Elaboration:

Imagine Spacetime as a movie film reel. All of time (past, present, future) exist at the same time just like all the frames of that movie exist on that reel. If you want to time travel you go to the frame location on that reel. That location we call a WHEN but it is also a WHERE on the reel. Also, when physicists state that time and space are interwoven a film reel analogy encapsulates that theory well. So, time travel could be simply going to a specific coordinate in Space.

Theoretical Physicist Sean Caroll uses the film strip analogy in this video:

Sean Carroll Explains Presentism and Eternalism

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternalism_(philosophy_of_time)

The illusion of time : past, present and future all exist together

Is Time A Single Block? Eternalism And The Andromeda Paradox

Time: Do the past, present, and future exist all at once? | Big Think

Disclaimer: Obviously, I have been watching too many Youtube videos and none of the concepts are my own. But I did think of the WHERE VS. WHEN regarding time travel analogy as I haven’t seen anyone state it that way yet.

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That’s because you need to factor in the power of love.

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