• Karyoplasma
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    111 months ago

    Backwards time travel is physically impossible. You would need to travel at truly negative speed to achieve it, but the magnitude of speed is always positive.

    • Flying Squid
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      1511 months ago

      Stop trampling on our hopes and dreams, it’s all we have left.

      • Karyoplasma
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        11 months ago

        Thinking about it, it’s even more complicated than that. You’re right that a negative speed would not work since the square of a negative number is positive anyway. But a speed higher than c would result in a negative square root, so no real solution. Also, traveling at exactly the speed of light would divide by zero lol

        But maybe our formula is wrong. Or it’s just impossible, who knows?

    • Zuberi 👀OP
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      11 months ago

      Whoosh material right here.

      Edit: Apparently OP is making a joke. Mmmhmm