Does Stephen Hawking not believe in Negative movement?

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According to Stephen Hawking, time travel to the future is not only possible but proven, however time travel to the past is impossible, however this doesn't make sense. It seems to me that an extension to Newtons laws of motion could be that there is something opposite of motion which exists in the universe. The concept is that the universe (or a universe) is ending, and sort of crunches itself up, this would result in negative motion, which in theory would result in backwards time as well. He believes it's not possible because of the crazy scientist theory, where a scientist uses his vortex to kill himself in the past, so who shot him? Well the answer to this is very simple, the scientist would require a dieing universe to perform the time travel, and he himself would have to be in it for him to travel through time, therefore, he wouldn't survive, as he would perish inside of the dieing universe, and never get the chance to shoot himself. Also, he had a party, where future scientists were invited. He wrote up a invitation which would be preserved through time for his future guests. However, his experiment isn't all that swift, because, a number of things can go wrong with his invitation over time, which would mean his "party people" would never arrive, because they never received the invitation. It's kind of like those that say the infinite universe is impossible, because someone in this infinite universe would have blown it up, it just simply does not preclude the existence of the infinite universe, but that's another topic.

Man, It's too hard for me to read... 'cause it's BORING. Hello guideX, consider a better revision for your question focusing on the particular question you're trying to ask... — Waffle's Crazy Peanut, Oct 23 '12 at 11:42
The question is focused more on Stephen Hawking's unwillingness to accept the theory of negative motion, and negative motion as a theory. He presents other theories, but for some reason, negative motion is left out. — guideX, Oct 23 '12 at 13:53
There is a degree to which no one here is able to answer for Dr. Hawking's beliefs, and I would rule the expression of this question in those terms off-topic. Once that's done and the extraneous fluff stripped away this is a duplicate of Is it possible to go back in time? and the question that @Qmechanic identified. Thoughts from the commentariat? — dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten, Oct 23 '12 at 16:00

RedGrittyBrick · Answer 1 · 2012-10-23T14:53:35.087

Does Stephen Hawking not believe in Negative movement?

Yes,

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Stephen Hawking does not believe that it is possible to travel into the past.

We are all travelling forward in time anyway. We can fast forward by going off in a rocket at high speed and return to find everyone on Earth much older or dead. Einstein's general theory of relativity seems to offer the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that we could travel back in time. However, it is likely that warping would trigger a bolt of radiation that would destroy the spaceship and maybe the space-time itself. I have experimental evidence that time travel is not possible. I gave a party for time-travelers, but I didn't send out the invitations until after the party. I sat there a long time, but no one came.

(from Hawking on June 16 2012)

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If I ever get a time machine, the first time and place I'll go to will be to Hawking's party. Before setting off I'll look up yestermorrows horse race results so Stephen and I can give all the bookmakers money to his favourite charity. It willan have on-been a hoot!

I must be hiding behind the balloons.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 23 '12 at 08:44

We know time travel to the future is possible because we all do it. More specifically, we know time travel to the future at a rate faster than one second per second is possible because particles in the Large Hadron Collider do it.

Time travel to the past is a different matter because it implies we could create closed timelike curves. If CTCs existed they would allow causality to be violated and invalidate just about all the assumptions that modern physics is based on. Since modern physics works very well we conclude that CTCs don't exist.

The fact CTCs don't exist doesn't mean they're impossible, though it does imply that at best they're very unlikely to occur. No-one has managed to prove that CTCs are impossible, but then no-one has managed to prove they're possible. At the moment no-one knows for sure whether CTCs can exist, but bear in mind my comments above i.e. we can be sure there are they aren't common.

Does Stephen Hawking not believe in Negative movement?

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