I know this is a crazy question. I'm not a philosophical genius or a scientist so be gentle with me.

In order to go back in time, you have to destroy everything in the present time; including people.

Correct?

The reason why I asked is because of The Terminator. Technically, the future was destroyed and every thing in it. John Connor stated "the future is not set."

The same episodes regarding the future happened in X-men: The animated series.

Seems like whatever movie wins an academy award, is the agenda the super rich wants to accomplish. The Terminator II won 4 Oscars. Unfortunately, humans have no choice. Humans one by one are being replaced by computers. There are 7 billion people in the world. That's enough to fill up the entire state of Alabama. But yet sooo much land.


An ideal Utopia for the rich is all humans dead and are replaced by computers.

So in order to go back In time where there wasn't an abundance of humans, the present has to be destroyed.

I meant "going back in time" as my title. Smh

So many topics! So little time.

No one knows how to time travel so movies are just fiction. Science tends towards the "multiple Universe and timeline theories" so, if true, it would just mean that you changed one timeline if you went back.

There are too many people on the planet now. The "test" is how much damage they cause and what is their existence doing to the rest of the planet. Most of the edible fish in the ocean are gone. Some species are going extinct. You can get the following information from many sources:

Massive overfishing
The global fishing fleet is 2-3 times larger than what the oceans can sustainably support.

In other words, people are taking far more fish out of the ocean than can be replaced by those remaining.

As a result:

53% of the world’s fisheries are fully exploited, and 32% are overexploited, depleted, or recovering from depletion1

Most of the top ten marine fisheries, accounting for about 30% of all capture fisheries production, are fully exploited or overexploited1

Several important commercial fish populations have declined to the point where their survival is threatened

Unless the current situation improves, stocks of all species currently fished for food are predicted to collapse by 20482

Strangely, the view of the world in the movie Terminator is not that far from reality.

Well, no, you don't "have to destroy" the present, even in all the fictional accounts so far presented. Great story idea though, thanks. I might try to make that one into a short story.

You are probably getting confused by the way that most Time Travel stories talk about how "if I do x, then maybe everyone I ever knew and loved, will never have existed." The idea isn't that they are "destroyed," the idea is that if you make changes in the past, you are unlikely to be able to predict what ELSE will be changed because you did, and you might not recognize the present you return to, assuming you do return.

The terminator story wasn't that the future was a mess BECAUSE of time travel, quite the opposite. The idea there, was that people accidentally screwed up their own lives, by putting a mechanical monster (SkyNet) in charge of all the weaponry, and thus destroyed themselves. The Time Travel was part of the battles between the robots and the humans.

Basically, you just need to see or read more science fiction Time Travel related stories, to get more possibilities. Lots of fun for you from research!!

The only time traveling device without a paradox is a clock.

nice topic dear...
but I think its not possible to go in past or future....
and time is not that what we see on clock ....... so it not under our control ...

Well, technically, I time travel every night.

When I go to sleep, it's today. When I wake up, it's tomorrow. I moved FORWARD in time.

Lame? Sure. But you ride the skateboard you have, not the Rolls Royce you dream of.

Another fun time-travel related, common misunderstanding:

Because light travels very very fast, but not fast enough to be instant, you will occasionally read or hear someone talk about how we could see into the past, if we could travel instantly to the other end of a set of light rays which originated here however many light years away, we were able to leap to.

We would NOT be "looking backwards into the past," we would remain 100% in the present. We wouldn't see "the past," we would see the reflected light from something which happened in the past.

The purpose of such imaginings is to help us visualize reality a little better. Not to show us how to use time travel or time-vision.

Though, I do have an alternate idea for how to "travel" at near the speed of light. Hint: you do it by holding still.

If you go back in time, but do not do anything but watch it is ok I think, wish I could go back and never marry my ex!

Destroy everything in present time?????

Including pizza and my phone???....

As the average Japanese lifespan is 84
a good percentage has already traveled to over 100
and traveling...