well!coolkid has learned to ask for a source!I am obviously not an expert but this should matter.

I second ista's idea because it is very well grounded if you know a little thing called the thoery of realativity.

Also, Wikipedia.

That is all.

KarrothMelu wrote:Also, Wikipedia.

That is all.

Link?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel#Time_dilation

Wiki wrote:Time dilation and suspended animation only allow "travel" to the future, never the past, so they do not violate causality, and it's debatable whether they should be called time travel. However time dilation can be viewed as a better fit for our understanding of the term "time travel" than suspended animation, since with time dilation less time actually does pass for the traveler than for those who remain behind, so the traveler can be said to have reached the future faster than others, whereas with suspended animation this is not the case.

It's also proven, not just a theory, scaled down though of course.

Russian cosmonaut Sergei Avdeyev spent just over two years circling the Earth on the Mir spacestation, travelling at 17,500 miles per hour. Using atomic clocks, it was proven he had 'travelled' .02 seconds into the future.

It might confuse the crap out of you, but time is not a singular 'whole' dimension. It's local. Every object experiences time differently depending on the conditions they are in.

Another interesting piece:

The fastest spaceships of today travel at only .00004 percent the speed of light, and a voyage to our closest star, Alpha Centauri, would take about 80,000 years.

Say we somehow found the fuel and other means to speed that up to say, 75% percent of the speed of light? We could reach Alpha Centauri in 5.7 "Earth years." But for the astronauts on the ship, the trip would take a tad less than 4 years.

Is this post not wasting alot of server space, aint it time it went lol?

By the way i win!

Istalris wrote:It's also proven, not just a theory, scaled down though of course.

Russian cosmonaut Sergei Avdeyev spent just over two years circling the Earth on the Mir spacestation, travelling at 17,500 miles per hour. Using atomic clocks, it was proven he had 'travelled' .02 seconds into the future.

It might confuse the crap out of you, but time is not a singular 'whole' dimension. It's local. Every object experiences time differently depending on the conditions they are in.

Another interesting piece:

The fastest spaceships of today travel at only .00004 percent the speed of light, and a voyage to our closest star, Alpha Centauri, would take about 80,000 years.

Say we somehow found the fuel and other means to speed that up to say, 75% percent of the speed of light? We could reach Alpha Centauri in 5.7 "Earth years." But for the astronauts on the ship, the trip would take a tad less than 4 years.

Hi, your my new friend.

Istalris wrote:It's also proven, not just a theory, scaled down though of course.

Russian cosmonaut Sergei Avdeyev spent just over two years circling the Earth on the Mir spacestation, travelling at 17,500 miles per hour. Using atomic clocks, it was proven he had 'travelled' .02 seconds into the future.

It might confuse the crap out of you, but time is not a singular 'whole' dimension. It's local. Every object experiences time differently depending on the conditions they are in.

Another interesting piece:

The fastest spaceships of today travel at only .00004 percent the speed of light, and a voyage to our closest star, Alpha Centauri, would take about 80,000 years.

Say we somehow found the fuel and other means to speed that up to say, 75% percent of the speed of light? We could reach Alpha Centauri in 5.7 "Earth years." But for the astronauts on the ship, the trip would take a tad less than 4 years.

I can find no flaw!I need one of those approval stamps...

Istalris wrote:It's also proven, not just a theory, scaled down though of course.

Russian cosmonaut Sergei Avdeyev spent just over two years circling the Earth on the Mir spacestation, travelling at 17,500 miles per hour. Using atomic clocks, it was proven he had 'travelled' .02 seconds into the future.

It might confuse the crap out of you, but time is not a singular 'whole' dimension. It's local. Every object experiences time differently depending on the conditions they are in.

Another interesting piece:

The fastest spaceships of today travel at only .00004 percent the speed of light, and a voyage to our closest star, Alpha Centauri, would take about 80,000 years.

Say we somehow found the fuel and other means to speed that up to say, 75% percent of the speed of light? We could reach Alpha Centauri in 5.7 "Earth years." But for the astronauts on the ship, the trip would take a tad less than 4 years.

Everyone's just jealous of my awesome seal.