Is Forward Time Travel Possible? Newton's Universe - No, time advances at a set rate. One cannot accelerate the progression of time.
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According to Einstein's Universe travel into the future
is possible. This is because he has linked time and space as one continuum.
In this continuum, if one accelerates to reach the speed of light then time
stops. The mass traveling at the speed of light will no longer experience
time, but everything around the traveling mass will continue to experience
time as usual. This theory has in fact been proven in a study conducted by
Professor Carol Allie at the University of Maryland. Professor Allie tested
this theory with the help of two
atomic clocks. She placed one clock on a super-sonic jet and left the other
clock on the air force base. The jet was then flown around the world. When
the jet returned, the clock on the jet was slightly slower than the clock
left on the base. This proved that faster moving objects
experience a slower time. The only limitation preventing this travel through
time is our limitation of energy. In order to achieve this speed, man must
accumulate a force equivalent to an exploding star and be able to gradual
apply it so that the time traveler would gradually
accelerate at the rate of one G per minute. Any faster rate would crush the
passenger, making survival impossible. Even if the energy could be harnessed
and accelerated with moderation at one G a minute, it would take a tremendously
long amount of time for the masses remaining still before the traveler finally
achieved the speed of light. As a
result, forward time travel is possible, but it is also highly unpractical
at this point in human evolution ("Brian's Views...").
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