Time Travel! Celebi and Dialga oh my!

It could exist, yeah. For example, if you get close to the Singularity, time slows down. If you stayed close enough to the Singularity long enough, you could go from being 32 to 33 when near the Singularity, but on Earth time, you could end up being over 100 years old.

I would probably travel to the past. I would never want to travel to the future, because, on the chance it's a dystopian, or post-apocalyptic (Or possibly currently apocalyptic) would put too much stress on what's going to happen. An example of the scenario is like knowing the exact time when you would die. You would rather have it just happen instead of stressing your entire life over it, as each and every day passes, you think to yourself, "One day closer to 2064, December 17th..."

I think I would much rather live in the time I live in now rather than any other time. While I think time travel is a nifty concept, I do not think it would be a good idea for it to exist. If someone goes back in time, they could possibly change one little thing, and then, boom, Butterfly Effect.

 

Well, when put that way, maybe, yeah. But I'd rather let it be a mystery than go to see. It seems more fun to wait so the result is a bigger surprise.

 

Time Travel has supposedly existed for decades now. I recommend everyone Google "Project Pegasus". It's understandable they have to keep this kind of technology at bay from the general public, but even so, we're not even close to mastering the "art" (if you will) of time travel. Time travel will likely be made more apparent in our lifetime, but it won't be for another few centuries before we actually understand the entire, complex gist of it. It involves alternating between dimensions at certain light speeds. Let's remember; time technically does not exist; for it is only a mathematical unit of measurement.

That being said, I think it would be very dangerous to time travel, and the safest bet would to only have a very select, trustworthy few test time travel technology. You have to take extreme caution while touring different timelines. Something as minute as stepping on a butterfly can drastically affect that particular, and/or every timeline currently in existence. There's a lot behind this science our own timeline doesn't understand... yet. We need to first reach a much, much higher civilization status.

Living in another timeline will likely be prohibited, and tightly governed by an agency or establishment of sorts. Just like traveling to the moon, time traveling won't be free for everybody. You'll need a degree, knowledge, skills, and special privileges. Even if this weren't the case, I'd be fine living in my current timeline. Time traveling is too much of a risk on my end. Someone could very easily mess up without even knowing it.

 

I absolutely do not believe in time travel. Though not that long ago (probably half a year), I thoroughly believed in the existence of it.

But now, the more I think about it, the less it makes sence to me for time travel to be true. Sure, the concept is more than interesting to many of us, but if time travel were possible, and regular people could go further and back in time, then why is there next to no evidence about it?

If it were possible, don't you think there would have been plenty of visitors from a distant future already? Surely, there might be a possibility that there are, and we just never noticed, but nobody is that good in keeping up an act.

Imagine yourself timetraveling to the year 1700, for instance. I'm pretty sure you would be lost in the way of conversing with the people of that era. Not to mention the huge cultural, political, and more than likely philosophical differences. Now, why should that be any different for someone from the future (in our point of view)?

Another reason for me to believe that time travel will never be possible, is because, like @[member="Nator"] said, time isn't really a thing. You see, other than gravity and matter, you cannot experience time. Time is a human concept based on ritual to understand the world better. If it weren't for time, the world would be a chaotic place. But then again, animals don't need a clock either, and I firmly believe that technically, we are all animals. We could live without the concept of time, but we surely wouldn't be as far in technology and civilisation as we are now.

And finally, if everything I have said is wrong, and there indeed is a way for us to travel in time, I don't think we will ever have the technology to make it happen. Right now, in the 21st century, we are at the top of the world. Sure, the world isn't perfect, but it is at its best right now. The biggest threat for humanity as for now is overpopulation, and there are already 7 billion of us on Earth. Only a few years ago, this number was 5 billion. The world population is increasing extremely fast, and it won't stop. I think that in the close future the world population will be so humongous, that there simply won't be enough food for each of us to consume. Not to even mention our decreasing energy resources. And let's not forget the increasing rate of global warming either. Mastering time travel will be the least of our concerns at that point.


I might have gone a little bit too in-depth here. But yeah, it is a very interesting topic, time travel.