TBF they discovered it dring that episode, and only ever did it once again. Also it wasn’t just any star, and they slingshot into a warp speed most ships can’t achieve.
But ya magnets + gravity + speed /= backwards time travel lol
edit: Canonically James T Kirk wrote about time travel. The first chapter begins as follows.
With our current mathematical models of physics, if you travel faster than light, you go backwards in time. Though, most scientific communities reject the possibility of FTL travel. However, there’s still the idea of tachyons, I guess.
TBF they discovered it dring that episode, and only ever did it once again. Also it wasn’t just any star, and they slingshot into a warp speed most ships can’t achieve.
But ya magnets + gravity + speed /= backwards time travel lol
edit: Canonically James T Kirk wrote about time travel. The first chapter begins as follows.
The second chapter was.
And the final chapter on time travel was.
he really like suspenseful pauses.
But what
is a man
supposed
to do
when he wants to fuck
his Grandma
but like
when she was hot?
They used that method once more in Picard season 2 with assistance from a Borg Queen. As that timeline no longer exists, we can all just ignore it.
With our current mathematical models of physics, if you travel faster than light, you go backwards in time. Though, most scientific communities reject the possibility of FTL travel. However, there’s still the idea of tachyons, I guess.
A pretty good source on the topic: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsPUh22kYmNC0xsEp6YXRq2ALms7fTwrx
Everyone’s face rapidly de-aging while getting torn to oblivion simultaneously as Superman logrolls the earth into the Mesozoic era.