Why we’ll never time travel.

Time travel is possible. Theoretically anyway. Or so I’ve read. The mathematics prove it. The theory of relativity says it so. Yet no one as of today has travelled any when. No one born before today, anyway. But what if time travel were actually possible, beyond theory. What if it was just a matter of attaining more computing power and using the right materials to build the time machine. Perhaps not today, or tomorrow, but let’s say within the next one to two hundred years it had become somewhat practical to do so. How could we prove for sure that someone had achieved it?

Everyone has their story of having met someone that they thought could have come from another time. I remember when I was younger working in a department store. a customer had asked me if we accepted cash. Another time, I received a spam email from a supposed time traveller who needed parts for his time machine. This one I was more inclined to believe was true since the traveller never asked for money, only ship parts that most probably still won’t exist until we build a time machine. Continue reading “Why we’ll never time travel.”