We Time-Travel all the time. No joke. Allow me to explain.
The theoretical plausibility of Time Travel was developed in 1905 by Albert Einstein. Since 1905, the compaction or expansion of Time has been factually verified in three or four ways. Perhaps the most compelling of those experimental observations took place in 1971 when cesium-beam atomic clocks were flown, in separate planes, either with or against Earth’s rotation and compared to atomic clocks left on the surface. In this experiment, eastward-moving clocks “lost” 59 nanoseconds, and westward-moving clocks “gained” 273 nanoseconds. These experiments also showed that altitude, because of the increased or decreased effects of gravity, contributed a factor to the way Time flows.
We’re moving thru space, and fast! Every time we move, either in support or opposition to our forward momentum, we are altering the flow of Time, Time Dilation! However, in order to make the effects of Time Dilation noticeable, we would have to accelerate a lot!
Add to this the fact of Quantum Entanglement, which proves that at the quantum level a connection between objects remains no matter the intervening distance, and a theoretical framework for more robust Time Travel begins to taunt us from our very near futures.
Skeptics beware! You may laugh, but we do not know what we do not know. However, I believe we are very close to answering some of these questions. A lot of very smart and well-funded scientists are working on them every day.
If we shot away in a rocket today, we would leapfrog into a future relative to the time we left behind. We would enhance the effect we have every time we drive a race car around a track. Acceleration is Time Travel. Time Travel “into the future” is only dependent on our rate of speed. If we flew far at the fastest speed attainable and circled back, we would find that our friends had aged more than we had. Unless proven otherwise, we would find ourselves still in this same universe, only later on!
Keep in mind that Einstein predicted that we can never exceed the speed of light, but that rule might change. We’ve never actually tried it!
If we want to go back in Time, it would not be as simple as going very fast in the opposite direction. Time’s directionality is not as simple as that. To travel into the “past,” we would have to slow ourselves way, way down. There is no known negation of speed, but if we could slow ourselves enough, our current Time Frame would leave us far behind. This theoretical scenario does not imply that we could in any way visit our dead ancestors when they were still alive. Nor could we go back and kill Hitler. But if we could “circle back,” we would find ourselves much older than our friends.
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