| Dioxinis said: its already happened!
some astronaut treveled like .02 seconds into the future or something by moving in a satalite.... SOMETHING like that
i couldnt be bothered to find the article
now time travel in the movie sense? possibley BUT i've heard a theory where it would only be possible to travel back to the point where we first discovered time travel |
Yeah, traveling forward small amounts isn't actually a big deal, satellites orbiting the Earth do it every day. Something near a massive object travels through time slower than something further from that object or something near a smaller object. Note that we're talking really big objects like planets, not just big objects like a mountain or Gabe Newell (j/k, i <3 u Gabe).
The satellites orbiting Earth that govern our GPS systems constantly lose time because of this and constantly have to be corrected. They're the most precise clocks ever built but they still lose time because of that. It's a pretty small amount of time they lose, but it's still significant considering the satellites purpose. If they didn't do the correction our GPS systems would be more than a mile off for every day they weren't corrected.
So knowing that you could orbit something huge, say like a super massive black hole and travel more slowly through time than everywhere else in the universe effectively sending you in the future. Of course that isn't really feasible and even if you stayed in orbit for a year you would only gain a year and orbiting a super massive black hole would be no laughing matter.
As for your theory at the end, it's stupid and should never be repeated. What physical law would govern that so we could only travel to that point?
