Yes one day

I don't believe so, we don't have much on earth that would allow such a thing to happen

Time travel would probably more or less be parallel dimension type of travel. Rather than traveling in your own time. If it was realistically considered in this "reality" The help of quantum computers will allow us to reach the possibility alot faster than before having them lol Alot of really cool things are sure to happen within the lifetime of some boomers millennials and gen zs time frame of living (especially gen zs)

[i]I hope not. I've yet to see Human beings not -blam!- up something. And time travel in the hands of an idiot ( or a hate mongering fascist -blam!- ) is a recipe for disaster[/i].

Thanks to a Covid version of that time traveler meme, whenever somebody talks about time travel, my mind goes to how explorers/conquerors from various nations ending up killing more native folk by bringing diseases that the natives had no immunity to, rather than by their sword. I’m not sure if it would work like this.. but if time travel became possible, and somebody traveled back a hundred years or more, it’s possible that they could bring mutated diseases that may be harmless to the traveler.. but could hospitalize people or lead to accidental mass genocide because the people have no resistance. So if you were to go into the future as well, you could possibly capture a nasty disease yourself. And bring it back to equally vulnerable people. So not even considering that butterfly effect thing or all those other cool theories I know nothing about, time travel could automatically be problematic- solely as a major health concern. So I guess if people ever go a few hundred years forwards or backwards, wear a hazmat suit or something. And wash yourself down really good.

[quote]Maybe not how Fiction portrays it but maybe some other way?[/quote] Yes...and no. If we ever develop the ability to travel faster-than-light (The "warp drive" from Star Trek is actually based on principles that don't violate the laws of physics), then we will also develop a form of time travel. IOW, if I go from Earth to Alpha Centauri in less than 4 years (distance of 4 light-years), then I have essentially gone BACKWARDS in time during the journey. Because I arrive faster than the light that left from Earth at the same time I did. [spoiler]Actually the game Outriders leverages this aspect of Relativity in its plot. A ship that left Earth after the ship that the heroes are on, actually arrives BEFORE they do. Because that second ship travelled faster and got there years before the first ship. So the second crew (unbeknownst to the first) committed all sorts of atrocities, and screwed things up for the first before they even arrived. [/spoiler] I don't think we will ever be able to go backward in Time like is so common in fiction. But I think we **may** be able to alter the flow of time either through travel at significant fractions of the speed of Light (Time Dilation)....or by "warping" the fabric of Space-Time and thus allowing us to get from Point A to Point B faster-than-light.

I hope not. We’ve done enough damage, unless… [spoiler]we find the first form of human… and…[/spoiler] One thing to think about is that there are a hundred different ways this could work. There’s the butterfly effect, where anything we do in the past affects the future. I think it’s possible that everything we do is predetermined and that any attempt we make to change it was always going to happen. And then there’s the simple answer: it’s literally beyond our comprehension or understanding. And there’s a whole other thing to think about. Instead of actually moving through time, what if we make time move around us? Rewind time, fast-forward it, freeze it, etc. Or, as someone else pointed out, maybe there is no such thing as a “the past” or “the future.” Maybe the present is all there is.

God I hope not. Too many idiots, and I HIGHLY doubt they would [i][b]e v e r[/b][/i] commercialize it. So no, [i]we[/i] won't.

No. Even if we did figure it out, it would be too dangerous to use. Things like the butterfly effect or the grandfather paradox just skim the surface of all the bad stuff that could happen.

Hopefully not, though certainly a fascinating concept.