Quantum physics - time travel and consciousness.?

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Thephilosopher

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As we all know light takes time to travel through space; for example it takes around 8 minutes for light to reach us from the Sun. In other words, we are looking into the past right? So considering that time exists individually for each and one of us (regarding Einstein's theory and how technically going to the 'future' is possible) is there a way to TRAVEL back into the past or only see it?

Also, everything we see is a minuscule part in the past - so what is the present if time is represented as a linear time-line? Our thoughts and consciousness; are they merely electrical impulses which also take time to travel and reach receptors or the brain, OR is the present only an imaginary parameter created by our minds?

Let me know what you think.

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DanielPiggott

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Travelling backwards in time, is impossible, as soon as you go backwards, you create a paradox, the sequence of events in the universe becomes 'corrupted', so basically it cannot exist. As for the light, you see the sun as it was 8 minutes ago, you are not looking 'into the past' rather looking at a photograph, looking at a memory.
 
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