Any ideas?

Edited June 17, 20196 yr by thethinkertank

38 minutes ago, thethinkertank said:

Any ideas?

Yes.

Forward time travel definitely (time dialation), backwards I'd say impossible, but not 100% on that, I've heard arguments that say you can and you can't.

in practice though I'd say both are impossible due to the amount of energy required.

What if we discover a new energy sources? For instance, how much energy is required to move in time 10 years? 

 

29 minutes ago, zapatos said:

What if we discover a new energy sources? For instance, how much energy is required to move in time 10 years? 

Are there any ideas what they could be? I thought that antimatter was the best there was?

4 hours ago, Curious layman said:

 

Are there any ideas what they could be? I thought that antimatter was the best there was?

Just occurred to me.... the new energy source would also have antimatter! Duh.

Just now, Curious layman said:

Just occurred to me.... the new energy source would also have antimatter! Duh.

interesting you say that, but why antimatter?

5 hours ago, Curious layman said:

Are there any ideas what they could be? I thought that antimatter was the best there was?

Unless you can go and "mine" antimatter (e.g. positrons from a radioactive decay), it's not an energy source. It's more like a battery — energy storage. You have to put energy in to create it, and the ways we do that are really inefficient.

41 minutes ago, thethinkertank said:

interesting you say that, but why antimatter?

I thought that was the most potent thing we could use for propulsion, but thinking about it maybe a blackhole type engine, but is that even possible outside of Star Trek?

maybe something more exotic would be needed. Dark energy maybe.

Question is, how much energy exactly is needed to time travel? What speed is necessary to reach a useful time dilation? Such as, if I wanted to travel 100 Earth years within 1 hour how fast would I need to go and how much space would I travel in that hour?

On 6/17/2019 at 12:39 AM, thethinkertank said:

Any ideas?

Sure, just stand still and look at a clock.