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Popular television shows such as "Doctor Who" have brought the idea of time travel into the vernacular of popular culture. But problem of time travel is even more complicated than one might think. LSU's Mark Wilde has shown that it would theoretically be possible for time travelers to copy quantum data from the past.
For example, would it be possible to travel back in time to kill one's grandfather? In the Grandfather paradox, a time traveler faces the problem that if he kills his grandfather back in time, then he himself is never born, and consequently is unable to travel through time to kill his grandfather, and so on. Some theorists have used this paradox to argue that it is actually impossible to change the past.
Deutsch solved the Grandfather paradox originally using a slight change to quantum theory, proposing that you could change the past as long as you did so in a self-consistent manner.
"Meaning that, if you kill your grandfather, you do it with only probability one-half," Wilde said. "Then, he's dead with probability one-half, and you are not born with probability one-half, but the opposite is a fair chance. You could have existed with probability one-half to go back and kill your grandfather."
I also remember seeing a documentary about time travel, saying that time paradoxes could be impossible, as the universe will simply not allow it happen for some odd reason.
Specimen
The thing with time travel these days from what modern scientists say, is that it almost impossible to figure out how to go back in time. They know it possible to go forward due to what happened to an astronaut moving a few seconds forward in time.
OccamsRazor04
I think the most likely way time travel would exist is to travel to alternate universes. No Paradox then.