Back to the Future Gets Time Travel Wrong.

[StClone]

The Terminator Gets It Right! The link offers the fascinating philosophy of time travel that may have a basis in Science.

 

[Cycsk]

This is all so silly. Time is just the measurement of how long something takes or a marker based on how long it has been since something or how long it will be until something else.

History and time are not the same thing. History is what happened. Time is just markers about when something happened. You can't go back.

Even if you were to travel fast enough in the opposite direction of the earth's rotation, you don't go back in time. At best, you arrive one millisecond after you left. Just because the clock and calendar can't mark it with our current system, time still moves forward.

 

[alarson]

This is all so silly. Time is just the measurement of how long something takes or a marker based on how long it has been since something or how long it will be until something else.

I mean, its a little bit more complicated than that, given time dilation and whatnot

 

[CyForPresident]

Back to the future rocks and I will hear no arguments otherwise. Good day Sir.

 

[StClone]

This is all so silly.

What is played out is not time travel as reality per se but the logical implications of "if this than that" as presented in the movies.

I love both movies but see a lot of problems with time travel as portrayed in these and other plots. Suspending disbelief is needed to go back in time (science makes predictions of possibly moving into the future} as beating time's arrow (always pointed forward) seems implausible.

 

[Knownothing]

You mean a Delorian is not how you time travel?

 

[SoapyCy]

I HATE time travel movies because if you went back in time and changed something the future would change and that means you Wouldn't necessarily go back in time to begin with. It's a cyclical loop of impossibilities.

 

[ISUAgronomist]

I HATE time travel movies because if you went back in time and changed something the future would change and that means you Wouldn't necessarily go back in time to begin with. It's a cyclical loop of impossibilities.

Hello, Alternate 1985!!!!

 

[CycloneErik]

Hello, Alternate 1985!!!!

Time to change my calendars, or will my calendars change me?

 

[ISUAgronomist]

Time to change my calendars, or will my calendars change me?

The Space-Time Continuum has your back.

 

[CloneLawman]

Time to change my calendars, or will my calendars change me?

Yes.

 

[CycloneErik]

@ISUAgronomist and @CloneLawman sure used a lot of graduate education to avoid directly answering that question. I'm both impressed and ashamed.

 

[cyclones500]

I HATE time travel movies because if you went back in time and changed something the future would change and that means you Wouldn't necessarily go back in time to begin with. It's a cyclical loop of impossibilities.

Killjoy!

 

[StClone]

I HATE time travel movies because if you went back in time and changed something the future would change and that means you Wouldn't necessarily go back in time to begin with. It's a cyclical loop of impossibilities.

You have given the link dealio in a nutshell.

 

[StClone]

Back to the future rocks and I will hear no arguments otherwise. Good day Sir.

Good for you. Don't question a good thing.

 

[CloneLawman]

@ISUAgronomist and @CloneLawman sure used a lot of graduate education to avoid directly answering that question. I'm both impressed and ashamed.

My answer was direct. There is hope in paradox and contradiction.

 

[BoxsterCy]

Stewie didn't get it quite right either.

 

[mj4cy]

I HATE time travel movies because if you went back in time and changed something the future would change and that means you Wouldn't necessarily go back in time to begin with. It's a cyclical loop of impossibilities.

I think what is fun about Back to the Future is they aren't trying to convince you it's logically solid. They have fun with it hence the Delorean and Flux Capacitor. They just use it to help aid a fun story. Still one of the best movies ever.

 

[BoxsterCy]

The worst thing about time travel is the Morlocks. They freaked little ten-year old Boxster out.

 

[vmbplayer]

the guy invents time travel by falling off the toilet. I don't think accurate time travel science was the films focus. Pipe down and enjoy a fantastic movie.