it's impossible, and will remain impossible forever. If it were possible, it would already exist and would have always existed
Or
the best we can do is create a snapshot to return to. If Time Travel ever gets invented, it would only be possible to travel back to the point in which it was invented, impossible to travel further back.
I do not believe it's possible to time travel back to the Dinosaur ages, for instance. Even time travel back to ww1 and ww2 seems impossible, unless the tech has existed and been hidden from us for hundreds, if not thousands, of years
I’m just curious, I don’t have extensive knowledge on this or anything, but.
Wouldn’t this assume humans are the only entities in the universe? It’s possible we haven’t discovered time travel, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it is impossible, and also doesn’t mean some other entity didn’t “have it” for a while now.
End of the day, I think it’s just a fun thought experiment. The other possibility is combining time travel with the concept of infinite universes. Every instance of time travel wouldn’t go back to the original timeline, but would bring you back to a specific point while creating a new timeline. Then it gets interesting, if you can’t travel between parallel universes time travel effectively is “useless”.
Idk why I even typed this all up, thinking about this kinda stuff always was super interesting, feels like I spin myself in circles everytime I think about it haha.
Humans having the technology is irrelevant. Either it's possible, and always has been possible and has always existed, or is impossible, and will always be, and will never exist.
I mean, if time travel doesn't exist in this exact moment, then how could a future traveler get to this point in time? If a future traveler could travel back to now, then time travel must exist now and must be possible now, in order for the traveler to exist in the now.
If it ever gets to a point where it exists, either it exists in a way where it always exists and can travel back to anytime, or it would have to be a specific snapshot that we could return to.
I'm just theorizing how it could work, regardless of who controls it
Put simply: where would the knowledge of the tech to time travel come from? It can't come from someone in the future, that would cause a paradox. The knowledge has to hava some source at some specific point in time. And then travel before that specific point in time would be impossible.
If someone "invents" time travel in 2037, and uses the tech to travel to 2025 and someone from 2025 sees and and learns about it, then the knowledge only existed from the knowledge already existing.... who is the patient zero of that knowledge? If the traveler from 2037 could go back to 2025, then the tech has to exist in 2025 to receive the traveler.
I have two potential thoughts on time travel:
I do not believe it's possible to time travel back to the Dinosaur ages, for instance. Even time travel back to ww1 and ww2 seems impossible, unless the tech has existed and been hidden from us for hundreds, if not thousands, of years
I’m just curious, I don’t have extensive knowledge on this or anything, but.
Wouldn’t this assume humans are the only entities in the universe? It’s possible we haven’t discovered time travel, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it is impossible, and also doesn’t mean some other entity didn’t “have it” for a while now.
End of the day, I think it’s just a fun thought experiment. The other possibility is combining time travel with the concept of infinite universes. Every instance of time travel wouldn’t go back to the original timeline, but would bring you back to a specific point while creating a new timeline. Then it gets interesting, if you can’t travel between parallel universes time travel effectively is “useless”.
Idk why I even typed this all up, thinking about this kinda stuff always was super interesting, feels like I spin myself in circles everytime I think about it haha.
Humans having the technology is irrelevant. Either it's possible, and always has been possible and has always existed, or is impossible, and will always be, and will never exist.
I mean, if time travel doesn't exist in this exact moment, then how could a future traveler get to this point in time? If a future traveler could travel back to now, then time travel must exist now and must be possible now, in order for the traveler to exist in the now.
If it ever gets to a point where it exists, either it exists in a way where it always exists and can travel back to anytime, or it would have to be a specific snapshot that we could return to.
I'm just theorizing how it could work, regardless of who controls it
Put simply: where would the knowledge of the tech to time travel come from? It can't come from someone in the future, that would cause a paradox. The knowledge has to hava some source at some specific point in time. And then travel before that specific point in time would be impossible.
If someone "invents" time travel in 2037, and uses the tech to travel to 2025 and someone from 2025 sees and and learns about it, then the knowledge only existed from the knowledge already existing.... who is the patient zero of that knowledge? If the traveler from 2037 could go back to 2025, then the tech has to exist in 2025 to receive the traveler.