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i was sitting on my epiphany toilet and it hit me that time travel isn't possible for two reasons.
the first reason being that if i traveled back ten minutes to stop myself from writing this because you guys flamed me (in the future), then i would not have been flamed, hence i wouldn't have gone back in time to prevent it from happening. it would contradict itself, so it isn't possible.

(chronokinesis(?) as in control of time, not the perception)

the second reason is more for like... chronokinesis(?) stopping time. you see, if someone were to theoretically just stop time, they would be inside of nothingness, like outside reality. it would be like trying to fit an atom inside of another atom. well, better example...... ok, it would be like attempting to fit two quarters inside the space one quarter would normally take up.

make sense? opinions?

idk i didn't think about that. i had like a fixed situation in my head when i thought of this whole thing (thanks for the word, btw i couldn't think of it D: )
i should elaborate, in the second part i meant the quarters to represent the moment in time that you froze.

Time travel by itself is impossible... the past is but a moment of reality that doesn't exist anymore.. and going into the future is going into a moment of reality that doesn't exist yet.

Both ways lead to nothingess since only the present exist.

also stopping time is probably impossible.. but slowing it or fastering it is possible. Slowing it is to maker yourself body, mind and soul, faster than the rest and so your comprension of time is quicker which make everything around you look slower. The opposite also work.. making yourself body, mind and soul slower to make things around you look to be going faster.

It all depends on what model of time you're using. If you consider time to be singular stream moving in one direction then it seems that time travel is highly unlikely.

If time is actually a flow of infinite possibilities branching infinitely from infinite choices then one could jump from one "thread" to another, but that probably wouldn't alter the thread that you jumped from.

We simply just don't know enough about how time works.

I think the thorey was that if you went at the speed of light fo so long, if u looked back at the earth with a telescope the time taken for the light to get back would make it look ages ahed i think.. could be wrong i herd that like last year or so

I can only speculate as to special relativities effects in extended experimentation, or extreme experimentation. Though, assuming we could develope a way to potentially travel at the speed of light, and possibly live longer (in one respect or another), I would think that positive is more then outweighed by the negative possibility of bursting into flames if inside an atmosphere, or you know, becoming liquified.

Though thats just my seven million dollars worth of interest on two cents thanks to light-speed travel.

A few misunderstandings need to be cleared up.

The primary being that time travel is not (currently) possible due to the laws of thermodynamics. The only way to travel backward in time would be to bring a net-order to the universe. In all events (order-bringing or not) the universe is breaking down and becoming more random. Even if you clean up your room and mow the lawn, the universe will still become more chaotic as a result.

If you could somehow cause something to happen that would bring more order than chaos to the universe, you would then have travelled "back" in time. Time is a man-made convention used to understand the "rate" ( a time-based concept) of change or entropy in the universe.

The second (just for kicks), time may not even exist.

EDIT - all forward travelling is in speculation, and the only way to "stop" time would be to exist on an impossibly small scale (for humans).

Surely you can only use one sense to hear them?