H.G.Wells a scientist and visionary?

[Foah]

This morning I saw the movie "The Time Machine" written by H.G.Wells and filmed by an American- British corporation in 1959. As ever the movie attracted me and since I?m aware that the internet can give lots of information I googled H.G.Wells and found the following:

www.online-literature.com/wellshg/timemachine/

After reading the first two chapters and the explanations of Wells? time traveller I was convinced that his theory could work. Just the capabilities of humans are missing.

What do you think?

Michael
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[Lucien_Librarian]

Hi!

I've always been fascinated by the subject myself, but the bad news is that time travel is impossible, or more precisely, impractical. Read the Wikipedia article here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Travel

I also recommend the books of Stephen Hawking which deal with time travel in a scientific, but fun-to-read fashion.

Cheers
L.L.

[Foah]

Hi Ralf!

I was kidding when saying that I was convinced. But Wells?time traveller explained this possibility that logically that it looked almost obvious. But some doubts about my scepticism keep left. I mean have you been aware of formerly people?s believe that it were impossible to survive a speed higher than 30 to 40 K?s (before the train have been developed, even when the first train started riding they claimed that the passengers must die reaching that speed). Or think about Leonardo Da Vinci who shall have drawn the helicopter first. The problem was that people who lived that time wasn?t able to assemble one. And the best example for incredible truth was Christopher Columbus?s yourney to India. Okay, okay he didn?t arrive there, but everyone in the known world had been sure that his ship would drop away from the world when reaching the horizon and fall directly to the hell. :D

So I think it?s a legitimate question to ask whether we (humans) ever will be capable the time travel and grasp all of the opprtunities such a possibility will offer us? And, of course, which way it should change the world we all know? :roll:

Michael
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[Lucien_Librarian]

It's of course an intriguing subject -purely as a thought-experiment- and as an avid fan of Science Fiction I love all sorts of stories playing with the concepts involved. But just to contradict your argument a little: In your examples it was just a question of experience disproving some commonly held belief, but as far as faster-than-light-travel (FTL) or time travel is concerned, it may be the very fabric of the universe that prohibits them from ever happening in any sense useful to macroscopic entities like us humans.

[Prezbucky]

Yo, Ralf

I don't know whether Wells was an actual scientist... but he was certainly a visionary: he was a man (sorry, person) ahead of his time.
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