The Pseudoscience of Time Travel
History and Philosophy of Physics
2022-10-12 v1
Abstract
Because closed timelike curves are consistent with general relativity, many have asserted that time travel into the past is physically possible if not technologically infeasible. However, the possibility of time travel into the past rests on the unstated and false assumption that zero change to the past implies zero change to the present. I show that this assumption is logically inconsistent; as such, it renders time travel into the past both unscientific and pseudoscientific.
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@article{arxiv.2210.05386,
title = {The Pseudoscience of Time Travel},
author = {Andrew Knight},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.05386},
year = {2022}
}