if you answer this question, you MAY cause a time paradox! j/k, lol
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All the time! It scares the hell out of people. I was given this gift at a very young age. Sometimes its pretty neat to know things ahead of time, and then sometimes its so sad. I doubt that this answer, on any level would cause a paradox, and thrush civilization into a tail spin. It would take a monumental forth coming, to do that.
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Well, it is a fantastic concept! Also, even if this could happen, it would take billions, if not billions of years!\nAnother way is that who and why do we accept the time direction as we do now? Because it fits, us! Well, sometimes this concept is reversed! SO, time could go the other way or go faster or slower, but this only in certain moments, yet!
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According to Einstein, time travel like that which you are speaking is impossible. It revels in the laws of circular contradiction. Allow me to explain: If you were to go back in time and kill your grandfather, your parents would cease to exist and therefore you would cease to exist. But if you never exist, you cannot go back in time to kill your grandfather and he would therefore CONTINUE to exist and eventually you would be born into his lineage. Though time travel is impossible according to Einstein, he firmly believed that time VIEWING was completely possible. As for why you ask these questions, Einstein has no answer. Though Descartes might as he coined the phrase "I think, therefore I am." So perhaps you just "are", and that is why you ask these questions.
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In fact we indeed are traveling in time. But, only in one direction, i.e., towards the future; and that too, with a certain fixed 'speed' (call it, spending one second per second). Do you understand what I am saying? I am saying that we can not move backward towards our past, and , we have no control over the passage of time.\n\nThe special theory of relativity, however suggests a theoretical method to control the passage of time: Time dilation, which requires moving with speeds around the speed of light. The theory holds that, relative to a stationary observer, time appears to pass more slowly for faster-moving bodies: for example, a moving clock will appear to run slow; as a clock approaches the speed of light its hands will appear to nearly stop moving. However, this effect allows "time travel" only toward the future: never backward. \n\nMany in the scientific community believe that time travel is highly unlikely. This belief is largely due to Occam's Razor. Any theory which would allow time travel would require that issues of causality be resolved. What happens if you try to go back in time and kill your grandfather. Also, in the absence of any experimental evidence that time travel exists, it is theoretically simpler to assume that it does not happen. Indeed, Stephen Hawking once suggested that the absence of tourists from the future constitutes a strong argument against the existence of time travel - a variant of the Fermi paradox, with time travelers instead of alien visitors. However, assuming that time travel cannot happen is also interesting to physicists because it opens up the question of why and what physical laws exist to prevent time travel from occurring. \n\nFrom the above note, one can note two points:\n1. Time-travel is highly unlikely, and,\n2. Possibly, it is uni-directional (towards the future, not back to past).\n\nSo, it seems that knowing the future by visiting it is either not possible, or, once you are in your future, you can't come back to present to tell your friends that you know the future!!!\n\nPartly, knowing the future theoretically, is perhaps possible if you understand and meticulously use the principle of causality.
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If you could get your atoms to stop moving, then you would be at absolute zero, so you'd be frozen, and not caring much.\n\nHaving said that, no. Why would time stand still? Theoretically, if EVERYTHING were to stand still, then time would have no meaning, since time has no definition apart from measurements of the number of events  in the universe.
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I have debated this once with another knowledgable person. We came to a conclusion that any calculation/prediction is applicable at only time. This time has different representations in different time zones.\nTo explain a little further. These effects are caused because of a planetary/celestial body movement. That happens at a particular instant (assuming a global time - ofcourse this is a violation of laws of relativity). So if the effects are predicted for 12 noon PST then it is valid in India at 12:30AM the following day and so on...
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WOW ... well, let me answer your last question first ... no one will answer because you are making them think too much.  Personally, I am in awe of such an amazing question.  Alas, I know I will NOT be able to do it the justice it deserves with a simple answer.  \n\nSo let's look at the Original Question ( in bold ) and simply answer that.  Yes, I do believe that time is an illusion, that all we have is now ... RIGHT NOW.  Because our perceptions are warped ( only having 24 hours in a day ) we justify by "prioritizing" what we feel is important and has to be done at this time.  Or we put off things that can be done later ( which has no bearing on this topic ).  We might come across a more important thing to do, and therefore put the things we originally prioritized to be done on hold for the time, and pay attention to what seems to be the new important thing. \n\nSorry this isn't as great of an answer that the question deserved because we can still go into depth about abstract ideas and how we must have them done now ... i.e. Love - among other topics.
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Time machines are possible. The fact that you, yourself, exist is proof of this - you are a machine travelling through time at a rate of one second per second.
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I wouldn't go back in time....I could mess things up!\n\n=)
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Actually, me too!  I look at the clock all the time-- morning and night, and it's 9:11!  I thought, it's amazing.  I went through a period of about 6 months whenever I looked at the clock, it was specifically that time.  I thought maybe it was just in sync with my biological clock, but I couldn't shake the significance of those numbers.  I'm not sure what it all means-- but I do not believe in coincidences.  It's something worth looking into, definitely.  I'll be interested to find out your results.
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I'm sure you are spekaing strictly hypothetically, but don't forget the closer you get to the speed of light (c), the slower time moves around you.  So if you were to go like 90% of c for 1 year, more than 1 year would pass for everyone else.
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Wow.\n\nA few people here know what they're talking about.  A few.  Very few.\n\nMost of these responses are absolutely hilarious.  Most of them are from people trying to sound smart, in which case they do NOT.  Other cases are from kids with big imaginations, with "Anything is possible!"\n\nEinstein was brilliant, no question.  But all great scientists are capable of mistakes, and Einstein was no exception.\n\nHis theory on time travel was based on the speed of light and the "paradox" in which light travels at a fixed rate of speed.  This is true; light moves at 186,000 mps no matter what conditions are in place.\n\nHis theory's flaw is accounted to the fact that light has NO mass.  Light, in it's fixed movement, cannot be compared to any living organism (which is made up of mass) or any other object.  Any object made up of mass (for example, a human being, or any kind of lightspeed-capable rocket ship) does NOT have a fixed speed; therefore the velocity equation paradox that Einstein based his theory on does not apply to them.\n\nThis is all I want to say tonight.  Anyone who understands his theories will understand what I've said here, so think about my statements.  Let me know what you think (again, only those of you who understand what Einstein's theories were all about), as I'm no expert on relativity.  Like everyone else posting on a Yahoo answers forum about Albert Einstein and his theories on time travel, I'm just a fan.  Don't act like any of us are any more.\nEveryone else:  Please don't worry about it.\n\nAlthough I am skeptical by nature, like any smart person, it is NOT my goal to bash the idea of time travel.  After I spotted the flaw in Einstein's theory I presented it to many professionals in the field (or the few that I know, anyway) and have so far received very positive feedback.  I searched online as well and have discovered that others seem to have come up with the same idea, or similar.  Let me know what you think about the whole deal.\n\nBeing proven wrong only makes you smarter.
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All I can say is that I have had the same experience throughout my life.  After reading and going to seminars and asking around, I still don't have any concrete answer.  It seems to be that some people are more in tune with the fact that space/time do not occur linearly.  Maybe we see things futuristically because we bump into a piece of space/time that isn't next in line as far as the timeline goes.  I can't explain it much more than that, as a scientist I am not.  I also can't explain why this seems to happen while we're sleeping.  But I'm feelin' ya bro.
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Solution: According to Sunkist's law of conversion - as you reached terminal velocity and the time portal appeared - Chiquita's banana-form entropy would come into play around France. \n\nAnswer: 2
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Time is relative.  It doesn't really exist.  Time is effected by the speed of motion, and is not an object.
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Because your answer is posted on "Yahoo" time which is the time zone that they are in.. not what you are in
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Time is cyclic.\nThings are born, they age, they die, they are returned to the earth, they nourish the soil, life begins again.\nTalking backward couldn't happen since that moment in time has already passed.\nThat's the paradox proposed in time travel: If you went back in time, then the moment that led up to you traveling back in time would never happen.\nIn closing, time is real...measuring time is a man-made concept.\n(See, answers can be cyclic, too)