This is from NASA's website, and is a true reflection of where we stand: * Conjecture: The very beginning of the quest for knowledge. This is when you know what you’d like to accomplish, but you have no idea if it is even possible. * Speculation: When you have learned enough to know what you do know, and know what you don’t toward solving the problem. * Science: The level when you have learned how nature works. You now know if something can be done and what it will involve. * Technology: The level when you can begin to engineer and build working devices to apply those laws of nature to answer your goal. * Application: The final state when the technology is good enough to be put to common use. Cars, airplanes, microwave ovens are all in this category. Interstellar travel is currently at speculation: The bad news is that the bulk of scientific knowledge that we have accumulated to date concludes that faster than light travel is impossible. This is an artifact of Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity. Yes, there are some other perspectives; tachyons, wormholes, inflationary universe, spacetime warping, quantum paradoxes...ideas that are in credible scientific literature, but it is still too soon to know if such ideas are viable. ...but you need to think how long it took for an idea to develop...Leonardo's sound designs of aircraft were perfectly workable designs in medieval Europe yet took, 400+ years to take flight... ...we knew about microwave radiation for a long time too, applying it to a workable cooking oven?! took a long time in conjuction with other inventions... ...So to answer your question directly, yes I do, by warping space? maybe, maybe not...when? - when the chart says application...when that is...?? good question! |
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