If a time machine was ever built, is it possible to go into what has not happened yet? (the future) not happen
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The concept of a time machine could exist, but it would take an almost infinite amount of energy.  The only way it could work is exactly the way you are asking,  You can only move forward in time, just at different rates.  So if you want to see the future then time would need to slow down for you and the world would have to speed up.  After a while you could return to earth and it would be the future.  \nFrom what is presently known about physics you can only move forward in time only at different rates from an observers point of view.  Believe me if we could travel back in time someone would have already screwed it up something big by now.\n\nThis is a one way trip, good luck
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NOVA: Do you think that backwards time travel will ever be possible?\n\n\nSagan: Such questions are purely a matter of evidence, and if the evidence is inconsistent or insufficient, then we withhold judgment until there is better evidence. Right now we're in one of those classic, wonderfully evocative moments in science when we don't know, when there are those on both sides of the debate, and when what is at stake is very mystifying and very profound. \n\nIf we could travel into the past, it's mind-boggling what would be possible. For one thing, history would become an experimental science, which it certainly isn't today. The possible insights into our own past and nature and origins would be dazzling. For another, we would be facing the deep paradoxes of interfering with the scheme of causality that has led to our own time and ourselves. I have no idea whether it's possible, but it's certainly worth exploring.\n\nNOVA: Would you like it to be possible?\n\n \nSagan: I have mixed feelings. The explorer and experimentalist in me would very much like it to be possible. But the idea that going into the past could wipe me out so that I would have never lived is somewhat disquieting.
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we r travelling at 1 second forward per second.\n\nIf that's not that u meant, the easiest and most likely way to get a time machine to time travel is for yourself in the future to travel back now to give yourself the time machine now which u got in the "past" from the "future yourself" coming back to gave it to u.
598325
I would go back in time and change a mistake I made some years back so I might not be in the situation I am in today. Sorry, won't go into further information on that.
298511
No.  Everything includes all the things that exist.  The future has not happened yet and therefore doesn't exist so you cannot possibly know it.
124898
Yes and no, Time travel is almost certainly not posiible and at the same time might be. It is believed that going faster than the speed of light would allow you to go back through time, but this is supposed to be impossible, but hawking radiation does it every second as it escapes black holes so it must be possible. Although if it does go back in time wouldn't it just go back to the time when it was in the black hole and not be observable to us. So maybe.\n\nAlso their is the Granfather paradox, which says that if you go back in time and kill your grandfather, then you never could exist and go back and kill your grandfather, so you can't, but then you never killed your granfather, so you do exist and kill your grandfather, so you don't exist and can't, it goes on for as long as you want to think about it. So their is another theory to bypass that one, it says that if you leave this exact point in time, you enter another universe altogether, one that you can change without consequence, making it possible to kill your grandfather, but als killing the reality of the universe you came from. Interesting huh?
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Well in all simplicity, if that were fact then yes it would be conclusive proof.  But can you state that we have never encountered a time traveler with any margin of accuracy?  I think not.  If technology ever reached the point of time travel, there is good reason to believe that philosophy and laws of that time period would dictate how our future friends would carefully act in their past (our present).  The same laws (along with technology) would also, most likely, prevent folks from misusing time-travel technology.\nAlso, I don't think we can accurately predict what sort of effects it would have on non-time travelers.  (I mean, you and me, the people who don't "go anywhere" in time)  Who knows weather we time-bound folk would have any way of perceiving the effects a time-traveler would have on the time line?
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Time travel seems to make sense to us because we have the concepts of past and future.  In particular, we can vividly picture in our minds the parts of the past we have experienced.  The past can seem to have a kind of reality because of memory, as the can future because of imagination.  But, neither the past nor the future have any real existence.  There is only the present.\n\nTime is not a container like space is.  We can travel in space because other places really exist.  Time is not a container.  There's nowhere to go.  So, no, time travel is not possible.
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Sadly, I've actually heard about this before.  I can't believe how much useless junk I put into my head...I'd say pure fiction.  Its just more likely that he was some bored computer geek trying to get some attention.  Its still unclear whether or not time travel into the past is possible.  Based on current science I'm leaning toward the impossible side.  Oh well, 2036 will be here soon enough.  Then we'll know for sure.   ;)
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Traveling into the future is possible.  Going back through time, however, is not.
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It's not necessarily impossible according to theory, but given our current technology, it's out of the question.  There's a lot of trouble with time travel theory, including multiple paradoxes.\n\nThe most famous paradox is, of course, the grandfather paradox.  It goes something like this: One day, after you've built your time machine, you decide to travel back into the past to shoot your grandfather before your father is born.  Here is the major paradox, if you suceed in killing your grandfather, you couldn't be born to go back and shoot him.  Just as well, the conditions required for you to shoot him couldn't exist and thus he lives.\n\nStill on the 'travel back in time to shoot grandpa' string, several other things could happen as well.  You could be transported to an alternate timeline, similar to ours, but not ours, and whatever you do there doesn't affect anything in our time line.  You could go back and try and kill your grandfather, but you are thwarted in every attempt, which tends to imply some sort of destiny or grand scheme.  You could try to go back in time but are ripped to shreds because every fragment of your being wants to be in its natural time.  There's a million and one other things that could happen.\n\nThat, I believe, is not necessarily answering your question, though.  Time itself is not understood by physicists even now.  What it is, no one is quite sure!  (However, I'm fairly certain time is related somehow to mass.)  One thing that's always for certain is time moves forward in a very linear fashion, cause followed by effect otherwise called casaulity.  I can't say one way or another why exactly we can't go back in time and I won't say it's not possible, some theories say it is.\n\nHowever, I believe Stephen Hawking offered up the best proof against time travel to date: Wouldn't there be time tourists from the future visiting us if time travel was feasible?
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No we cannot. The time travel stories are our over enthusiastic mind's work. It just cannot be possible. Unless we attain speed of light. Do u believe in relativity? think about it... maybe u will find answers there.
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Time travelling is a very difficult topic.\n\nYou can supposedly travel into the past if you travel faster than the speed of light but this involves getting a source of infinite energy as when matter gets closer and closer to the speed of light its mass will dramatically increase.\n\nThis is said to be very unlikely but general relativity says it may be possible on highly unusual circumstances.\n\nWormholes, permitted by general relativity,  could be possible only if it is traversable.\n\nIf you read general relativity and objects at speed of light you get time, space and gravity based dilations where light appears to be bent by gravity and arrives at an object at different times.\n\nYet again the object has to be travelling at 0.99c or faster!!\n\nI says time travel will never happens but i wish it would.
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the answer is - it depends - on a lot of things\n\nI hate to answer a question with a question but here goes ...\n\n- do you mean in theory or in practice ??? (in [einstein's relativity] theory it is possible to travel into the future - all you need to do is to go out into space for a while - the time here on earth will continue to progress at a normal pace while time for you will progress more slowly - when you come back you'll have essentially traveled into the future - not quite a time 'machine' but same effect
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Assuming time travel is possible, I think such a senario might be possible.  The trouble people have with time paradox lies in the assumption that every thing in the universe shares the same time line.  Why should that be true?  Here's an example:\n\n\n------  X  -------------------  Y  ---------\n\nAbove is our theoretical timeline.  Y represents me, in the "present".  I use my time machine to go back to X, before my grandfather sires my father, and kill him.  Logic dictates that I shouldn't exist.  What I'm suggesting looks like this, instead:\n\n---------------------------  Y  ------------\n                             \n\n---------------------------  X  ------------\n\nX & Y still represent me & my grandfather, but each of us now possess our own separate time line.  Instead of "going back in time", I simply hop off my timeline & onto his.  I am now free to perform my assassination, without consequence to me (beyond the obvious legal ones), as I was not born on this timeline, but my own.  Whether or not I can now return to my own timeline is an entirely different question, however.
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I don't think it is possible.  If it was possible, it could sure mess up current events...or would it mess them up or fix them and what would the consequences of their actions be in the long run.  Hypothetically, it can be quite a conundrum really.  I really don't think that we, as humans, have even the remotest possibility of messing with time.  It is, and will remain, in the realm of fantasy and science fiction.
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Einstein said we are living in the past time, that means we have not "now time"!\nSo, nobody can not answer, what time is it! maybe we can ask, what time was it!!