I’ve figured out time travel

[spyder_596]

Originally published at The JFX. You can comment here or there.

I’m pretty sure that time travel will never be possible. There is a simple reason for this. For every great invention there are those who want it destroyed. There are usually a number of reasons these people may have: Anywhere from upholding their beliefs to simply trying to be annoying

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[earfork]

Wouldn't that create one of those universe (possibly only galaxy) destroying paradoxes though? Thus, if we take your reasoning as sound, our own existence is proof of the non-existence of time-travel.

(Should we ever cease to exist, all bets are off)

[spyder_596]

Not really, it would just imply that the only place that time travel exists is within destroyed time-lines, and as such it doesn't really exist. My reasoning is sound, and as such it IS proof.

The other more logical explanation is that if time travel were ever possible (at ANY point of time in either direction) we would probably have already witnessed visitors from other times as proof of its existence somewhere in eternity. Since we have not, it means either time travel is never possible or they are really sneaky.

[earfork]

Re: Your second point. I've heard that argument before and agree with it. If time travel was possible at any time it would be available at all times.

Re: Your first point. Ah, but that would imply multiple universes, as it assumes multiple T-SCs. And if you're going to have multiple time lines, then really you haven't created a "time-machine" so much as a way to travel to parallel universes.

[mrsmilesguy]

or, perhaps more realistically, time-space or what have you can only be bent in certain ways that prohibit the kind of "free form" time travel we see in the movies where you hop into a delorean/phonebooth/gyroscope what-have-you, throw some switches and press some buttons, but instead have the possibility of something more akin to a "time-gate" where we engineer a sort of fixed point worm hole from the "present" to some future point, and can then travel freely between those two "times." Maye time travel is only possible from between say, 2040 and on.

[brigante]

my thoughts are that if time travel was possible, it would have already happened and we would have felt the effects...