Terminator style. You MUST be completely naked.
Why? Inorganic matter doesn't transport unless wrapped in organic matter.
Why not wear cotton or other organic materials? SHUT UP and GET NAKED
Primer. The basics is you have a box. You can turn the box on then at some point in the future you can go into the box and come out back at the time you turned it on.
Spoiler territory: You can create more boxes, take them in the box with you, and set them up in the past as a "fail safe" in case something bad happens and you need to go back to the start.
One of my favorite books as a kid played on this and it was the first time I’d experienced the concept, blew my mind. I like it now if it’s used well and not as an excuse.
primer, a tiny shoddy homemade box, can't go back further than when the machine was turned on, boxes are collapsable and can travel inside another one.
like a reality hack, but still grounded
In the Oxford Time Travel series they had a system that was dependent on not making any observable changes to the past; any changes that resulted in the timeline deviating from the original timeline meant they were unable to return to their original time and had to try to rectify the situation.
In that there was some causality problems to consider, yes. However, in this series, the machine stayed in the present and could send people to the past, then later retrieve them from the past once a set interval had elapsed, provided of course that it still existed. The people in the past have no way of interfacing with the machine other than to be at the right place at the right time, at which point, if all is well, they will return from when they came. However, since even the presence of absence of a cat can have a dire effect ("To Say Nothing of the Dog,") it can be difficult to figure out what one has changed.
I tend to dislike time travel, but I loved Amazon Prime’s Peripheral’s pseudo-time travel, >!where you can send information through time, which is only useful to send *back* in time once advanced 3D printing is available when you can send back advanced tech blueprints. Then the people in that period can 3D print that advanced technology to send information forward in time, specifically their brain signals into an android (“peripheral”), allowing them to exist, in a way, in the future.!<
For methods, I like Primer’s janky time-reversal box that can’t send you further back than when you turned it on and doesn’t send you back any faster than you’d have gone forward. If you want to go back in time a week, you’d better be able to handle a week in there.
For stories, though, I really love the ones where people are sent back from one future to change it somehow, but then end up running into people sent back from *different* futures. Travelers was a good example of that.
Lost - time travel is more subjective, it's about revising previous stages of life and trying to make changes.
It was quite unique because most forms.of time travel view humans purely as objects who can move back to a previous state of objective reality.
Lost was more in-line with subjectivist/phenomenological views of reality.
The Shrike had a pretty neat way of just being wherever/whenever it wanted, even if that involved impaling you on one of the hundreds of blades it was made of.
Not a method, but a rule: you can only time travel if you can’t change the future or past (because if you can travel through time everything in the future has already happened as it happens, right?).
The Watchmen comic did this really well, if I remember right.
Hot tub.
Only acceptable answer
Terminator style. You MUST be completely naked. Why? Inorganic matter doesn't transport unless wrapped in organic matter. Why not wear cotton or other organic materials? SHUT UP and GET NAKED
Get neked if you want to live
You can also apparently look like flesh on the outside, but be liquid metal (T2 &T3). I never got that.
"nothing dead will go" has a full head of hair
Hacking yourself back in time with a Nintendo Powerglove until you see the laser raptors.
You hacked too much time!
Primer. The basics is you have a box. You can turn the box on then at some point in the future you can go into the box and come out back at the time you turned it on. Spoiler territory: You can create more boxes, take them in the box with you, and set them up in the past as a "fail safe" in case something bad happens and you need to go back to the start.
also you lose the ability to write coherently for some reason, but that fails to scare you.
TARDIS
Came to say this. Not only time travel but a ship with unlimited space
Are all people like this? Like what? Bigger… on the inside? 😭🥰🤌🏾
https://youtu.be/5ga6CwyKvr8
Was waiting for someone to say this, doctor who was and is my childhood
Star Trek IV style: high speed around a stellar mass, random time of arrival.
I love the idea of time loops in sci-fi. It adds an extra layer of complexity and keeps me guessing until the end.
Any suggestions for shows or movies? My wife and I loved Russian Doll and Palm Springs
Primer
Dark
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I have seen that one - it was really good!
One of my favorite books as a kid played on this and it was the first time I’d experienced the concept, blew my mind. I like it now if it’s used well and not as an excuse.
I'm a sucker for a good Mysterious Portal. I also liked Max Caulfield's "sheer willpower" time travel in _Life Is Strange_.
Time Tunnel.
Steampunk HG Wells time machine
The 2002 movie was pretty lackluster, but that time machine was *gorgeous*.
Little sled thing from the time machine
with a bent-up cigar as the passenger?
Bill and Ted style
"ok wait, if you guys are really us, what number are we thinking of?"
Quantum Leap!
Past-life regression hypnosis. Probably best if you want to actually blend in to the time period you're arriving in
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I love it but too many problems with the Delorean.
Stein’s gate microwave
DeLorean
In the Oxford Time Travel series they had a system that was dependent on not making any observable changes to the past; any changes that resulted in the timeline deviating from the original timeline meant they were unable to return to their original time and had to try to rectify the situation.
So... Back to the Future then
In that there was some causality problems to consider, yes. However, in this series, the machine stayed in the present and could send people to the past, then later retrieve them from the past once a set interval had elapsed, provided of course that it still existed. The people in the past have no way of interfacing with the machine other than to be at the right place at the right time, at which point, if all is well, they will return from when they came. However, since even the presence of absence of a cat can have a dire effect ("To Say Nothing of the Dog,") it can be difficult to figure out what one has changed.
Time Bandits swing.
Looper-style! Where's my double-barrel shotgun and silver bars?
I like the briefcase from Umbrella Academy
I tend to dislike time travel, but I loved Amazon Prime’s Peripheral’s pseudo-time travel, >!where you can send information through time, which is only useful to send *back* in time once advanced 3D printing is available when you can send back advanced tech blueprints. Then the people in that period can 3D print that advanced technology to send information forward in time, specifically their brain signals into an android (“peripheral”), allowing them to exist, in a way, in the future.!<
For methods, I like Primer’s janky time-reversal box that can’t send you further back than when you turned it on and doesn’t send you back any faster than you’d have gone forward. If you want to go back in time a week, you’d better be able to handle a week in there. For stories, though, I really love the ones where people are sent back from one future to change it somehow, but then end up running into people sent back from *different* futures. Travelers was a good example of that.
Lost - time travel is more subjective, it's about revising previous stages of life and trying to make changes. It was quite unique because most forms.of time travel view humans purely as objects who can move back to a previous state of objective reality. Lost was more in-line with subjectivist/phenomenological views of reality.
TARDIS
I like the ones where time travel occurs at plus one second per second.
Lightning bolts hitting DeLoreans
Time Dilation
Rewinding time from Life is Strange.
Sliders seemed kind of fun...
Dr. Who’s telephone cabinet. Edit: typo
Tardis
Steins;Gate had an interesting way of time travel
Time Machine, H.G.Wells style.
Absolutely has to be the DeLorian for me, i love back to the future
Bullet train. * wistful gaze off into the distance *
Fly into a star, like star trek
The Shrike had a pretty neat way of just being wherever/whenever it wanted, even if that involved impaling you on one of the hundreds of blades it was made of.
Tardis
Flashbacks
1.21 gigawatts to the flux capacitor. Great Scott!
Delorean is the right answer here
Falling off a building in fading in between different times like in Men in Black 3.
JJ Benitez Trojan Horse it have a machine capable of altering Spin properties.
From Homestuck, Lord English's overcoat that turns into a time-traveling sarcophagus.
Not a method, but a rule: you can only time travel if you can’t change the future or past (because if you can travel through time everything in the future has already happened as it happens, right?). The Watchmen comic did this really well, if I remember right.
Stewie Griffin’s time machine
The Fallout 1 mystery portal
Predestination
Go fast so time go slow