will humans ever be able to time travel?

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Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the physics of time travel to Joe Santagato while they play a card game from Hot Ones Game Night. The conversation shifts from scientific theory to a humorous remark about the depth of the explanation.

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1Host asks a question from the game card
2Neil deGrasse Tyson explains time dilation
3Host clarifies the concept of time travel
4Tyson explains the limitations of traveling to one's own future
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will humans ever be able to time travel? never?! we can time travel to the future but... not the past we can travel to the future? Isn't that time travel? i guess so... if i accelerate you through space for a while, and you age, let's say ten minutes, and i bring you back to earth, depending on what speed i sent you, we could have aged an hour a day a year you went into the future not into your own future! you went into everybody else's future! it's a form of time travel! but there's no way for you to go into your own future you are a prisoner... of the present in your timeline forever transitioning between your inaccessible past and your unknowable future that would be a fire tattoo! what you just said on some dude's ribs!

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will humans ever be able to time travel? No. Never? We can time travel to the future but... not the past. We can travel to the future? Yeah. Isn't that time travel? I guess so... Okay, so yes. If I accelerate you through space for a while, and you age, let's say ten minutes, and I bring you back to earth, depending on what speed I sent you, we could have aged an hour, a day, a year. Oh. You went into the future. Not into your own future! You went into everybody else's future! That's a form of time travel! But there's no way for you to go into your own future. You are a prisoner of the present in your timeline, forever transitioning between your inaccessible past and your unknowable future. That would be a fire tattoo! But what you just said on some dude's ribs!