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Time travel itself has always been something I've been fascinated by, but it's not always that safe. There are several reasons why it can destroy everything while still being intriguing such as: can you change time at all? Whether past or future, even when you do go to change something it's because you already have. Paradoxes are also surprisingly easy to make, for example you might go to the past to solve a problem, then back to present day assuming no repercussions, why would you go back to solve a non-existent problem? Another thing troubling time travel is viruses. Go too far into the past, you kill it. Go into the future, it kills you. Altogether making time travel extremely dangerous even just to see how things happened thanks to the butterfly effect. A chain of events where something quite small causes something catastrophically larger.

Assuming time travel is possible, either we have already changed it or never will. If you were able to change time, it would almost always have to cause a loop or a paradox. For the loop, there may be a problem you're trying to fix by time travel. Going into the past/future trying to prevent the problem from ever forming but in doing so you instead create said problem though time travel, thus making a loop through time.

A time paradox is formed when the product of something destroys what created it before it could have been created. A famous paradox is simply going back before you were born and killing one of your parents preventing your own existence. But paradoxes are so much easier to create, even by accident with something innocent. Let's say you're trying to invent time travel and after years of research, trial and error, you've accomplished it through numerous sleepless nights and arguments with your spouse and eventually divorce but it's still worth it because you've created man's greatest wonder. To ease the pain and loss of everything you decide to give yourself a shortcut and travel back in time to tell yourself how to create and use the time machine before things go wrong. But thieves come and steal answers to time travel and you never get to create it; Paradox. Or maybe you do try to use the instructions but your whole life is still ahead of you and your family takes priority over time and whether you never get around to it or through it out completely, time travel still isn't created and you have a paradox.

Another reason time travel is a bad idea is because traveling far enough into the past, viruses from the present are more advanced being able to infect and kill anything and everything. Creating yet another paradox. If you were to instead go to the future the exact opposite would happen. Viruses and germs have become more efficient at attacking as well as resisting present and future medicines. The viruses being much more effective than your immune system ever had to handle, to put it simply the future environment kills you. However, I think you should be able to avoid the effects of this if you were to travel in smaller increments, like a few months where years would be too risky to attempt. Even then, how do we know that with time travel it wouldn't bring disease? The only form of possible time travel without any disease related risks would be to instead move your consciousness through time to your body again. But you wouldn't react the same, you'd never make some of the biggest mistakes you learned from that made you who you are, just another case of paradoxes.

So, it is best to leave all time travel in our imaginations, right where it belongs. Time and people are too unpredictable to properly time tavel anyway. We'd end up right where we started. No matter how small your change may be, there's still the butterfly effect to change everything. Paradoxes are still easy to create, just making more trying to prevent one most likely. The only way I believe you can truly change time at all is through someone else you may have never met, and they don't know who you are or that you're intentionally trying to change something; That would be the only way time wouldn't loop or get stuck in a paradox, by including as many independent factors as possible where it can't come back to the traveler. Small jumps still affect a lot too; It's another loop that by studying and taking a virus to study it in the present such as the West Nile Virus offering vaccine research to the past might be how it was first spread. Besides all the other confusion, headaches from precise planning to have it go wrong anyway continuing to make everything worse, time travel is best left alone. As Albert Einstein once said: "I never think about the future – it comes soon enough."

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Time travel itself has always been something I've been fascinated by, but it's not always that safe. There are several reasons why it can destroy everything while still being intriguing such as: can you change time at all? Whether past or future, even when you do go to change something it's because you already have. Paradoxes are also surprisingly easy to make, for example you might go to the past to solve a problem, then back to present day assuming no repercussions, why would you go back to solve a non-existent problem? Another thing troubling time travel is viruses. Go too far into the past, you kill it. Go into the future, it kills you. Altogether making time travel extremely dangerous even just to see how things happened thanks to the butterfly effect. A chain of events where something quite small causes something catastrophically larger.

Assuming time travel is possible, either we have already changed it or never will. If you were able to change time, it would almost always have to cause a loop or a paradox. For the loop, there may be a problem you're trying to fix by time travel. Going into the past/future trying to prevent the problem from ever forming but in doing so you instead create said problem though time travel, thus making a loop through time.

A time paradox is formed when the product of something destroys what created it before it could have been created. A famous paradox is simply going back before you were born and killing one of your parents preventing your own existence. But paradoxes are so much easier to create, even by accident with something innocent. Let's say you're trying to invent time travel and after years of research, trial and error, you've accomplished it through numerous sleepless nights and arguments with your spouse and eventually divorce but it's still worth it because you've created man's greatest wonder. To ease the pain and loss of everything you decide to give yourself a shortcut and travel back in time to tell yourself how to create and use the time machine before things go wrong. But thieves come and steal answers to time travel and you never get to create it; Paradox. Or maybe you do try to use the instructions but your whole life is still ahead of you and your family takes priority over time and whether you never get around to it or through it out completely, time travel still isn't created and you have a paradox.

Another reason time travel is a bad idea is because traveling far enough into the past, viruses from the present are more advanced being able to infect and kill anything and everything. Creating yet another paradox. If you were to instead go to the future the exact opposite would happen. Viruses and germs have become more efficient at attacking as well as resisting present and future medicines. The viruses being much more effective than your immune system ever had to handle, to put it simply the future environment kills you. However, I think you should be able to avoid the effects of this if you were to travel in smaller increments, like a few months where years would be too risky to attempt. Even then, how do we know that with time travel it wouldn't bring disease? The only form of possible time travel without any disease related risks would be to instead move your consciousness through time to your body again. But you wouldn't react the same, you'd never make some of the biggest mistakes you learned from that made you who you are, just another case of paradoxes.

So, it is best to leave all time travel in our imaginations, right where it belongs. Time and people are too unpredictable to properly time tavel anyway. We'd end up right where we started. No matter how small your change may be, there's still the butterfly effect to change everything. Paradoxes are still easy to create, just making more trying to prevent one most likely. The only way I believe you can truly change time at all is through someone else you may have never met, and they don't know who you are or that you're intentionally trying to change something; That would be the only way time wouldn't loop or get stuck in a paradox, by including as many independent factors as possible where it can't come back to the traveler. Small jumps still affect a lot too; It's another loop that by studying and taking a virus to study it in the present such as the West Nile Virus offering vaccine research to the past might be how it was first spread. Besides all the other confusion, headaches from precise planning to have it go wrong anyway continuing to make everything worse, time travel is best left alone. As Albert Einstein once said: "I never think about the future – it comes soon enough."