On Time Travel

              There have been many misconceptions about time travel since its first introduction to literature in 1733 by  Samuel Madden, where his guardian angel brings back  reports from 1997 and 1998 describing the condition of the era. Many people believe that when invented, time machines will allow you to punch in a year, month, day and time to travel to. This is due mainly to the many movies that use this method as a convenient plot device to get to a desired outcome in the story. While building a time machine will be a science, directing it to a certain long gone era will not be. Time is not like an infinite story building, as much as a time machine is not an elevator where you can punch a simple button to direct it to a pre-set floor. A time machine in reality will take you wherever the wormhole ends, or wherever space time decides to unbend, depending on which theory you subscribe to. If a time machine is like an elevator, it will be more like the glass elevator found in Mr. Wonkas Factory, but without the technology to guide it at will. It will go forwards and backward, occasionally down and up, and sometimes stranding you on another planet in which case, if far enough in the future, this planet may be colonized by another race that may find you very tasty. 
    Another misconceptions is that whatever time period you arrive in, you will appear in the same space as you left from. Like, “oh wow, that stream that ran behind my house is now a raging river 1,000 years in the past”. The flaw in this is the fact that the earth rotates. So imagine that you departed your time period at noon in Lima Peru, and say, you ended up in the past at midnight, you would now be in Bangkok Thailand. 
    Really, the only way to know where and when you ended up would be by what type of dinosaur was trying to make you his lunch, and what type of tree you just climbed in an attempt to escape it. Assuming you have the knowledge of ancient ecology 
    Another problem with time travel is that you can never return to the present. You may be lucky enough after many time jumps, to end up in a time near your first departure, but then there’s the risk of all those paradoxes associated with seeing yourself, or changing an event resulting in erasing your own existence. So the best idea is to leave immediately. A general rule is to not remain in any time period within 100 years from your originating jump date. This leaves the adventure of time travel to a very small demographic of adventurers. Ideal candidates are the homeless, those without family or anything to lose, or those that are just unhappy with everyone and life in general. Because of this, time travel should be regulated and restricted to people 21 and over, lest the past become populated with Emo’s, Goth’s, and the general teen angst community.