You would have to compensate for motion.
The entire Universe is constantly in motion.
Planets move. Their stars move. Their galaxies move.
In just one minute you have moved thousands of miles in space and don't even notice it.
So if you traveled in TIME, you would most likely end up immediately frozen in deep space with nothing much around you...................
“A physicist has APPARENTLY...”
Fixed.
I am your own Grandma! LOL.
Damn. So no do-overs of the many mistakes of my past?
Hey! A high minded science thought that I can actually grasp!
This is a good one!
No. Humans and every animate being and inanimate object are firmly embedded in the cause/effect sequence, and are incapable of leaving that mode of existence.
There is only being that stands outside of the cause/effect sequence, and that is God.
I wrote this paper 50 years from now. He stole it and came back to beat me to the punch.
Sure thing, now go sit down next to the jackass that thinks math is racist and two plus two is not really four.
I came up with math that shows me getting all A’s in school and I owe no taxes forever. And no paradox either. Cause the universe adjusts itself to be what I, in my infinite wisdom, know to be.
It seems to me that you might run into something (big) unexpectedly. The maps show where objects WERE, not where objects ARE, and the location of some of those objects are millions of light years out of date.
Time travel will never be invented, because someone would have come back to visit and that has never happened.
Go back and tell Eve to go on a diet.
Not true. An experiment was done and the result was proof that travel into the future is possible. It involved two clocks and a jet aircraft. I think we are all familiar with it.
Now...travel into the past? That is quite a bit more problematic.
Ever read "The Billiard Ball" by Isaac Asimov? A great short story that illustrates what you mentioned about space/time.
The reason you don't notice that you have moved thousands of miles is because you are observing the universe from your own inertial field. In fact, there is no point in the universe which one can say is static, except the place you are observing it from, or some other arbitrary point which you might choose. You might just as well say that you are not moving, while universe is moving around you, as to say you are moving through the universe.
I remember reading about that in the future..
Niven’s Law:
If the universe of discourse permits the possibility of time travel and of changing the past, then no time machine will be invented in that universe.
Simply, if time travel that could change the past was possible, then time travel would be invented and would keep changing the past until a universe came to be where time travel will not be invented. Therefore time travel, if possible, will not be invented our universe because the above would already have occurred.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
I knew that already.