Carl Sagan in an interview with Nova on Time Travel discusses time travel and
why we can or cannot time travel, yet.
Perhaps future time travelers can only go back to the time when the time
travel machine is invented but no further.
It doesn’t mean that it can’t happen, just not yet. He also indicates
that perhaps the cost is too great to go too far back into the past, but I don’t
think that argument holds water. If we have people who can buy a trip to the
space station, time travel is not cost prohibitive. Nova also asks Sagan about
the Grandfather Paradox, where if you can go back in time, and kill your
grandfather before he sires one of your parents, do you exist? If your grandfather is dead, how did you get
into the future to go back and kill him?
Sagan does not believe this is possible, hence the paradox, but could
you not meet your ancestors and affect how they live their lives for better or
worse which in turn will affect how the offspring turn out, in essence, you. We
do travel in time, every year, every month, every day, every minute and every
second we are moving into the future. I
find the concept of time travel to be intriguing.
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