Time Travel Into the Past Might Be Possible (Not Requiring the Help of God)

"The government? Limit successfully? I don't think so. Also, something has to mess up eventually, so eventually each year, one person would go to, let's say, 1776. After a million years, that would be a million extra people in the world. It would not be hidden." The government could quite easily limit successfully. When a person goes back in time when they aren't supposed to, the government could go back to before they went back in time, and arrest them. Also, what if the people then left after their year was up? "Ultra-major counter: If someone went back in time, it would instantly kill everything. If he was there, something would change something, altering the future, so that he didn't come back in the same conditions, if at all, rupturing the time-space continuum thing. It is impossible beyond how I can describe it." How do you know that this would be instantaneous? Also, how do you know that it would kill everything? The time-space continuum doesn't have to rupture; it could just ripple. This would allow time to fix everything. "It is impossible to change matter into energy in any way." And how do you know that? I'm going to allow for the possibility of matter being converted into energy; if you have no proof, then we can assume that it might be true, which is all I need to win this debate. "It would not be stored. Time moves continuously. It does not go back. It does not physically exist. It is change. It is how objects are given the opportunity to move. It can not be reversed." This sounds like a whole lot of claims without a whole lot of backing it up. Time is a dimension. http://www.ascentaspirations.ca... At least, it is debatable whether it is a dimension or not. This allows for the possibility of time being a dimension, which allows for the possibility of time travel backwards being possible. "They didn't have dictionaries back then. Also, time is what we define it as, by definition. Seems obvious, doesn't it? This debate is about time travel. This is time. If it is not traveled through, then time is not traveled through." Oh, they had dictionaries. http://encarta.msn.com... Time is not what we define it as. If everything were whatever we defined it as, then the Sun used to be a big shining disk in the sky. We know that that is now true. Definitions can be worthless at times. This is one of those times. We are arguing about what time is. Thus, definitions are thrown out the window. "And debates mean that much too your opinion? 'Breathing is good for you' is obvious, but the debate was still lost. Does that mean breathing is not good for you? No, it does not." Well, you still haven't proven your point. The debate just proved that it was debatable, so we can allow for the possibilities of everything, yada-yada... thus, we can allow for the possibility of time travel. "Yes, I do. I have something called common sense." That doesn't prove anything. common sense - sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts http://www.merriam-webster.com... Sure, the theory seems ridiculous, but you haven't proven it to be impossible. "Definitions define this debate. By definition." No, they don't. If I say that the Earth is a flat plane that we live on, the Earth is still spherical. "But there is nowhere to store this up-to-infinite amount." Except in the fourth dimension. There is nowhere to store the up-to-infinite space that exists. Except in the first three dimensions. "You are talking about going through time faster than time can. That is impossible." And why is that? Explain, mongoose. EXPLAIN. "In conclusion, time travel backwards is impossible, and it is so because there is no way it could happen." In conclusion, you have yet to prove that all of the theories that I have listed cannot occur, and even then, you haven't disproved the possibility of time travel backwards in general, so therefore, time travel into the past just might be possible. "Gracias." De nada.