Future-Time Travel
For example, predict the Lotto numbers and seal it unseen in a safe box and open the safe only after the draw. If the prediction was correct it could be seen as evidence, there would be a variety of such kind of experiments.
It might in fact be possible to confirm the existence of time travel experimentally.
If a psychic like Yuri Geller is tested with scientific experiments and he fails, does it really mean he is not psychic? The reasoning is a bit sophisticated.
It does not mean he isn't, I would say yes perhaps he could actually still be, although I feel it does mean he doesn't have voluntary control. He could be acting as the instrument of something else, as an intermediary.
If he was a fraud certainly he would not consent to scientific experimentation would he, so that actually rather the fact he does give consent proved he is very confident of his predictions, but certainly he is not psychotic, that leaves only the possibility as that indeed, he must be a psychic!
However the predictions might still not be “foolproof”. So that I feel it might be possible to prove “future viewing” exists but not to disprove.
Related to Schrödinger's ideas as purely speculation but perhaps magic tricks such as of David Copperfield could be explained in this kind of way.
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As considering now a concept of Future-Time Travel, due to Time Travel Paradox we all know time travel is inherently impossible since it inevitably it leads to contradictions, such as going back into time and assassinating yourself or your mother or father. Did, or do you exist? It would be unexplainable and an impossible situation.
But now here you travelled to the past first, and from there “the long way” back home to the present time. You cannot argue with this. It is logically impossible.
But what if you did it the other way around? Travel first to the Future, then back to this, the Present moment?
You know I don't believe you can get that kind of contradiction, in fact I believe there exists no paradox in it at all. In fact even Einstein's theories and supporting evidence in modern experimental physics can allow for it and scientifically actually account for proof of its existence, meant as of travelling to the future.
Even more, such time travel might allow for the possibility of prophecy, as even scientific divination, the actual foretelling, and indeed predicting the future as not being impossible either.
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Informally thus discussing this one might conclude that the same problems would hold for time travel both ways, and the connection between going forward with someone there in the first place already there but coming back.
However as far as Logic goes, on the difficulty with contradictions I had indeed not wanted to discuss the concept nor the actual possibility, I was merely and only considering the concept of possible paradox nothing more nor less. As for travelling to the future and then returning, sorry it is certainly not the same as your “classic” situation.
These two types are not the same. If you feel they are in fact the same, or so similar, perhaps one could show with providing some particular clear example of your own for a contradiction in my “Future-Time” scenario? That would certainly go a far way clearing things up.
Thus I believe “Time Travel” might be possible if you travel to the Future (and back to the Present)?
But now there are even more possibilities. There might be a window, as vision or knowledge of the future (perhaps the past as well in this case) but without having any influence at all, based just on observation. Without actual physical travel at all and no proof.
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Assuming the existence of the Supreme Being as All-Knowing and All-Powerful anything is possible, if God is defined in this way it goes without saying.
The Reality of the Present depends on existence of a beginning, the Creation or a Big Bang at time equal to Zero, and once more it also comes down to the question of the property of Determinism.
Obviously this all is not really practical and inherently is a matter of theory and “philosophy” or “theology”. I have attempted to consider different vantage points in my stories, as practical, scientific, mathematical and purely philosophical. The other discussions on time travel is in my set “Paradoxes of Time Travel”.
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