LogFAQs > #943749568

Time is actually an illusion and even the idea of string theory etc, still uses that illusion.

In reality time does not exist, and everything progresses in a logical order that can be pre-determined with enough information. In addition, you could use the same information to determine events in the past by reversing the order.

A time machine that does either of those things, logically moving forwards or backwards along a logical path, could also use the same logic to move through space to ensure that you were located where you wanted to be along that logical stream.

In addition, the idea of multiverses work very well with this time theory, as each possibility creates a new and different stream, so you could move forwards or backwards along logical streams but determine the direction of the logic (basically changing the equation) along the way.

This can allow you to easily travel not only through time, but through possibilities, allowing you to move into a universe where our sun is actually purple for instance, or into a different universe where JFK was not assassinated in the past, or even in a universe where your best friend is female instead of male (although if that universe didn't also not have you existing at all in it, you would probably not be happy with the result lol).

I firmly believe everything can be determined by mathmatics and enough information, and in theory with that information and enough power (ability to change things), you could indeed reverse time or move forward through it, basically hitting fast forward or rewind on a predetermined path that we are all taking.

The even more interesting thing is such time travel would ALSO be pre-determined and any changes you make would also be part of the normal progression, as the OVER ALL universe moves forward even though from your perspective it has actually gone back in time (it didn't, you just reset it's state).

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