Which is better...Being able to control time or going back in time?
440820
i don't think either of those choices are good ideas. if everyone could fix everything and everything was right in this world, just think, how boring would it be?!? and if everyone could control time, there would be more chaos because 90% of the people in this world would be using that ability for personal gain; not thinking of the damage it might be causing to other people.
1003820
Depends. You want to go forward or back. \nI *cough* actually have an entire theory about time travel. \nAnd that is, that there can only be one of you in existence at a time. Thus- if you go forward your putting yourself in your future self's body. And if you go back your putting yourself in your younger self body.\nBut- if I'm wrong and quantum physics 'same thing in countless positions at the same time' is right. Then you can be in two places at once. Therefore time travel- where you keep the machine and keep yourself how it is now, is possible. Then... I have no idea how you would go about it.\n\nIf anyone tells you to plug in the toaster and stick a fork in where the toast is supposed to come out though. Don't do it. Them electrical burns hurt.
1044156
Einstien came up with a theory which was by moving very quickly, beyond humans fathomable grip on speed, you can actually stop time and if faster then that, go BACK in time. crazy huh? well if its ever true, we wont know, cause no one in the future in their right MIND would ever want to go back in time to the 20th century. come on. why not stand in the crowd and watch jesus being stoned while carrying the cross or go back further to live amongst the first civilzation of man.
1119002
Time folds in as much as it is within life.\nThe future exists with the past
720083
well its theoretically feasible to go forward in time but not backwards, but with today's technology its not very doable.
191735
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181171
If you were talking about going back to an earlier time in life, that would be revert back; however, if you are just talking about going backwards, it would be redundant to write "reverse back" being as reverse means to go backward.  Just stick with reverse.
36243
i would give anything for a chance to go back in time
692266
It is an open question of physics, whether it is possible to travel backwards in time. No one knows yet.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel\n\nBut it is known now that it is possible to travel forward in time faster than normal, you just should move around very quickly, close to the speed of light. That is called the Twin Paradox.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_paradox
122265
String theory suggests that when you travel back in time you actually travel into another dimension so theoritically speaking, you would be bringing back yourself from another dimension. But, I don't think you could even get back to your own dimension.
1092955
First off, there's the famous Big Paradox:  Suppose you have a time machine, you go back 80 years and accidentally kill your grandfather before he meets your grandmother.  Whoops!  Now you'll never be born!   So you won't kill him, so he'll meet your grandmother and you'll be born and you'll kill him, so you'll never be born and ... See?  That represents a big problem right there, not just with your grandfather but with events in general.\n\nSecondly, as has been noted, if time travel were possible, don't you think that by now we'd have had visitors from the future?  (And no, I don't think they're sneaking around in disguise; why would they?)\n\nFinally: in the universe as we know it, we experience time in one direction only.  If you don't like the way a movie ends, you can rewind it and watch it again, but the ending won't change no matter how many times you do it, or how far you rewind before pushing 'play' again.  So, make the most of time as you move through it.  You won't be able to change it later, so enjoy it now and do things you'll enjoy revisiting in later years with your own 'internal' time travel -- memory.
1082095
Time travel to the future is theoretically possible.  Travel in space at near-light speed for a short time and a much longer period of time will have passed on Earth.  Or you could have yourself cryogenicly frozen (though I'd wait until they perfect the revival process) and see the future that way.\n\nIt would be a good thing to see the progress of mankind, but you may have a hard time fitting in.  Since there's no way to travel backwards in time, you would be stuck there.
84170
the answer is - it depends - on a lot of things\n\nI hate to answer a question with a question but here goes ...\n\n- do you mean in theory or in practice ??? (in [einstein's relativity] theory it is possible to travel into the future - all you need to do is to go out into space for a while - the time here on earth will continue to progress at a normal pace while time for you will progress more slowly - when you come back you'll have essentially traveled into the future - not quite a time 'machine' but same effect
85459
it would be like being able to run real fast and turn the earth around backwards and turn back time. to about 6 months ago and still know what i know now and prevent certain things from happening...
239754
If it is possible (and that's a HUGE "if"), there would have to be some kind of rule to the effect of "you cannot allow your actions in the past to affect the future."\nThere was an episode of the old "Twilight Zone" TV show that touched on that very topic.
1011306
I believe that "temporal cures," just like "geographical cures" won't and don't cure anything.  It's always a matter of what you do with the time you have, with what you have where you are.
773070
If you are going to time travel (as stated in your question), I would do it on Friday night, with a clear head.\n\nTravelling in time with a hangover could have disastrous consequences.  If you programmed the time circuits wrong, you could end up in the ice age.