Are the past, present and future really the same?
465970
It's impossible to describe time because the past can be the present for someone, or the future for another person. The present can be the past for someone and the future for someone. Also, if time is always passing, then there is no stable moment in times passing because it goes down to the most infinently small amount of time in between things happening. As it goes down in infinity, time doesn't really exist, but it has to, otherwise everything would stop.\n\nI suppose that was confusing. Well, it's what I think.
185677
1) You can't change a past event, that's nescessary for you to be able to change that past event. (You can't kill your distant ancestor)\n2) You can't go experience a future event, that requires someone from that future event to change your present event. (In the 'Planet of the Apes' movie series, Caesar went back to his past, and started an ape rebelion that built the world that Charleton Heston visited when he went into his future)\n\nBut how would you know? Changing the past or the future might create a tangent universe, that we can't experience.
784190
That depends.  In this scenario, is the future set in stone (aka fate) or do we have a role in what happens in the future?
530353
I KNEW you were going to ask that! \n\nTruthfully, we cannot predict the future, but we can make guesses. Based on what has gone on before, our mind creates patterns which create some order and predictability.
88929
i do believe so...\n\nmore likely traveling into the past makes more scientific sense than into the future...\n\nwell, u enver know wut we gon discover in the nex years... u never know...\n\njus like thing used to be myth in the past, now, its jus a piece of common sense
391887
yes you can. it takes you back in time...or you get to see the future..this is how time machines work.
459750
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
784439
The best time of my life is NOW. It always was, & will always be the "now." Retrospection of the past is often convoluted, good or bad, but it's all a wash, really, if you like who you are in the PRESENT & live the life you choose.
668179
the present creates your future
7276
If you go back into the past, you'll change the present.\nIf you go into the future, you'll change that also so the future won't be the same when you get there.\n\nI've always been opposed to time travel, though it is cool in movies. :)
136897
I do believe that it is.  For the past is what forges our future.  For example, all the things that happen to you in life help make you the person you are today.  You choices in life either make you a stronger person, or will defeat you in the end.
1080821
all of them past, present, and future
77173
Try and do are two different things.  I will do what I do in 2006.  I live in the present (and currently it is 2006).  I can review my past to learn from my mistakes without living there.  I have not need to re-live that which I have already experienced.  I can plan for some future events without dwelling on expectations.  Tomorrow never gets here.
589080
I don't accept the premise that a time machine is possible, therefore I can't answer such a question, even hypothetically. I can give you a proof that time travel into the past is impossible. It goes like this. If time travel into the past were possible, then at some time in the future, the means to travel into the past will be developed. That being the case, then we could expect to have been visited by time travelers from the future, but we have not. Ergo, time travel into the past is impossible. However, time travel into the future is possible. From the time I started typing this answer, up to now, I have traveled into the future about two minutes. However, it is still now. It is always the present. Always and forever.
381453
Good one...\nIt'd be difficult to put tomorrow and yesterday in the same group as tomorrow is yet to happen and yesterday has already happened.. One is known and the other unknown. But if you are locked into the present there is only this moment with yesterday and tomorrow totally no chance of happening.
1121036
both qustions use the premise that the future hasn't happende yet but the past has. Your memory remembers things that have happened to you personally. Really, you can't change the future, since its not set in stone as the past is, Since it hasn't happened yet, it can't be changed. You can however change your actions in a way that makes it seem like the future had changed from what it should have been, but you werw supposed to make those changes, and did notchange anything.\nYou didn't change the future, just yourself at that moment in time.
586422
Fact 3 can hardly be proved to be right or wrong, and was  many times illustrated to be possibly wrong without failing any other facts we know. Our perception of time might be an illusion, free will might be an illusion, and the "time" and "change" might just be just like sliding our view across a  completely static picture. My favorite reference to this is in Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut.