Time travel doesn't exist because time travel wiped out the timelines where it did

[The Firebird]

And we can't really posit a reasonable world in which a technology as complex and likely power-hungry as time travel 9even if it is just information) could be hidden or secret.

Can't we?

 

[Reynard]

Can't we?

How would that be accomplished?

 

[Umbran]

It is like knowing the lottery numbers: the more people that know, the less you win. And we can't really posit a reasonable world in which a technology as complex and likely power-hungry as time travel 9even if it is just information) could be hidden or secret.

Well, that's the thing, isn't it? Since we don't know how to do it, we first have to posit how complex and power-hungry it is.

So, you are rejecting a posit, based on another posit. Not exactly the most stable of bases for an argument.

 

[Reynard]

Well, that's the thing, isn't it? Since we don't know how to do it, we first have to posit how complex and power-hungry it is.

So, you are rejecting a posit, based on another posit. Not exactly the most stable of bases for an argument.

Everything we know about how time travel might possibly work requires huge amounts of energy at the very least. That is a thing that is true.

If we assume a fantastical easy time travel, then sure. But then no amount of any discussion means anything, because time travel and paradox can work however we want.

 

[The Firebird]

Everything we know about how time travel might possibly work requires huge amounts of energy at the very least. That is a thing that is true.

If we assume a fantastical easy time travel, then sure. But then no amount of any discussion means anything, because time travel and paradox can work however we want.

So do many industrial processes. Data centers now are getting a lot of attention. Back in the Manhattan project, Oak Ridge drew about 1% of the entire US grid.

After successful research, you typically want to tell everyone you have nuclear weapons. That might not be the case with time travel, and not just for the investment purposes.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Fortunately for the continuum, there really isn't much capitalist value in developing time travel. Who is going to profit from fractured timelines?

Can you bring back resources from other timelines? Can you pollute in other timelines and bring back the good produced?

 

[Clint_L]

This is my favourite sentence from the article: "In a new study, Andrew Jackson—a research associate from the School of Informatics—explores reasons beyond the scientific or technological as to why time travel appears to be impossible (at least, in this reality)."

So...not science. Not really math, either. Kind of just half-assed metaphysics. Is that what "informatics" is?

 

[Corinnguard]

Can you bring back resources from other timelines? Can you pollute in other timelines and bring back the good produced?

If you mean other timelines as in alternate timelines, the answer for both questions would probably be a yes if your setting was like the one in the G.O.D. Inc series by Chalker Jack.

 

[aco175]

This is my favourite sentence from the article: "In a new study, Andrew Jackson—a research associate from the School of Informatics—explores reasons beyond the scientific or technological as to why time travel appears to be impossible (at least, in this reality)."

So...not science. Not really math, either. Kind of just half-assed metaphysics. Is that what "informatics" is?

I'm still wondering what Andrew Jackson is doing in there. Why would you travel back and be the 7th President and not clean up the part about burning Georgia and being hated.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Why would you travel back and be the 7th President and not clean up the part about burning Georgia and being hated.

It is impossible to answer this seriously without violating ENWorld's no politics rules, but I think we can look around our world and see a lot of people who are happy to be hated.