This thread was created in the future yesterday: The Time Travel Talking Thread

[Wacom Guy]

I went to the past tomorrow, and I am arriving yesterday.

Verbs should be in the tense of the time traveler's perspective, adverbs should be in the tense of the linear timeline. But only if adverbs have tense. Can't remember...

[annix.archivist]

if it's considered that time itself is pretty much just an abstract idea developed by the human psyche to organize thoughts, explanations, events, etc., wouldn't time travel be impossible because time isn't an actual thing in the first place? i have hardly any grasp on the concept, so please correct me if i'm wrong

[xeroticDeceiver]

From a fifth-dimensional standpoint, all time is visible at once. Traveling in time would require us to leave our three dimensional existences behind. We can no more travel through time than a square you draw on a piece of paper will move when you shake the paper.

Then think about this. You can draw a square on a piece of paper, then put your finger on the paper inside the square without touching the edges.

Imagine what fourth and fifth dimensional entities could do with our three dimensional forms.

Anyway, like I said in the comic discussion thread, while I desperately want time travel to be possible, I have a hard time believing in a "Time Police" or whatnot that were significantly more efficient or effective than normal police.

There would be billions of tourists everywhere. Nazareth, Dealy Plaza. Imagine September 11th with all sorts of crazy time travelers. Time Tourists would be screwing up left and right.

Unless you're just dealing with alternate timelines and branches and junk and then I have to wonder: what's the point?

If I go back in time to change my past, I want to change my actual past and not some alternate-me's past. I'm selfish that way.

[AmericanWonderland]

I don't know how it would work, but I always imagined time travel being a sort of big vacation you save up all year for type of thing.

[Wiwaxia]

There would be billions of tourists everywhere. Nazareth, Dealy Plaza. Imagine September 11th with all sorts of crazy time travelers. Time Tourists would be screwing up left and right.

Unless you're just dealing with alternate timelines and branches and junk and then I have to wonder: what's the point?

If I go back in time to change my past, I want to change my actual past and not some alternate-me's past. I'm selfish that way.

If you're using something like a wormhole time machine, it's physically impossible to time travel before the actual creation of the time machine, which solves the time tourist problem. Of course, the instant it's created all hell breaks loose.

Although, actually, what if you had a wormhole/portal time machine that could only "spit out" one thing at a time, so its timeline eventually fills up and you have to make more? hmmm.