Authors: Scott Strozier
Abstract: It is arguably the most popular trope of the science fiction genre, yet over the past couple of decades it has found its way into mainstream science. The concept of time travel, specifically the ability to escape the linear path of time and return to a moment which has already occurred or to preemptively journey to a point in time that has yet to come to pass. The justification of the practical means of this theory come from Eistein’s theories and his well-known statement” Time is relative.” However, a closer examination of Einstein’s theories and the notion of time in relation to the multitude of natural forces acting upon the physical world highlight a misinterpretation of behavior of the property known as time. This paper seeks to mathematically and logically showcase these misconceptions and present an alternative understanding of the functions of time and the impossibility of time travel.
