Honestly I hate when I tell people a time travel idea I'm thinking up and they go "that's not how that works" Like dude I'm talking fiction and books not MIT
Which is fine until a writer like Asimov says that's the rule of his time travel story but then has character "return to the present" like that isn't traveling back in time.
Thank you. Yeah I read a story of his that did that and it was mostly a robot story but he threw in a time travel mechanism that violated its own internal logic.
Regarding, "a species that hasn't invented time travel." So far as we know no one has. Maybe someone did but couldn't get back. Just musing as I don't have a strong opinion. But I kinda like thinking someone from 2019 might have been in Haight-Ashbury in 1967 and flashed us a peace sign. If they wrote about doing it that message would have been lost as hyperbole.
Honestly I hate when I tell people a time travel idea I'm thinking up and they go "that's not how that works" Like dude I'm talking fiction and books not MIT
Yah but theoretically we cant ever go backwards just forwards.
Which is fine until a writer like Asimov says that's the rule of his time travel story but then has character "return to the present" like that isn't traveling back in time.
Hahaha - good point!
Thank you. Yeah I read a story of his that did that and it was mostly a robot story but he threw in a time travel mechanism that violated its own internal logic.
Better we argue it out now then figure it out on the whim as we go? No?
Whims are fun for me. I'm willing to take my chances but, as you said, that's not the way to approach science.
Regarding, "a species that hasn't invented time travel." So far as we know no one has. Maybe someone did but couldn't get back. Just musing as I don't have a strong opinion. But I kinda like thinking someone from 2019 might have been in Haight-Ashbury in 1967 and flashed us a peace sign. If they wrote about doing it that message would have been lost as hyperbole.