> If time travel were at all possible...wouldn't somebody from the future have come back and told us by now?
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> The Other "Maybe I just missed it, or something" Matthew

That depends on what kind of time travel you end up with, really. The link below is a darn cool basic guide (I believe Morris gave it to me) of time travel theories as used in science fiction.

There are plenty ways in which if time travel were possible, nobody would tell *us* that... like in the Journeyman Project games (where my RinkName comes from), time travel is a *very intensely* guarded thing. The only reason anyone would go back in time would be for historical research or to protect the integrity of the timestream. (According to the link, it's a Type Three plot.) And any time travel is done in such a way as to minimize the historical impact... like throwing a rock in a river, a small disturbance may be caused, but the overall flow of the river is unaffected.

I would imagine, if how time works IS a Type Three idea, that early discovery of time travel would utterly rewrite history from this point onward, thus completely changing the world of the future from which the time traveler(s) originated. (This almost happens in the very beginning of the Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time, incidentally.)

Sosi"time travel is cool, and I wish I could do it"qui