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Originally Posted by Jinn
I don't believe we'll ever be able to travel "backwards" in time - I'm not convinced it's actually a continuum - I think the 'forward movement' of time is only an abstract concept created by humans to understand the progression of their lives.
As a matter of fact, consider any memory you have, an activity "you" participated in. If you consider the molecular structure of your body, very little of "you" was actually there. Most of your cells are not the same cells that were present during that memory.
Time is a measurement we use for categorizing history and laying our lives out in line, but time does not have an inherent directionality, if it exists at all.
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This is contradicted by relativity. Einstein demonstrated that there is no such thing as absolute time. If time is relative, then there is a continuum.
Rat brings up a very good point, but at the same time you don't want a bad explanation of time travel to distract the reader from the story you're trying to tell. Did anyone see the "A Sound of Thunder" movie? Christ...