User talk:SouthWriter/sandbox/An atheist's objections/@comment-1777104-20100812145441

Oer, I'm with McG (who couldn't wait to sign it to let out his 'Aargh!'), time travel is impossible. The very principles that make time possible make time travel impossible. The corollary to relativity known as "quantum theory" is based on the unpredictable behavior of particles that we cannot see directly. These subatomic particles are only known by what they do to their environment when they are disturbed. (That's like you being only known by the damage you do if lose control of your emotion!)

Anyway, if time travel were possible some day, and the travelers were able to interact with the past, I am convinced that they would only be part of an unrecorded past which results in our present. The eerie thing about alternate history is that we are in effect "time traveling" in alternative universes. I like community involvement in time lines, and even the TSPTF, which keeps us accountable when considering the consequences of a changed past. Only one time line is possible, for there is indeed a God in control of every bit of His creation. He has even seen fit to let us in on the beginning and the end of the story! So that is where we should go if we want to understand what is wrong with the world around us, and what can be done to be on the "right side" when it all comes to an end some day.