# Is traveling to to future possible?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [May 10, 2006, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-traveling-to-to-future-possible/356293 "2006-05-10T23:39:06Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-traveling-to-to-future-possible/356293/21 "2006-05-12T01:53:46Z")

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Sleep is a form of Time Travel. Close your eyes one night, and bingo! It’s the next morning, your alarm hasn’t gone off, and you’re late for work… 😃

Seriously though, I’m rather fond of the [Paratime](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_history_%28fiction%29) idea (made famous by H. Beam Piper in the _Paratime Police_ and _Gunpowder God/Lord Kalvan Of Otherwhen_ stories, but used more recently by Michael Crichton in _Timeline_).

I’m more inclined to say that the closest thing we’re likely to get to actual time travel, however, is hyper-realistic computer simulations (kind of like the Holodeck from _Star Trek_), in which any possible scenario can be fed into the mainframe and a realistic simulation thereof can be produced.

Of course, If Time Travel in is truest sense were developed, I think it would lead to an interesting number of oppurtunities- ranging from Pan-Temporal Imperialism/Trading, to Dinosaur Hunting Safaris, to simple Time Tourism- not to mention definitively answering a few questions about some of the major religions, too…

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