Can we travel in time?

[Druid Bremen]

It does not depend on the size of the hole. Something as small as us can simply get sucked in, flow around the edges at nearly the speed of light, and the friction would kill you. If not, the black hole's gravity will. Even a planet can get sucked into such a hole, let alone something as small as a human being.

[Dagobahn Eagle]

My big question is what on Earth you would do with things that got in the way.

 

If you were to travel from today and appear on the empty floor of an appartment building in 1911, you would not hit anything physical except from the floor you'd be standing on. However, what about the air around you? If I move my hand through the air, I move oxygen, dust, hydrogen, viruses, hairs and things I would not like to be reminded about. But this is if I move my hand at a certain speed, let's say 5 kilometers per hour. If you suddenly were to "pop into" the appartment, you'd suddenly be at the same place as all the atoms and air molecules are whatnot.

 

If you did, what would happen? I don't think there's a way of knowing, as we, to my knowledge, have so far not been able to make an object instantly appear somewhere from somewhere else (which would imply, if the object was not "teleported", that it was moving at infinite speed). Now, if an object suddenly was to appear on something, that something would get crused, the newly arriving object would be crushed, or the thing that got hit would have to get out of the way. If someone just popped instantly into an area, wouldn't it mean that the air in the area would have to move infinitely fast to evade it?

 

Now, I'm not a scientist, so SkinWalker or someone else might tell me some of this is incorrect pseudo-science (which I feel it is:p). But they are my views.

 

Also, on changing time: I believe that most big things could have been avoided by someone doing a tiny thing different far earlier than the big event.

 

For example, let's say you lose a penny. This slows you down four seconds and you reach a crosswalk four seconds later than if you hadn't dropped the penny. This means that the girl who was crossing the crosswalk will be over without needing to pause for you. She gets to her house a couple of seconds earlier, and gets down to watch TV. Almost instantly after being turned on, the TV goes dead due to a power outage. However, the girl had time to see a glimpse of a Star Trek episode, which reminded her that she has to prepare for her class trip to NASA. And so on and so on.

 

On your way to the gas station, you pass a guy who stops to look at your four-seconds-behind-schedule car, which had to stop at a red light that was green three seconds ago and yellow two seconds ago. This makes the guy reach his destination eight seconds later...

 

And so on and so on. I recommend you see Run, Lola, Run, as it illustrates the "what if this tiny thing got changed" concept admireably. Matter of fact, it's built around it.

 

Middie.