You've gotta be shitting me?
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I'm a bit of a Science buff and have been following this for a few years in New Scientist and the Journal of Progressive World Sciences. The biggest stumbling block between our species and time travel is our need to grasp at metaphors when undertsanding soemthing. When we can't grasp a suitable metaphor, we tend to stare in disbelief and dismiss something. With time travel, we hope to satisfy our cynicism by likening time travel to a loop of paper ( as a timeline), and we hope to answer questions about how time travel works by taking that loop of paper and 'touching' two different times together and imagining ourself toddling across the bridge between these two points.
For that reason we also entertain the notion that if time travel were ever to exist, then it would be here now. Its a logical point of view for the metaphorical mind, but the pointed end of advance metaphysical study says that this is naive.
When the LHC collider is finally cranked up the world is likely to change more rapidly than at any point in time so far. The possibilities are endless and time travel is absolutely one of the possibilities that may grow out of it. Just as likely is that the collission causes a black hole that engulfs the entire planet immediately.
I wrote this in 2248 you know.