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replacement for wretched wording and markup[edit]

   A colleague (who didn't take the trouble to encourage constructive discussion by even saving -- for those who care who the colleague is or when they held forth -- the trouble of searching the edit history) did add to Time travel#Tourism in time the following comment markup (to which i've added meta-markup, on this talk page, trying to make the markup display in a more intuitively clear way here):

"This picture would explain why we haven't been over run [sic]
<!-- several people have tried to edit this, but note that it says "over run" rather than "overrun" in the original essay on Hawking's website, and direct quotes should match the original source so please don't change it -->
by tourists from the future."

   The colleague's concern for non-misrepresentation is praiseworthy, even tho the wording "have tried to edit" reeks too much of the Inquisition or the Klan, and the typographic travesty that is their solution may not even be appropriate for some critical edition of Hawking's works. Here -- leaving behind the pedants' concern about who (Hawking, an editor, a typesetter?) is responsible for the inappropriate internal space -- is an encyclopedia-appropriate version of the passage:

"This picture would explain why we haven't been [overrun] by tourists from the future."

It's literate, harmless, almost devoid of distraction, and not significantly better nor worse than

Stephen Hawking says that this picture would explain why our times haven't been overrun by "tourists from the future."{{cn|date=January 2015}}

--Jerzyt 04:21 & 07:05, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

first time of time travel to the past in world literature[edit]

The first known person in human history, at least for now, who thought about time travel to the past, (and not to the future!) is the well-known British poet Lord Byron. In his play "Cain" from 1821, . In this play, Cain's time journey to the far past of the Earth is described. As far as is known no one in human history had thought of such a thing before Lord Byron. 79.180.18.23 (talk) 02:28, 18 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

False, this article already mentions earlier examples. MrOllie (talk) 02:40, 18 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
first thing first : here the text of Cain Act II, Scene I by Byron
Lucifer takes Cain into the Abyss of Space, where Cain realizes how small and insignificant he is. Next, the two travel back in time, where Cain sees Earth in its former beauty.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hwjn4m&view=1up&seq=15 (talk) 06:14, 19 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Now lets check the seeming earlier examples if they are of time travel to the past :
Rip Van Winkle (1819) by Washington Irving a story probably known to Byron but is is not relevant. a time travel to the future.the hero sleeps for many years and wake in the future. he does not go to the past:
L'An 2440, rêve s'il en fût jamais (The Year 2440: A Dream If Ever There Was One, 1770) by Louis-Sébastien Mercier. The same.is is a time travel to the future.the hero sleeps for many years and wake in the future. He does not go to the past:
Samuel Madden's Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1733) is a series of letters from British ambassadors in 1997 and 1998 to diplomats in the past, conveying the political and religious conditions of the future.Again time travel to the future not to the past.
The more ancient legends are all about going to the future not to the past :@Some ancient myths depict a character skipping forward in time. In Hindu mythology, the Vishnu Purana mentions the story of King Raivata Kakudmi, who travels to heaven to meet the creator Brahma and is surprised to learn when he returns to Earth that many ages have passed. The Buddhist Pāli Canon mentions the relativity of time. The Payasi Sutta tells of one of Buddha's chief disciples, Kumara Kassapa, who explains to the skeptic Payasi that time in the Heavens passes differently than on Earth. The Japanese tale of "Urashima Tarō", first described in the Manyoshu tells of a young fisherman named Urashima-no-ko (浦嶋子) who visits an undersea palace. After three days, he returns home to his village and finds himself 300 years in the future, where he has been forgotten, his house is in ruins, and his family has died. In Jewish tradition, the 1st-century BC scholar Honi ha-M'agel is said to have fallen asleep and slept for seventy years.@@
well you see the picture: in ancient times they had stories about going to the future but not to the past .that was far harder to think about and is Byron invention. 79.180.18.23 (talk) 06:26, 19 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

External links[edit]

Will Wikipedia accept the following link about time travel: NOVA Time Travel Episode? תיל"ם (talk) 14:45, 9 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Because the official NOV account doesn't seem to have it anymore, we should use a stable version, and we have that here:
  • "Nova - s27e03 - Time Travel". Internet Archive. October 12, 1999. Retrieved June 9, 2023.
Thanks for suggesting this. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 16:54, 9 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I would add the following link if the Antenna account existed: Time-Travel by Dr David Deutsch Antenna BBC 1992 . תיל"ם (talk) 11:07, 10 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
So would I. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 15:01, 10 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Time travel is first in Hindu mythology[edit]

According to Ramayana which writeen thousands of years ago kakbhisundi was creature who can time travel 2409:4042:4E91:7CE0:0:0:600A:9F00 (talk) 06:14, 15 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

If you can find a review article or book that summarizes the time travel of this creature, then please add a paragraph with the reference to the article under "In culture". Johnjbarton (talk) 15:37, 15 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Add to the section "Mythical time travel" Johnjbarton (talk) 18:03, 15 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Article stretch's physics jargon to favor pop culture ideas.[edit]

Throughout this article various physical models are discussed which have time parameters moving forward or backward. The discussion in the article around these models pushes the idea that such parameter values amount to "time travel". Do these physical models allow the motion of one selected rigid body in "time" while the remainder of the universe does not follow? That is "time travel", not . Johnjbarton (talk) 16:33, 14 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]