Much discussion of time travel stops at discovery of a paradox.
Some time later a researcher proposes some way the paradox can be resolved, bypassed, or deconstructed.
Quantum mechanics of superimposed states gives some possibility that paradox can be prevented.
Much work on high energy theories are predicting that 4D space of our experience has limited capacity to contain energy, before it bends into layers and sheets contained in a higher dimensional system.
With layers and sheets, space time may become folded back upon its history, while short paths between the layers may create possibilities of travel between the stars. Some research predicts that time travel Is as difficult as star travel, and the two must be achieved at the same time with the same equipment configured a bit differently.
Often a colleague will express doubt that time travel will ever become possible. In each instance the colleague is referring to conventional thoughts on the underlying principles.
What Properties Does Space Time Need To Have For Time Travel To Become Possible?
Some people forget that we are already traveling through time. In the past 365.25 Earth rotations with respect to the sun, the world has travelled once around it. Along that way most people would recognize they are older than they were one year ago, So we do all travel through time minute by minute, day by day, year by year. I think the question you were asking was: How can we change that rate of travel through time? Time is not absolute - that is one of the reasons Einsteins two most famous theories were called relativity. For most of us, the difference between Newtonian clockwork time and relativity's difference is so small we can neglect it. The conditions for relativistic travel are too extreme for them to add any significant increase life expectancy.
There is currently no mechanism for going backwards in time. However it is possible to record events that occurred in the past. It involves a mirror and a camera with a telephoto lens. By placing the mirror about 300 meters from the event you can focus the camera back on that event via the mirror. When an event happens, it sets off a trigger that activates the camera. It will record the event about 2 micro seconds ago.
And that is about it. Forget about black holes and time travel backwards through time by some worm holes. They won't happen. The experimental reason for that was if time travel were possible, somewhere in the distant future someone would come back to the present generation to "put things right with the advantage of hindsight".
The best thing you can do with time is not waste it.
This question clearly requires a well-structured response.
From the orthodox perspective, this question clearly demands
a semantic response since the relativistic clock is a socially
localized idealization and not an abstract machine as such.
However, we could offer a more detailed and well-defined
spatio-temporal structure that satisfies the space-time
regression (+ or -). We can state a property of the space-time
continuum, in a general way, as follows: that two chaotic
systems occupy the same space at the same time ( anti-Pauli
exclusion principle ). This property, so stated, satisfies
Gödel's metric for a rotating Universe. The "same time" becomes
an Abstract Time Machine thus allowing a space-time regression
(+ or -). The space (Place) becomes, in a natural way, the
quantum information (Program) of the Abstract Time Machine.
Thus, the orthodox clock becomes the property of the same
space-time and operates as a localized nano-computer: An
Abstract Time Machine processing relevant information
(Quantum Information).
The best thing we can do with time is to understand it.
Anti matter traveling backward in time has been accepted in Science for a long time and it is shown in Feynman diagrams. Also sum over paths method includes an amplitude for backward time travel for particles.
Forward time travel is accepted for a high speed traveler under acceleration.
Many researchers don't believe in time travel. They don't seem to have a description of vacuum space and time suitable for projections into high speed travel.
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