Gravis Wrote:
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> Alias,
> you can only travel forward in time. read up on
> the theory of relativity. the key is to move near
> the speed of light to make a lot of time pass.
> alternatively, extremely high gravity (eg a "black
> hole") will distort time in the same manner but
> the key is to be able to survive and leave the
> gravity source. "slingshotting" yourself (in a
> ship) around the event horizon of a massive
> gravity source would be the "best" way to do this
> though you would be killed in the form of matter
> and the stress would likely rip your ship apart.
> so if you are looking to travel forward in time at
> an accelerated rate, take a ship that would
> accelerate to near the speed of light.
> unfortunately specks of "space dust" will hit your
> ship and rip it to shreds. the most viable way so
> far is cryogenic freezing, though i doubt you will
> be re-animated. though, if someone manages to
> invent a matter to energy converter, you can be
> stored in energy state and then be rematerialized
> at a later date without time passing from your
> perspective.
>
> in short, it's not going to happen, you are not
> going to travel through time any faster than
> anyone else and you most certainly wont be going
> back in time.
Alias and his "conservative" "Alias's" here do not believe in Evolution, yet the possibility of time travel facinates him. Ponderous, F-ing Ponderous.
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