Silver Enthusiast

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I assume by 'time travel' that you mean getting from one part of the universe to another part of the universe in a time period that is shorter than if you were to travel that distance at near the speed of light. So called 'hyperspeed' or 'travel through hyperspace'. I make that assumption in order to distinguish from the day to day time travel which occurs routinely every time we move away from a stationary observer and return to that observer some time later, arriving back into his or her future although our clocks would tell us otherwise. But that's another subject. So if my assumption on your definition of time travel is correct, my answer is as follows: First, black holes , which absorb mass, have been proven to exist; white holes (mass emitters), have not. But if white holes are one day found ..and there are those who already believe that our universe is a white hole having evolved from the explosion of a super super super mother black hole at the 'Big Bang' some 13 billion years ago, what would happen at the black/white hole conjunction is not travel through time, but, rather, travel to another universe, or, at least, to a higher order dimension of space time! Unfortunately, if I understand Hawking correctly, it appears that only ultra short length, ultra high frequency gravity waves, such as may exist in black holes, would be capable of making this passage. You and I, mere mortals, are forever confined to our 4D universe, and there is no way out. So in summary, the answer to your question is 'no'. Time travel, if it ever becomes possible, must be not via black holes or white holes, but wormholes (q.v.)
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