Can we go beyond time?

According to NASA, time travel is possible, just not in the way you might expect. Albert Einstein's theory of relativity says time and motion are relative to each other, and nothing can go faster than the speed of light, which is 186,000 miles per second. Time travel happens through what's called “time dilation.”
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Is it possible to go beyond time?

Time travel to the past is theoretically possible in certain general relativity spacetime geometries that permit traveling faster than the speed of light, such as cosmic strings, traversable wormholes, and Alcubierre drives.
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Is there a place beyond time?

Unlike tropes where travel between two worlds has a fixed time relationship like passing faster on one side or even when the relationship is loose, vague but still exists, the Place Beyond Time is, as the name would suggest, a place that is defined by the fact that it has no internal sense of time nor a sense of when ...
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Does the past still exist?

In short, space-time would contain the entire history of reality, with each past, present or future event occupying a clearly determined place in it, from the very beginning and for ever. The past would therefore still exist, just as the future already exists, but somewhere other than where we are now present.
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Why time travel is not possible?

The simplest answer is that time travel cannot be possible because if it was, we would already be doing it. One can argue that it is forbidden by the laws of physics, like the second law of thermodynamics or relativity. There are also technical challenges: it might be possible but would involve vast amounts of energy.
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Has anyone ever time traveled?

Although many people are fascinated by the idea of changing the past or seeing the future before it's due, no person has ever demonstrated the kind of back-and-forth time travel seen in science fiction or proposed a method of sending a person through significant periods of time that wouldn't destroy them on the way.
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Can we go back in time?

The Short Answer: Although humans can't hop into a time machine and go back in time, we do know that clocks on airplanes and satellites travel at a different speed than those on Earth. We all travel in time!
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Is time just an illusion?

According to theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli, time is an illusion: our naive perception of its flow doesn't correspond to physical reality. Indeed, as Rovelli argues in The Order of Time, much more is illusory, including Isaac Newton's picture of a universally ticking clock.
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Can a person live in the past?

People who live in the past find it difficult to accept and embrace change. They are holding onto their well-established routines, familiar places, and the people they've known for ages. They simply don't want to grow and leave their comfort zones. They want things to remain the same.
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Can time stop forever?

In order for you to stop time, you would have to be traveling infinitely fast. Nothing can travel faster than light (let alone infinitely fast) without gaining infinite mass and energy, according to Einstein's theory of relativity.
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Do we have infinite time?

As a universe, a vast collection of animate and inanimate objects, time is infinite. Even if there was a beginning, and there might be a big bang end, it won't really be an end.
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How many dimensions exist?

The world as we know it has three dimensions of space—length, width and depth—and one dimension of time. But there's the mind-bending possibility that many more dimensions exist out there. According to string theory, one of the leading physics model of the last half century, the universe operates with 10 dimensions.
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Is there no way to go back in time?

Time travel is possible based on the laws of physics, according to researchers. But time-travelers wouldn't be able to alter the past in a measurable way, they say. And the future would essentially stay the same, according to the reseachers.
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How many dimensions do we live in?

In everyday life, we inhabit a space of three dimensions – a vast 'cupboard' with height, width and depth, well known for centuries. Less obviously, we can consider time as an additional, fourth dimension, as Einstein famously revealed.
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Does all time exist at once?

We should think of time the same way we think of space; just as all of space exists outside of our world and any point within space can be described by coordinates, all of time exists as well and any events that have happened or will happen already exist, described by their own coordinates within the universe.
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How do we know reality is real?

We experience the world through our senses. Even though it's often unreliable, subjective perception is a crucial source of data about the world. Indeed, it is the source of our data about the world. Even when we practice science, we are still obtaining data through our senses.
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How is life an illusion?

An individual life may seem more or less meaningful depending on how it is lived, but even the most meaningful lives will end and be forgotten. Jean-Paul Sartre said that the moment we realize we are not immortal, we see the meaning of life as an illusion.
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Is it possible to travel to the past?

Mainstream science dictates that time travel to the past is impossible.
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Do wormholes exist?

Wormholes are shortcuts in spacetime, popular with science fiction authors and movie directors. They've never been seen, but according to Einstein's general theory of relativity, they might exist.
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Is it possible to change the past?

Although philosophers typically agree that we cannot change the past, most think it possible to causally affect the past. What's the difference? Changing is altering a time from being one way, the first time around, to being some other way, the second time around (hence “the second time around fallacy”).
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Why can't we move back in time?

Going back in time is unmixing; it can't be done. The universe can't be 'unmixed'. What this means, ultimately, is that time only exists because the Big Bang created a universe that started out ordered. If the universe was disordered from the beginning, there would be nothing left to mix and time would not exist.
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Can we time travel to future?

The simplest answer is that time travel cannot be possible because if it was, we would already be doing it. One can argue that it is forbidden by the laws of physics, like the second law of thermodynamics or relativity. There are also technical challenges: it might be possible but would involve vast amounts of energy.
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Can we travel in future?

While it's not possible (yet) to travel to the future fast than the rate at which we're doing it now, it is possible to speed up the passage of time. But, it only happens in small increments of time. And, it has only happened (so far) to very few people who have traveled off Earth's surface.
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