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Do you think time travel is possible?
If so, what do you think could be done to further improve this idea?
If not, then what makes it impossible?
My stance:
I see time travel as being improbable. Not impossible, but highly unlikely to be done. My reasoning behind this is in order to travel into the future, you would need to speed up the atoms and their "calculations" (physics and chemical reactions) in a given location, or slow down the user's/machine's atoms. For example, let's say there's a scientist in the room with a time machine, said scientist would either have to slow down his own body's atoms and particles to immensely slow speeds, or he would have to speed up the room itself. Seeing as speeding up the room's time would take more effort and power, he would have to speed up his atoms. In doing so, this would generate gradually high amounts of heat in ways he doesn't need. Heat cannot just go away, there needs to be a way for the heat to transfer to the air around the machine (since you're slowing down the scientist's body, that would cause the atoms to be moving so slowly, he would be at near-absolute zero temperatures, forcing many outcomes that may be undesirable). And since the scientist is traveling, let's say 5 minutes into the future, he would need to slow down his particles so much that his reactions would be slower than any living animal known to man. This might be confusing, but this is what I see.
If so, what do you think could be done to further improve this idea?
If not, then what makes it impossible?
My stance:
I see time travel as being improbable. Not impossible, but highly unlikely to be done. My reasoning behind this is in order to travel into the future, you would need to speed up the atoms and their "calculations" (physics and chemical reactions) in a given location, or slow down the user's/machine's atoms. For example, let's say there's a scientist in the room with a time machine, said scientist would either have to slow down his own body's atoms and particles to immensely slow speeds, or he would have to speed up the room itself. Seeing as speeding up the room's time would take more effort and power, he would have to speed up his atoms. In doing so, this would generate gradually high amounts of heat in ways he doesn't need. Heat cannot just go away, there needs to be a way for the heat to transfer to the air around the machine (since you're slowing down the scientist's body, that would cause the atoms to be moving so slowly, he would be at near-absolute zero temperatures, forcing many outcomes that may be undesirable). And since the scientist is traveling, let's say 5 minutes into the future, he would need to slow down his particles so much that his reactions would be slower than any living animal known to man. This might be confusing, but this is what I see.
