time travel?

I saw on the news yesterday where a family in the Ohio, United States of America, found a mammoth skeleton on their property. In a way, that is traveling back in time. It would be an excite discovery!

I like to believe it. I know that time is relative, and I enjoy reading about Einstein's theories, and, on some level, I believe that it is possible, but more in a parallel universe way. There just seem to be too many complexities to time travel within the same space time continuum for me to be comfortable. What about you, troublee?

Do you believe that we can travel in time?

very thoughtful and insightful comments, blue65packer! thanks for sharing and i hope that now that you are older you are feeling better about yourself. peace!

No, not really. I don't watch movies often, preferring historical documentaries most of the time.

i saw a very interesting show on pbs several years ago, the pioneer home, did you see it? anyway, the show took several couples back in time and they lived the pioneer life on the canadian prairie. i seem to remember one of the wives becoming very hysterical!

excellent peavey! sounds very adventurous! are you a fan of western movies, perhaps?

And how about you? Could you please share your thoughts also on this? What would you like to see and in which age? what are the main things you would like to compare with the present world?

yes, buddha3, you have a very healthy and balanced approach to the concept of time travel, i think. it would be very exciting to see the invention of the wheel, and other ancient advances and compare that to the world of the future...and you are so right when you say "ruling our lives"...

well buddha3, there are many places and times i would like to visit, and sometimes have had the thought that perhaps the psychoartist was born into the wrong decade or century! i would love to visit france during the time of the pioneering impressionist artists, meet them, watch them paint and learn from them! i also would like to visit the 1960's because i like the art and fashions from that time and during that time would like to participate as a civil rights activist...i would also like to visit scotland and ireland in different time periods and interact with some of my ancestors!

yes teamrose! i have always heard that the future is where it's at! i am kind of disappointed that by this time we have not yet acheived the technology i saw on the jetsons as a child, namely that butler robot! and the flying cars. perhaps fifty years on down the road, we will be able to aspire to jetsonian splendor!

It is possible to travel forward in time. We're all doin' it. You can vary the speed at which you move forward in time. Einstein, relativity, and all that. Often described by a story about two twins, one of whom travels really fast in a space ship, and ages more slowly than his brother. In fact, if you go fast enough, (the speed of light), time stands still for you, a sort of suspended animation. (So the equations say. No person has actually done this.) What I believe you cannot do is jump backward in time, or jump forward skipping over some piece of time. I started to write an explanation of why I believe this, but I wisely erased it before hitting the post button. (Perhaps some day you can travel back in time and retrieve it for a laugh.) Of course I don't have to travel myself to cause havoc. If I could make information travel backward in time (perhaps over a special sort of telephone wire) I could learn about future stock prices and so forth, and own the world! We don't see the effects this would produce, so it probably hasn't happened. If anyone ever figures out how to do this, I hope it is me. Would be fun.

Yeah i agree with kraszn,if time traveling is really exsist , it would be dengrous , if you went to past , you may break history, if you went to the future, you will not know , the future will good enough like we always watch the tv where cars fly, technology is amazingly we not understand, or may be the future will , untoldly bad

At least I would change the name of one family which is now corrupting the whole India.

ah viji_v2, i appreciate your interest in this topic, and i had not even considered the freedom fighter, war, or politics aspect...if you were a time traveler i am sure you could change a lot for the better!

excellent goal viji_v2...hopefully you will be able to make a difference even without time travel!

yes I actually did like it I love all those epic hollywood cinemas.

hello winterrose! hope you are having a great weekend! i think your response is original and fascinating...i read a magazine article recently about cleopatra and she is definitely an interesting woman...did you like the cleopatra movie with elizabeth taylor and richard burton? i tried to like it, but it seemed too long!

I meant no internet! Do you like Sci Fi films?

excellent point, sararuthbeth22. i have noticed this in a lot of movies about time travel, even from my favorite christmas movie, "it's a wonderful life" which of course is not essentially about time travel, but involves choices in the past affecting the future.

I've had quite a bit of those myself throughout my life. A few years ago I saw the catholic church in Rome in ruins. There was nothing but dirt where bricked pavement, buildings, and pillars with statues use to be. Inside it was empty except for some lost souls. It looked like nothing had been there for a long time. The only thing that made it odd was that I had never seen it before. A day after describing my odd dream to my then gf (now wife) I was online looking at old architecture and saw a picture. I recognized the building from my dream and asked her what it was. She said it was the head of the catholic church in Rome. (She's catholic).

choosing both is fantastic, redhotpogo! personally, i wish i was braver as i have not desire to go into the future because i may just possibly have a fear of the unknown! it would be great to travel into both and be able to compare and contrast, etc....i also have fears of apocalyptic scenes because of an overexposure to scary mean apocalyptic preaching and overexposure to the book of the revelation as a child...i had many real nightmares over it...

wow,that's very interesting! mr. psychoartist and i would like to visit rome...(he is a theologian) and i have always wanted to see the catacombs if they are still here..i have also heard that the house church of priscilla and acquila, some of the early church leaders is still there and i would like to see it...

Yeah like what they said: "mystery make it interesting", and even it really exsist, and what hapend in the past, just let it go, it already happend .

It definitely will because the "chain" linking the past to the present will be altered. The decisions made in the past, if altered, will have a different results in the present too, and in the same way in the future. So it's still better (for me) to go back to the past than in the future. Just a thought, if I go to the future, I'll be gone in the present, then my future will not exist either. Hehe! =)

that is a very interesting point you have brought up about goals and future chan2zexy. do you think if you did go back into the past and change the wrong things, that your present and future would be affected in any way?

thank you jhustinian for your very insightful answer.! your response reminds me of the popular maxim by george santanya, "those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it"....mr. psychoartist and i have been appalled in the last few months to learn that some people do not believe the holocaust of nazi germany ( in which six million jews were killed, not to mention other "enemies" of that state ) even existed! i like your plan to learn from the past and make present and future things better...

Thank you so much for the best response.

oh, these are wonderful thoughts bhebelen14, and a lovely and respectful tribute to your husband and his family! i have enjoyed reading this.

oh yes, i would like to visit the 1960's as well...for one reason, the psychoartist is enamoured of 1960's styles, fashions and pop art, of course! i would like to try out several time periods in the past, but i have never wanted to travel into the future...i have never thought of that before, fear of the unknown, perhaps? my brother was a very avid dr. who fan! i have seen the old version of the show when he and i were young back in the 1980's, where my son says he would like to travel back to!

That is awesome yeah great show that doctor who, and the new series is good too.. but I prefer the old ones! So you never thought of the future eh? Maybe a fear of the unknown does have you on that one, but consider even travelling to the 60's.. the very act of time travel is unknown , so go ahead go forward:) But yeah i agree the 60's sound cool and I would like to visit. i guess for me it's not so much the fashion or anything, just the idea of a simpler time. My X gf's father whom I got along with very well often spoke of living in the 60's as the best days of his life, after hearing so many storeys of his own personal perspective I began to adopt a fascination for the time. But alas time travel has evaded us thus far:( LOL

great idea lauraleigh99! it would be interesting to do both and then compare and contrast them...for instance, people and human nature remain constant in many ways despite the times and circumstances they find themselves within...would you agree? or do you think time travel would prove otherwise?

i would too, cher913! i am interested in history, sociology, psychology, art, culture, so there are a lot of aspects of the past that i would like to experience! and you are right, ordinary people have been the heroes of the ages...

acrossnation, i applaud your response! what a personality you must have...i too am disgusted with having to fill in documents for everything and even having to set up computer accounts and passwords for absolutely every thing in the world! and your ideas for enjoyment and entertainment are brilliant!

fascinating response, mythociate...very scientific . thank you for an interesting aspect of this discussion.

oh, that is a scary thought about your country sinking shaina228! hopefully, this would not happen! we often hear theories that california, usa, will sink into the ocean, as well, and hope that is a fluke! i've often thought that whoever said this was probably jealous of california or critical of hollywood/beverly hills, that kind of thing...

thank you 5(five) ....i think you make a very good point...it is important to keep moving forward rather than back...