Is travelling FASTER then the speed of light the key to time travel?

Originally posted by TheComte
There was just a thread on here about the fact that scientists were convinced that people could sense future events. What this implies is that information can travel back in time, or that electrons can exist in two places simultaneously. If that is true then all that has happened, is happening, and will happen already exists somewhere and all we have to do is figure out how to access it. Once technology can figure that out, then I think we will be able to travel in time without having to go light speed.

To answer the OP's question, I would say no. Light speed is not the key to time travel.

[edit on 15-5-2007 by TheComte]

information does travel back in time...there is a reverse time wave function. Its a fact of physics.
Light is a good example.

I think of the speed of light as simply infinite speed.

The only reason we can fantasize about speed higher than 186,000mps is because we have numbers that go higher than 186,000. Speed of light is not a number, despite being written as one by us.

Think about it, if an object's mass becomes infinite at the SOL (speed of light) it would occupy all space in existence, thereby being anywhere it chooses instantly. There is absolutely no need to ever go faster than this. Anwhere instantly, there is no more speed, it's out of the picture now, same as you can't have less than 0, yeah you can write it -5 -9 blah blah blah but that's just stuff we write. You can't have less than 0, it is infinite nothing. The speed of light is i think is therefore the maximum speed that exists, infinite speed, nothing beyond it but imaginings from our number system.

Mass has nothing to do with size. Something with infinite mass could be any size from a pea, like a black hole, or something massive like a star. Then again, can mass, or anything for that matter really be infinite?

I believe time isn't something that can be manipulated or changed, because it isn't real. Time is a measurement. We can only see back in time when we look at old light, like the light from stars. Almost like when we are looking at a photograph.

Furthermore, I believe that light has nothing to do with speed. If we had the energy, and the means of traveling faster than the speed of light, light wouldn't be a factor. If we did travel faster than light, we would probably see darkness all around us because light wouldn't reach us at that speed. Except when we look in front of us, then we might see an intense white light because of all the meshed old light.

reply to post by hikix


I've thought about this to some length over the years. A couple years ago I actually thought of white holes in a discussion with my stepfather. 2 years before i read about white holes in astronomy magazine. It isn't too far fetched. Relativity suggests time speeds up as you speed up (around you that is), while you see no difference. Therefore, time slows down for you even though you can't tell that it is.

That being said, think of a black hole. Is a singularity an infinitely dense object or is it simply material that has been accelerated past the speed of light therefore not only does it exit this dimension but goes back in time? This is the entire premise behind what astronomers now call "white holes" and how some scientists believe what you have between a black hole and a white hole is a wormhole of distorted space/time. Some scientists believe that all black holes have a white hole somewhere (maybe even in some completely different dimension).

This could be the entire reason our universe is expanding. Dark energy is currently theorized as particles blinking in and out of reality throughout the known universe. These ghostly particles are supposedly responsible for the increased rate of expansion we see with the hubble. It's possible that our universe has more white holes than black holes, therefore cancelling out the exiting of material with the more abundant influx of material these white holes are emitting into our universe.

All kinds of possibilities....

A couple years ago I had this conversation with my stepfather in which I talked about an idea I had. In my idea I thought that perhaps some material does become accelerated past the speed of light and exits this universe altogether. Due to relativity this material would also be traveling back in time. THEREFORE, it is possible that white holes from 50 million years ago are from black holes in our universe today.

Since our universe has constantly been expanding since the big bang, this material being sent back in time through these wormholes and exiting from white holes would have a smaller and smaller universe to exist in.
Therefore, perhaps this same energy in all the black holes that will ever exist and have ever existed are simply pushing matter and energy back in time to the exact moment of the Big Bang therefore creating it in the first place by focusing all that energy into a singularity of it's own. If you go back in time before the big bang there is no longer a universe for this energy to exist within so the wormhole can't find a place to exit no matter how far back in time that energy goes..

Kind of deep thoughts but I'm just getting started here.....


-ChriS

[edit on 30-5-2008 by BlasteR]