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That is incorrect. Some quantities might become imaginary but that is a
mathematical artefact.<br>
The real point is, if you combine faster than light travel and Lorentz
invariance of the laws of physics (the invariance principle that is the
basis of Einstein's theory of special relativity), then you can indeed
have trajectories which connect two arbitrary points of spacetime i.e.
in a given reference frame it will look like you can move freely
forward or backwards in time (you're not going ``straight'' into the
past -- you're making little loops, like travelling to a distant star
faster than light and then coming back the same way).<br>
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It is also not clear that moving faster than the speed of light would
allow you to go backward in time. If the mathematics of the
relativity equations correctly describes reality, then a velocity
greater than the speed of light puts you not into negative time but
into imaginary time.<br>
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