Future-Time Travel

By Tom Brown

Sat, 10 Jan 2026
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We all know time travel is inherently impossible since it inevitably it leads to contradiction, 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.

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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 will get that kind of contradiction, in fact I believe there exists no paradox at all.

In fact Einstein's theories and supporting evidence in modern experimental physics can allow for it and scientifically actually account for proof of its existence.

Even more, such time travel might allow for the possibility of prophecy, as even scientific divination, the actually foretelling, and indeed predicting the future as not being impossible either.

Once more it comes down to the question of the property of determinism.

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Paradoxes of Time Travel
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Comments

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

We've been discussing this and conclude that the same problems would be for time travel both ways, and the connection between going forward with someone there coming back! 

I feel that there is a deeper problem with the concept being possible, too. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Tom Brown on

I had indeed not want to discuss the concept nor the actual possibily Rhiannon, I was merely and only considering the concept of possible contradiction nothing more nor less. As for traveling to the future and then returning, sorry it is certainly not the same as your "classic" situation.

If you feel they are in fact the same, perhaps you could show with providing some particular clear example of your own for a contradiction in my "Future-Time" scenario? That would clear things up.

I feel my ideas should be clear enough. Obviously this is not practical at all and is only a matter of theory and "philosophy".

Keep well, all the best! Tom