There really are no mistakes to come back and fix. Everything that happens makes the future what it is. Without horrible things, such as the Holocaust, our world would be nothing like it is today.That's why they don't come back and help.

I have a theory that I believe proves it is impossible to travel backward in time. The theory is based purely in practicality and requires no mathematical or physical calculation whatsoever (although I throw a bit of bullshit math in for good measure).

It should be noted that I have no understanding of formal time travel theory or even basic physics so this is surely full of holes. Still, it has been fun to ponder and so I feel an urge to record it here.

If you've heard of this particular theory, please let me know as I've done some research (okay, only a little googling) and have come up with nothing.

If at any point in the future1, a method for backward time travel becomes possible, all points in time (both past and future points) will immediately have evidence of backward time travel. In other words, we would know backward time travel is possible today if it is ever discovered in the future.

Let us call the point in time when backward time travel is first exercised, the fulcrum point. It is easy to explain how all points in time occurring after the fulcrum point will have evidence of backward time travel, as we now have evidence of everything that has occurred in the past. But how would all points in the past (including this point right here) have evidence of backward time travel if it happens after that point? Simple - people are stupid and greedy.

I propose that if backward time travel ever becomes possible, it would eventually become available to the wrong kind of people2. This would create a race for the past.

In order to capitalize on backward time travel, one would have to travel to a time where no one believed backward time travel was possible. There they could use their knowledge of the future as a competitive advantage.

Given an infinite number of time and an infinite number of stupid and greedy people, one will eventually get caught, exposing backward time travel to that point in time and all future points in time. The result of this is that the fulcrum point moves backward in time as people get caught.

The consequences of a single fulcrum move is two fold:

INF-1 people are now looking further backward in time for the next point where backward time travel is not yet known. The -1 assumes that the dumb-ass who got caught was fried or put in jail for life or otherwise removed from the infinite pool of people capable of traveling backward in time.


n new people now have knowledge of backward time travel. Where n is the number of people who exist between the new fulcrum point and the old fulcrum point but not after the old fulcrum point. These people join the race for the past.


The net result is INF+n-1 people jumping backward in time looking for the next point at which an opportunity awaits to screw people over.

This cycle continues for a long time3, the fulcrum point moves further and further backward until the space-time plane balancing on the fulcrum falls down and all time has the exact same knowledge of backward time travel (and possibly the exact same knowledge of everything).

We can therefore assume that backward travel will never be discovered as we have no evidence for backward time travel today.

Well time travel is possible but the technology to do so is thousands of years more advanced. But there are just too many time travel paradoxes, and if we when back in time and say, killed Hitler it would alter the future dramatically. It wouldn't just stop WWII it would change the world completely.

Look up "Operation Pegasus" apparently a group of people had time traveled and they told George Washington during the revolution that they were going to win the war and that he would become the first president of the United States.
Andrew Basaigo was one of the Time Travelers and claimed that Obama was also their and that he was the boy in the famous picture of the Gettysburg Address and when compared to his childhood picture, they look the same.

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What i think :

If there was to be a time machine why haven't they came back to the past to fix bad problems which have occurred before.


That might just be the problem though if you change something in the past from the future it could have a huge effect for e.g if you were to stop the first person to build a auto mobile in the past , then if you went back to the future what would happen? that's what they may be worried about of what the consequences are they might be trying to leave it all natural.

We must not mess with the nature of Time!!

Please share your opinions too , you may not understand but everyone has there own way of thinking

Your post made me think of it like if they made time travel why haven't we seen anything change or something like that well if you look at it from the perspective of doctor who this is how that works

trev57 wrote There really are no mistakes to come back and fix. Everything that happens makes the future what it is. Without horrible things, such as the Holocaust, our world would be nothing like it is today.That's why they don't come back and help.

Are you saying that the world is a better place because the Holocaust happened?

pooky177 wrote

trev57 wrote There really are no mistakes to come back and fix. Everything that happens makes the future what it is. Without horrible things, such as the Holocaust, our world would be nothing like it is today.That's why they don't come back and help.

Are you saying that the world is a better place because the Holocaust happened?

No? I don't know where you would get that. I'm saying that the Holocaust altered history in so many ways, without it everything would be different. I don't know if the world would be better or worse but it would surly be different.

i think time travel can only go forward because we can only build our machines to go so fast (faster than light). unless we were making a hole in the universe we will probably mess everything up and create the next big bang for other civilizations?...

I dont see how time travel would be possible?
Everything is built with atoms and as we die and rutten in grace out atoms Will move on and build something Else.

How do we get atoms traveling time?
I mean everything on this planet= atoms/materia.

And if we would be able to time travel something would go to waste or Someone has to die. Getting My point?

You die = your energy moves on.