ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the most obvious problems arise from the contradictions that result when the traveller goes backwards in time, although they apply to travel into the future. In the traditional model, the traveller enters a machine and she and the machine leave the present for the past. In order to do this, the woman-machine complex has to break with the causal nexus that it is at present embedded in. For example, travelling back to present address in 1066 would simply be a matter of travelling back to the same spatial coordinates. But, given that time travel cannot be without causal imprint, even the spatiotemporal coordinates of the place with respect to a frame of reference would be altered. To think of spatiotemporal coordinates as being independent of the distribution of matter would be to regress to a view of the physical world that antedates the relativity theories that have given such a boost to the myths of time travel.
