is it *hypothetically* possible to go BACK in time ?

<p>i once remember reading somewhere about this on a very informative thermodynamics website. can't recall it, though.</p>

<p>it claimed that if one were to enter "two black hole craters" that joined together, then one can travel back in time. they'd be able to live it again. something like this; it is not accurate the way i'm posting it.</p>

<p>this is a very abstract topic.</p>

<p>and, abstract topics are reserved for intellect CC'ers like us. </p>

<p>what do you know about it?</p>

<p>It makes no sense, black holes can't have any craters and two black holes can't co-exist together.</p>

<p>But you can go back in time.....just close your eyes and thin of some wonderful time you had in past :)</p>

<p>my friend would say, </p>

<p>"only when you're high"</p>

<p>I don't think anything can come out of a black hole. The key is approaching a black hole but not entering it.</p>

<p>Discussion of black holes with respect to time possibly relates to the fact that as you approach a black hole you may be able to approach the speed of light. Under Einstein's theory, as you approach the speed of light, time slows down for you. Time on earth, however does not slow down.</p>

<p>I can only think of going to a different time zone</p>

<p>1) Black holes do evaporate (radiate).
2) I assume baller4lyfe meant wormholes and not blackholes. These are all pseudo-science. I recomment you find a book called "Wormholes and Time Warps" by Kip Thorne. It's a THICK book wholly about this topic (and written in lucid language, still complete with all formulas as appendices).</p>

<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>I'm reading this book right now.
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393312763/104-1087694-3608756?v=glance%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393312763/104-1087694-3608756?v=glance&lt;/a>
Read it if you're interested by that sort of stuff.</p>

<p>actually i meant to say theoretically on my post, not hypothetically...</p>

<p>check out this link</p>

<p><a href="http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/07/20/speed.of.light.ap/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/07/20/speed.of.light.ap/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>this is faster than the speed of light ?</p>

<p>but i also read that even if one were to go faster than the speed of light, time would slow down for you, not reverse..</p>

<p>Read up on kip thorne, and you'll figure it out.</p>

<p>actually i meant to say theoretically on my post, not hypothetically...</p>

<p>check out this link</p>

<p><a href="http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/07/20/speed.of.light.ap/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/07/20/speed.of.light.ap/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>this is faster than the speed of light ?</p>

<p>but i also read that even if one were to go faster than the speed of light, time would slow down for you, not reverse..</p>

<p>or look at this:</p>

<p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4097258.stm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4097258.stm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>
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but i also read that even if one were to go faster than the speed of light, time would slow down for you, not reverse..

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Um, no. It will reverse.</p>

<p>T = t / [1-(v²/c²)]</p>

<p>T is dilated time, t is time when stationary. v is velocity, c is 299792458 m/s. If you put a value of v higher than c, the denominator becomes negative, giving you a negative dilated time value. This is taken to mean that time has reversed. Try v = c, time will freeze!</p>

<p>Yea if you go at the speed of light, and say were on a space ship and came back to earth, the people of earth would have aged relative to their position to the sun. Its all cracked out but what if god was an alien.</p>

<p>mercurysquad, atually the equation is </p>

<p>T = t / sqrt([1-(v²/c²)])</p>

<p>Then, if v>c, you have the square root of a negative number, which means a better model is probably needed to compensate for that. But one of the fundamental ideas of special relativity is that nothing goes faster than c (which the above equation is founded on).</p>

<p>crap.... i forgot the square-root :o then my whole post is wrong. :D been years and years since i read that stuff so...</p>