Ethics

If you know what the above word means, then you'd probably be running away, screaming by now. And so you should. The eithics of time travel: if we could travel through time, should we?

In a word: no.

» What? Why not?

Well then, let's see: a list of rules for the typical safe time traveller:

• Don't go back in time and kill any relatives.
• Don't go back in time and kill anyone.
• Don't go back in time and interact with yourself.
• Don't go back in time and interact with anyone.
• Don't go back in time and drive through heavy traffic.
• Don't go back in time and stand in a crowd.
• Don't go back to the eons and eons ago and squish a fly.
• Don't go back in time and knock over anything.
• Don't go back in time with the intention of gambling.
• Don't go back in time and touch anything.
• Don't go back in time and get seen.
• Don't go forward in time and get seen.
• Don't go millions of years into the future.

...and so on and so forth. From the mistakes made by science fiction characters alone, we can see the many problems that time travel can create. Chaos theory states that even the littlest change in a complex system (our universe) can lead to catastrophic events later on.

» That sucks.

Yes, yes it does. As ironic as it is for a site all about the awesome possibilities of time travel to be reporting this, acutal physical time travel will most probably do more harm than good.

Well, that's ethics for ya!

Run along now.