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Re: Physicist believes we will travel through time this century

The "What is Time?" thread awhile back has several arguments, including mine on what time is and is not, which precludes "time travel."

I request from any/all "believers" in "time travel" to get serious about "what it is" in the ontological sense. Is it "real" in the sense of being reversable or "fast forward-able.?" (Not *really!*)

If the future has not yet happened and the past has already happened, then neither is presently real ...and since "it is always now" (everywhere) one can not "visit" events which have not yet happened (except in imagination) or are already over (except in memory and historical records of all sorts.)

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