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Time Travel: Think It's Even Possible?

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Whilst it may one day be possible for us to venture into the future from the present, going into the past is a whole different story (ex. 'Grandfather Paradox' kind of precludes it).
If time travel is one day possible, it would be ridiculously far into the future and we would all be limited in how far we can travel. To time travel, you would need to be able to

1) record every facet of the universe every moment of existence and store it all in the absolute largest database ever in existence to rerun it later when someone ultimately decides to time travel. And if we would have this capability, then this could be absolutely abused in war and easily lead to world domination, so it would probably never land to the general public.

2) save a "snippet" of the universe. This means every single organism's brains and well-being would have to be recorded, so that we can time travel back to this "snippet" where life can then continue from then on out as usual, due to brain functionality and health conditions playing out as it would have many years ago.

And honestly, more stuff that would take more paragraphs to explain. And I don't see traveling into the future will be possible, as nothing can record the future if it hasn't happened yet. The only way we could travel into the future would be if we were traveling from the past or if there really are multiple realities in different timelines that can be "grabbed", but there is no proof of that :/

As far as we know, there's only the here and now. It's all very unlikely, as we probably would have already seen some crazy shit happen to us in today's time due to someone in the future having come to us with some crazy tech. The fact that the future may be infinite and we have yet to have even one visitor from the future fuck up and give us anything tells me that time travel will probably never be attainable in the way we see in movies.
DunningKruger · 61-69, M
Actually, we venture from the present into the future all the time, 1 second per second, at least within our reference frame.

I get what you mean, though.

The grandfather paradox, though, doesn't preclude travelling into the past. It just precludes the traveller being able to actually change anything in the past that could affect their future, and even that's only true if multiple timelines isn't something on the table of possibilities.

What the ability to time travel may well prove, however, is that time is immutable, meaning that everything from the beginning of time to its end is fixed, which means that free will is an illusion.

Or it could prove something entirely different.
SW-User
Any kind of time traveling is amazing, whether forward or backward. Sending people into the future might even make people’s lives better with advanced technology and knowledge. Sending people back can really screw up the future. At any rate, thinking about it is pointless since we are nowhere near that level of scientific knowledge.
Travelling into the future is definitely possible, just at a fixed slow rate. Other than that I don't know what to think about the possibility. We should ask ourselves the question whether we really want to though, considering all complications.
AdaXI · 41-45, T
You've been watching way too much 90s Star Trek again haven't you? I know the drill.😅
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mindless · M
Only forward at a speed of 60 seconds per minute
rad34556 · 41-45, M
i plan to invent a time machine
The late Professor Stephen Hawking held a party for time travelers, but didn't send out the invites until the next day, surprisingly nobody showed up.
@NativePortlander1970 Yes, I remember that. ☺️

 
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