- Shai Hulud
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Posted by: Dream053
Posted by: Shai Hulud
First of all, this isn't "proof," only evidence. There is a different. Proof would be Bungie saying "no time travel."
Although not quite the same as a definitive answer, an interview with Joseph Staten hinted at the purported explanation of time travel in the Halo franchise, and implied that such an explanation would be silly, and Joseph Staten responded coyly in simple agreement.
Time has been shown to be bent and distorted, but never traveled through, save the lone effect of slipspace, which is only likened to time travel, and only "forward".
Though again, I don't think the time travel theories presented in this forum will actually be the case with the game, I do like to defend said theorists on the basis that space and time are not separate entities. This is shown in special relativity with evidence to back it up (but theories are not fact, I know). Hence the term "space-time." Traveling through one is traveling through the other; it's just not as simple as a linear relationship.
Traveling "forward" through time is a pretty easy-to-consider concept if you know anything about special relativity. Back-wards time-travel is a bit more paradoxical, but it's not that crazy of a theory. We simply don't know enough about time itself to know whether or not its possible.
In sci-fi these things are fudged. "Why nots" come into play, and inventors of certain fictional universes will consider that such things may be possible in the future.
And to whomever else responded to my post about the cyrstal; yes, the crystal distorts space-time, but its distortion of space-time changed how the characters in the story passed through space AND time (hence the anomalies in the date-stamps throughout the book). It's never really said that anyone went backwards in time, no, but it is clear that certain Forerunner tech seem to operate outside the boundaries of human understanding, even at 2552.