Why havent we learned the secret to time travel?

Question

i heard that the key to time travel is to basically, on a graph, have the function make a circle. i know that is impossible but it actually sounded feasible.

Answer 1

We haven't learned it because we aren't supposed to.  Figuring out how to time travel would totally and completely ruin life as we know it.. and personally, I like life now being predictable as it is.

Answer 2

I'm amazed by the number of bad/flippant answers you've gotten so far... at any rate, the main reason is that we can't bend spacetime as easily as we can manipulate a function on a graph.  Need to bend the function into a circle?  Sounds great, in theory.  In practice, a number of theories predict that it would take ridiculous amounts of energy to accomplish such a thing (think black hole-scale), and a number of other theories predict that the very laws of physics prevent such extreme bending.  In short, your point is a good one, but it's a bit like going back to Victorian England and telling the scientists that they could get to Mars just by making one of their cannons bigger and housing a human in the cannonball.

Answer 3

Well you know the millitary uses technology ruffly 15 years more advanced then what us citizens have available....

Answer 4

actually scientists discover that if they had an infinitly long pole wrapped in copper wire spinning, it would create enough energy to cause a rift in the time stream although there would be no way to control it.  there is a conspiracy that einstein was working with the US government to create a teleportation device (which in a sense would be a form of time travel).  there is evidence that government successfully transported an entire naval ship.

Answer 5

It is not that we haven't learned the secret to time travel, but rather the common people aren't aware of it.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Well, by definition, a circle CANNOT be a function, since a circle fails both the vertical and horizontal line test.

Answer 8

Don't wait for scientist to invent it. Go figure it out!

Answer 9

Time is relative and is not necessarily someting that can be manipulated

Answer 10

Time travel is theoretically possible

Answer 11

We already have time travel.