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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6038110" data-attributes="member: 8835">One thing to ponder is the concept that Time does not exist as a discernable place to travel to.Let's ignore the whole physics thing for a second (like traveling really fast slows time down).At its core, the concept of time is acknowledging the sequence of events.  I sat down beneath a tree.  Then I ate a sandwich under the tree that I sat down under.  After the sandwich was gone, I pondered deep thoughts under neath the tree that I was still sitting under.  Then an apple from the tree fell down on my head as I sat under the tree with a full belly from the sandwich that I ate.While we remember these events as if they were places we could revisit, they are simply sequences of events AT physical places.  time inherently moves forward because we observe the world and see things happen in sequence.It is not probable that an intelligent life form exists that observes all reality and time before events happen.  This Omniscient being is unlikely to know an apple is going to fall on my head in 4.5 billion years and thus get the idea for Newton's laws of physics by knowing something WILL happen, but hasn't happened yet.  By "knowing" all things out of order, it literally can't move from one idea to the next because it quite literally must have all ideas at once by nature of being defined as "not experiencing time" or seeing all events at once.Anything that observes or interacts with the world sequentially is bound to time, not as a place, but simply as the mechanic that events happen in sequence.Now physicists can step in and mention that Time is wierder than I ascribe.  Given that we can launch a ship at near light speed and when it gets back, the clock on it will read that less time passed inside the ship, than we all experienced.Though time itself didn't re-order anything.  It simply slowed down for those inside the ship.  And that's not the same as time existing as a place that one can travel backwards to.</blockquote>

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