About time travel?

Question

This might be a dumb question, but my head is loopy, so, oh well.

I know we have records of the past in the form of tangible items, like fossils, antiques, etc., and that we can document our own past with modern video technology.

So, knowing that still my question is this: Since all such records are incomplete, serving to more or less validate stories said of the past, but never with 100% accuracy, what makes some time travel theorists think the past still exists and can be entered? I'm not asking if we change the past once we enter it, but if the past dies in all ways other than those things which transcend small moments in time.

Well, the issue I'm trying to deal with is that many parts of the past are gone, such as buildings and people. So I wonder if there actually exists any kind of "stream," if you will, that could actually take us to them, and if that would require that the things that no longer are today be reformed along the journey down this stream, or if they are gone forever, or what? Is the past, in its whole, gone?

Answer 1

Good question! The answer is almost too simple to be seen, but once you see it can never be ignored.

There never has been a past. In the present moment we can experience artifacts and consequences of previous present moments. But the "past" is a concept we've learned from our culture and language. No one has ever experienced anything but "now" throughout the entire existence of the human race. The "now" you are now experiencing is a continuous discontinuity.

Speculations about the past and future cause inattention to the present. We can become so absorbed in the search for past meaning or future outcome that we fail to see the meaning of what is.

To let go of the convenient concept of time is to see the nuances and details of what's real in the present as it continuously transforms.

Answer 2

Most physicists and scientists do NOT believe in time travel, since it's been proven numerous times that "time travel" per se is impossible. The people who believe that are generally uneducated laymen with fantasies.
People like the idea of travelling into the past and setting the record straight, and learning things that were lost for all time. Most of the time it's just for fun, like entertainment - anyone with brain cells doesn't actually believe in it.

This question was dealt with in Michael Chrichton in his book "Time Line," too, if you want further reading.

Answer 3

I think that some theorist believe that we can enter the past by creating a device which travels faster than the speed of light. It's not that the past exists now, but if one could travel back in time to it, then it would exist. I hope I answered your question.
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Answer 4

Time travel is an intellectual exercise, a paradox puzzle, a flight of fancy. Whether it will ever be anything else is unknown at this time. However, if it does ever become possible, it will explain a lot of past mysteries, won't it?

Think about it.

Answer 5

Cant u remember what u were doing a minute ago? That's past, too.
According 2 scientists time is something like space. We can travel through space means we can change coordinates in space. In doing so does the space disappears? When u leave the room does it blow up? So why should time disappear when we r not in it?

Answer 6

What beast said-I wish I had said. Right on with that answer. I really agree with you.

Answer 7

i don't think i can answer this question because ,the point you're trying to make isn't clear.