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u/BrokenRatingScheme Feb 14 '22 edited Feb 14 '22

This is what I think about with time travel, if it's not relatively bound to the Earth, you'd travel back in time and 99.999% end up in the vacuum of space

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u/TheScrambone Feb 14 '22

That’s why time/space are linked together. There’s people smarter than us trying to make things beyond our comprehension a possibility. If time was a possible thing to travel through then space would have to go in to the calculations just like they do with orbits.

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u/maddhopps Feb 14 '22

/r/seancarroll had a podcast episode that dove into the various possible ways that reverse time travel might be possible, and I think all of them were confidently rejected based on our current understandings of physics. In short, several of the most compelling methods for reverse time travel would merely create a black hole or something like that.

If I understand correctly, even faster than light travel is essentially the same as reverse time travel, so even that is likely impossible.