Time Travel, Teleportation Or Traveling Faster Than The Speed Of Light

[WackyWabbit]

Which of these will be achieved first, 2nd and 3rd and what do you base your choices on?

[bibblebub]

only teleportation might happen, the others won't be achievable on a macro scale that humans would recognise in everyday life

[woofgang]

we already travel in time but only in one direction.

[bibblebub]

Fudd - i do use my imagination but the OP is about achievable objectives

[WackyWabbit]

I also forgot to add to the op, forever living and what i mean by that is finding the switch in our dna that tells us to start getting old because if we can isolate this switch and find a way to disassemble it or remove it altogether so it can never be activated then we'll be able to live forever bar accidents, murders and sickness etc.. This i think will be achieved the first. Fudd travelling faster than the speed of light will allow us to navigate the stars, milky ways and other secrets our universe is hiding from us but won't let us be able to travel through time which is a rather more complicated beast altogether.

[WackyWabbit]

Fudd do you have a throwaway email address i can contact you on? You seem rather familiar and there's something i'd like to speak with you about offline if possible? It's very important, i think i have something that you maybe very interested in.

[WackyWabbit]

I have no idea who gravitate is fudd.

[WackyWabbit]

Maybe we're mistaking each other for persons we think we know who turn out to be complete strangers. Does "Our friends in yonkers" mean anything to you?

[WackyWabbit]

I apologise if i offended you, it was not my intention, it's just you remind me of an old face i had on various other sites :)

[jim360]

I think bibblybub is in essentials correct. Teleportation of a sort might end up being feasible; the other two seem incredibly unlikely. Perhaps not impossible, but I believe a form of quantum teleportation has already been developed so if all three were possible then it would be that one first, and the other two later. If at all.

[bibblebub]

At least for a first ever posting on a Friday night it's not overly trollish so I'm quite happy to reply that the speed of light will only ever be asymptotic, whether you approach it from below or above, and would take an infinite amount of energy to switch between the two.

[WackyWabbit]

How about finding the switch to turn off aging jim? That's a very viable and achievable plan i think. We must have bio engineers and dna/gene sequencers on it as we speak i would've thought.

[jim360]

I don't know enough about biology, really. I thought aging was more of a process to do with faults developing in DNA and cells over time than something you could just switch on or off, although I may be wrong. Not sure living forever could be achieved or would even be desirable, but since I don't understand it at all I'll put it as 2nd on the list behind teleportation. Or maybe first, since macro teleportation is still a long way off.

[ludwig]

I think they'll be done in the following order..

Time travel, teleportation, speed of light, and finally time travel.

[bibblebub]

Since it's on tv at this very moment, there was an item on an episode of QI about some invertebrate or other that only dies through disease or being eaten and basically regenerates its various body parts; so there must be some DNA sequencing that could lead to a form of immortality or longevity.