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[AGThePoet]

he way I have seen it (and correct me if I am wrong here) is that all time has ever been to humans is a way to know when something has or will occur. The year was created to have a measurement of the length of the 4 seasons combined, the four seasons were not created sso as to fit the human's thought of measurement. Gravity controls this cycle (and lots of other stuff, but you get my point). If the caveman had never said "I'll see you next moon," then perhaps the human race would have no concept of time. The notion was inevitable however and somone was bound to think of it.
The beginning traces of "time" in our history were not human-made terms like "month" and "year" and "second." They were refrences to natural cycles in nature. So "time" was never anything until the cavemen decided to start paying attention to it. It is a neccesity in our culture to be able to know when excactly something will happen, but off the realiztion that time could be measured came the thought that it could be traveled on- backwards. This is utterly false. Someday we may find a way to travel into the future; however, you cannot travel to the past so if anyone went from 2003 to 2300 he would be stuck there because he cannot travel to the past that 2003 would be at that time. So time travel may have very little reason to happen at all considering that when 2003 finally caught up with him they would already know more than him. The only reason I could think of with this scenerio is if you could travel anywhere in the 3 spatial dimensions while traveling through time to the future, you could travel 1 second into the future and pop out anyplace in the universe. Also, instead of cryostasis you could simply send them to land in your labratory in 50 years when they have a cure for the rich dudes disease. Just some stuff to think about.