Who invented time travel?

[edX]

how about the person who invented time, whoever that might have been. or at least the measurement of time. or maybe the concept of time zones. i know there are several state lines i can cross and either lose or repaeat an hour.

[xaqintosh]

I personally think its some kind of trick question with one of those "I never would have thought of that" or "why didn't I think of that" answers. Because no one could have "invented" time or time travel.

[robotguy]

if nobody

has invented time

why am I wearing

this silly Swatch?

[Austin Powers]

So, if I travel back to 1969 and I was frozen in 1967, I could go look at my frozen self. But, if I'm still frozen in 1967, how could I have been unthawed in the 90's and traveled back to the Sixties?

*goes cross-eyed*

Oh, no, I've gone cross-eyed.

[xaqintosh]

for example, in that movie the time machine that I just saw,
he goes back in time to keep his girlfriend from dying, but if she hadn't died he never would have made a time machine so she would have still died so he would have made a time machine and gone back in time and....

you get the point

[brianleahy]

Yes, that is the essence of paradox. Maybe you could go back in time and have a look around, but you could not go back with a goal of changing the past and have any chance of success, because if you succeeded, you would negate your motive for going back in the first place.

This is not to say you couldn't change anything -- you just couldn't change the thing which made you decide to go back...

[Dr. Evil]

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the time portal. As you know, Austin Powers was frozen in 1967. Therefore, I time travel to 1969, two years after he was frozen. Security will be lax and I'll strike when he is totally helpless. First, I take Austin Powers' mojo. Then I begin my domination of the world.

*maniacal laugh*

Ha-ha-ha! Ha-ha-ha!

[MacLuv]

Time travel...

It's about innerspace, not outerspace.

One person, having the power to control the destiny of the world, would be the master of the game. That person would also get bored pretty quickly, freezing points in time to return and change consequences at will. A time machine would eventually mean creation by thought. In other words, the best example of why time travel already exists is, believe it or not, in the movie Bill & Ted's excellent adventure: if an agreement is made to do something in the future that will change the past, will it affect the present?

The paradox is that if this could happen nothing could exist. Time travel exists, but only within our minds. It's already been invented. So who invented it? Who's responsible for coding our DNA?