From: rick_s on
With everything moving all the time around the sun/galaxy etc, its
difficult to have a coordinate system, that would allow you to plot a
course through time, into the past.

If you were to go into the past without actually reversing the flow of
time of the universe, (it's expanding now and contracting if going back
in time) and reversing the courses of the planets, stars and galaxies,
then where would you end up if you stayed at xyz and went into minus t?

Where would you be? Probably in space without a spaceship.

One of the thousand ways to die.

We seriously need to do some real pretending magic, if we are ever going
to crack this whole business of time travel.

So maybe instantaneous type of time travel is only good for short hops,
still, you are asking to hit a tree for sure.

But if you just sat there in cryogenic suspension you could go forward
in time like Buck Rogers who inhales some secret military fumes and goes
into a coma and wakes up in the 25th century.

But no need to worry about things moving leaving you stranded in space,
since you rode the whole way there.

Going back then, you might need to do the same thing.

Lets suppose you went into a type of cryogenic suspension and then crept
back in time slowly, so as to not lose your bearings or lose gravity.

You disappear from society, you enter a cave with your machine, and you
begin to wind the clock backwards. You are getting younger now, now
you're five and crying, hold on, this isn't working. It might work for
makeovers though, so we shouldn't rule out that possibility although it
seems like maybe by the time it was developed we would already have
rejuvenation by writing DNA code.

So we need some real serious magic here. We need Anunnaki magic.

If we want to turn the universe back in time, we would have to have the
clearance to do that and then reset the universal mainframe to a restore
point. Give em all Deja vu, we're taking another kick at the cat.

Except the chances we could get clearance for that to go back and
pretend we were pirates in the past, is probably pretty slim.

So then what's our other options?

Well we could send our consciousness record through the local machine,
to the galactic mainframe, exit the program and reenter at a specific
point on a timeline. You need to have some good connections to do that.
That is the kind of thing that maybe gets done _to you, for the good of
the many.

That's where they usually show a lab, a few scientists in lab coats, an
attractive assistant, and um, you, who are about to have your atoms
descrabbled, and then your information sent to another place and time.
The stuff "The Outer Limits" is made of. In you go into the
reincarnavore remember your training.

We try to gather and keep a historical record so that we can at least
pretend we are going into the past by visiting theme parks like Heritage
Park in Calgary Alberta. And its a great experience for anyone who likes
the idea of time travel. But its not really immersive, although it could be.

The only thing is that there are things today that we would find not
acceptable in terms of behavior in the past and so a modern park would
not be able to provide that experience. Do we need to do without
aspirin? Do we need to be bled for every ailment? What happens if our
skin is black?

We really don't want the bad things of time travel, what we really want
when you consider the thing is a nice safe comfortable experience.
Not the thrill seekers on a suicide mission to hunt dinosaurs with a spear.

We don't want smallpox, the plague, good lord can you even imagine how
bad old London smelled before it burned? Open sewers and all those
people living in squalor, and filth and stench then the coal years?

If all we want is information then we should find a way to decode the
signals from the past, by finding a way to receive those signals.
What's the frequency Kenneth? Is it ultra ultra high or ultra low or a
heat signature? But again, everything is moving. Does that matter when
the atoms are the same atoms, and the earth is a closed system due to
gravity. If you were looking for distant rebounded signals, then we are
somewhere else as is our solar system but again who knows what we will
be able to do in the far future with telescopes.

I like the story that the Vatican had a kind of mirror that you could
use to look back in time. In the painting the Glorification of the
Eucharist, there is a mirror like that as a monitor, on that galactic
mainframe.That's not the kind of time travel we want, reincarnation
through the galactic mainframe. But at least maybe you could check out
the timeline prior to see if its safe. Or somewhat safe since it will
change when you go through.

When you do it that way, you can look along your journey for time
markers and if you know what to look for you might find them, and then,
you might come to realize hey, you must be a time traveler.

But that's not like time shifting with a backpack and a first aid kit
and TP. Lets build better theme parks.