SteelMagnoliainTexas Posted April 25, 2022 Posted April 25, 2022 I'm new here and on here I might occationaly go by the name: Jessica otherwise go by SteelMagnolianTexas. I just wanted to introduce myself and right now this is the only place I can post, for some reason. I've been a Texan my whole life, but lived in other areas too like Louisianna Washington State, near Chicago, IL and Oregon. I love the West Coast, especially up near the Puget Sound. I have a general question: Does anyone think time travel is possible? I've started pondering it because there is a movie out called "Somewhere in Time". Also, Einstein in an article explained why it is possible to travel in time. What do people think about this? The movie is not recently out, but it is about a young woman who fell in love with a young man, but there is probably fourty years or more between them. The man went back in time to see the woman twice because he could not find the love he so desired in the present day. I have always been interested or intriqued with antiquity, especially the Bible and our own recent past (about the time of the Titanic). Can anyone relate?
MustardSeed Posted April 25, 2022 Posted April 25, 2022 I’m not a believer in time travel. You might enjoy the series Outlander, but it’s really graphic and I stopped before the 2nd season. Welcome to the board. You have to post here a few times and then you can participate fully on the other boards- just be respectful and you’ll get there
bluebell Posted April 25, 2022 Posted April 25, 2022 Welcome Jessica. I don't think time travel is possible, mainly because I don't believe that there can ever be two of me (or more) in existence, but time travel says that there must be.
Robert F. Smith Posted April 26, 2022 Posted April 26, 2022 5 hours ago, SteelMagnoliainTexas said: ......................Does anyone think time travel is possible?..................... Most scientists think not, although some theoreticians like to play with that idea. However, the film you mention is lovely and memorable. In our temples we do have ordinances which actually ignore time, or maybe collapse time, or invert it in such a way that things that have not happened yet have already happened. That reminds me of the Hebrew verb called the "prophetic perfect" in which a prophet will predict the future by using the past tense (prophetic perfect), perhaps because he can see it as if it has already happened. Translators apply the future tense to their translations and must decide that by context. 2
InCognitus Posted April 26, 2022 Posted April 26, 2022 8 hours ago, SteelMagnoliainTexas said: Does anyone think time travel is possible? Time travel is possible, but we can only go forward in time at a steady pace of one second intervals. And that's a bummer, because it's impractical for anything useful other than getting older. It is possible to look into the past, but we just can't travel there. We all do it every day without realizing it. If we look up at the sun, we're looking back in time 8.33 minutes, because that's how long it takes for the light to travel to us from the sun. The light from the nearest star (Alpha Centauri) is from 4.3 years ago. The light from the Orion Nebula is from 1500 years ago. If we could get someone to install a really really large mirror near the Orion Nebula, we might be able to use an extremely powerful telescope to see the history of the earth from 3000 years ago by looking at the earth's reflection in the gigantic mirror. Wouldn't that be fun. 2
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