Yeah, time travel is old news *clicks fingers*. But time viewing, that would be even more difficult then time traveling. Relate it to watching T.V. It takes so much more techonogly to watch T.V then going to what ever is on and watching it yourself. in realife.

A lot of these time travel hype is always built in cartoons, hero shows and even movies and that is why we are fascinated by it and think it could be a reality in the near future. I personally think it won't happen just yet, the logic behind it is absurb. As what day_armstrong said in his post; just think about it, you going to 15 years ago and then kill yourself, how does that align itself with reality? We find ourselves in a 4 dimension bounded world, unless we can break ourself out of this bounded world and find the means to travel into another dimension, I don't think this would happen. And history has proven that men given the test of time can develop one of the most amazing things which changes our lives.

Take for instance the simple gadgets you see in today's world; telephone, television, computer ... etc, these basically restructured the entire world's perspective and direction. And in future, we will develop even further and become more advanced creating more detailed, sophisticated devices to aid our lives.

Well, to be honest, I believe this is the dawn age of human civilization. That is to say, in the distant future, say a few billion years from now, humans will look back at us in much the same way we look back at stoneage cave-men. Probably the difference between our future descendants and us will be greater than the difference between us and the cave men.

That said, I believe that the future (or some futures) might hold great things for the human race. Among these...

1) Space travel - between the stars, perhaps between the very galaxies.
2) Time travel.
3) Inter-dimensional travel, or travel to other universes.
4) Re-fueling the sun, or settling on the planets of a million different suns.
5) Altering the past and future to 'suit' the human race better, thereby 're-shaping' the universe (manipulating reality itself, into what WE want it to be).
6) Perhaps a merging of the entire human race into one gigantic super-intelligent being (I'm not saying this is necessarily a positive development, but if the suppression of individuality apparent in our civilization today continues unabated, it's a possiblity, yes).

Note that I'm not arguing that any or all of these things will happen, but considering the timescale involved, it's definitely a possiblity that our far distant descendants will have the technology and the power to do one or more of these. I do believe that this is the dawn age of the human race, and I think it is a tribute to us that we can even wonder about what such a distant future may hold.

Lastly, in all humility I must say that I am probably completely wrong, and that the technologies of so distant a future are probably as difficult for us today to visualize and understand as our modern technology would be to a cave-man. In other words, whatever I have put down above is probably the creation of a limited mind, and the distant future might surpass that in ways we have not (or cannot) even consider.

This post has been edited by Yratorm, LightMage: Dec 23 2006, 01:41 PM

time viewing
Time Viewing

Time viewing can almost certainly be done but I recon the only thing you can do is view it the past that is, not the future. To change something that happened is surely impossible.

-reply by Matthew

my view
Time Viewing

I have been reading these many comments and there seem to be a few good logical explanations, and here is mine on time viewing.

Time viewing (or as basically viewing the past of future in this particular interest) would require a method of viewing time as soemone has already mentioned. Furthermore say we were somehow able to do this through humans or machines the time frame being viewed would cease to exist the moment it is viewed creating another time were you know this particular future. "to be able to view the future would mean the future would no longer be the future". So say we did view time, whats to say this is going to be the future as it can never be the EXACT future once viewed. The only conclusion that I can think of is that you could only view a future for another dimension.

Baring in mind this was written by a 17 year old please don't bring up my lack of knowledge on the subject, I'm simply expressing my opinion using what I know.