Editing Time travel (section)

=== Mythical time travel ===

[[File:Irvington statue of Rip van Winkle.jpg|thumb|Statue of [[Rip Van Winkle]] in [[Irvington, New York]]]]

Some ancient myths depict a character skipping forward in time. In Hindu mythology, the ''[[Vishnu Purana]]'' mentions the story of King Raivata [[Kakudmi]], who travels to heaven to meet the creator [[Brahma]] and is surprised to learn when he returns to Earth that many ages have passed.<ref>{{citation|section-url=http://www.mythfolklore.net/india/encyclopedia/revati.htm|last1=Dowson|first1=John|section=Revati|title=A classical dictionary of Hindu mythology and religion, geography, history, and literature|year=1879|publisher=[[Routledge]]|access-date=2009-08-20|archive-date=2017-09-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170907064810/http://www.mythfolklore.net/india/encyclopedia/revati.htm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{citation|url=https://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/vp/vp093.htm#page_355|title=The Vishnu Purana: Book IV: Chapter I|access-date=2022-01-08|archive-date=2022-05-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220527102631/https://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/vp/vp093.htm#page_355|url-status=live}}</ref> The Buddhist [[Pāli Canon]] mentions the relativity of time. The [[Payasi]] Sutta tells of one of the [[Gautama Buddha|Buddha]]'s chief disciples, Kumara [[Mahākāśyapa|Kassapa]], who explains to the skeptic Payasi that time in the Heavens passes differently than on Earth.<ref>{{citation|title=Indian Philosophy|edition=7|author=Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya|publisher=People's Publishing House, New Delhi|year=1964|author-link=Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya}}</ref> The Japanese tale of "[[Urashima Tarō]]",<ref name=Yorke>{{cite journal|title=Malchronia: Cryonics and Bionics as Primitive Weapons in the War on Time|first=Christopher|last=Yorke|journal=[[Journal of Evolution and Technology]]|volume=15|issue=1|date=February 2006|pages=73–85|url=http://jetpress.org/volume15/yorke-rowe.html|access-date=August 29, 2009|archive-date=May 16, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060516005834/http://www.jetpress.org/volume15/yorke-rowe.html|url-status=live}}</ref> first described in the ''[[Manyoshu]]'', tells of a young fisherman named Urashima-no-ko ({{lang|ja|浦嶋子}}) who visits an undersea palace. After three days, he returns home to his village and finds himself 300 years in the future, where he has been forgotten, his house is in ruins, and his family has died.<ref>{{cite book|title=Folklore, myths, and legends: a world perspective|first=Donna|last=Rosenberg|publisher=[[McGraw-Hill]]|year=1997|isbn=978-0-8442-5780-8|page=421}}</ref>