Could Time Travel Soon Become A Reality?

[DrFilth]

if you had one chance to travel back in time to see something what would it be

only one visit to the past please

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2665781/Could-time-travel-soon-reality-Physicists-simulate-quantum-light-particles-travelling-past-time.html

[viv38]

I'd be selfish and go back to a time when my beloved dog Tara was alive and spend some more precious time with her. Bliss !

[Graham-W]

But we are all travelling in time. Same direction and same speed but all travelling in time.
Sometimes when bored or waiting for an appointment, time slows down dramatically, and sometimes, when doing something pleasurable, time travels so quickly it's gone in an instant.

[berniecuddles]

back to the day i was born cos if i knew then what i know now i wouldn't have bloody come out!!

[Zeuhl]

/Could Time Travel Soon Become A Reality?/

I don't think it will be soon; it will probably take longer than that...

[jeffa]

Well, here's the riposte which is usually trotted out by the physicists to say that time travel, at least into the past, is impossible: put simply if it were possible, wouldn't the present be inundated with people from the future? Surely someone would have gone back and assassinated Hitler, wouldn't they? Or Stalin? Or Pol Pot? Or people who acquire wisdom through experience and realise that their parents were right all along, and want to have the opportunity to tell them, Mike Rutherford style?

As Naomi says, Einstein's equations at least allow for travel into the future.

[douglas9401]

"...when doing something pleasurable, time travels so quickly it's gone in an instant."

Mrs 9401 has remarked upon just that, several times. :)

[Graham-W]

After typing, I thought someone would bring it down to that level ;-))

[Prudie]

Maybe Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot ARE the ones who came back..

[Elina]

Woodstock Dr ... Wittiest answer excelsior!! ;0) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2665496/Woodstock-45-years-Previously-unseen-photos-famous-music-festival-recall-era-peace-love-half-million-hippies-camped-dairy-farm.html

[jomifl]

Stephen hawking has a point but remember that if you travel back in time you will also go to the point in space where you were when you were at whatever velocity you were travelling at. So, if you went back a thousand years you might well find yourself floating in space watching the solar system disappearing.

[Slapshot]

I'd go back to when someone first kicked a football...... and burst the feckin thing.... ;0)

I'd be happy going back a couple of weeks buying the £110M euro millions tickets in full knowledge of the winning numbers.... ;0)

[jomifl]

Alternatively you might find youself falling to earth from a great height, encased in a rock stratum or struggling for breath at the bottom of the ocean.