This has always been a question that rattles in my head from time to time. I know there are probably some super scientific reasons why time travel would or wouldn't work, but I'm more interested in the ways that YOUR brain seems okay with. I guess I'm just looking for creative examples of how people may explain it in fiction.
My thoughts on it are an example:
My brain likes to think that "Time Travel" wouldn't quite REALLY exist how it's portrayed, but instead would be a kinda inter-universal travel. If I wanted to travel from today (October 12, 2024) to, say, August 12th, 1997, then the time machine would somehow find and lock onto a universe where (assuming multiverse theory is true) the universe is almost exactly like our own, except it started
later than our universe, so we're coexisting in the omniverse at the exact same time, but while in THIS universe it is October 12, 2024, in the OTHER universe it is August 12, 1997.
Here is a visual example I whipped up in MS Paint.
I'd love to here anyone elses ideas! I know this is probably a very "out there" topic, but it's something nonetheless I think!