We don't call it time travel because it's too familiar - but it is, in a way. We're all travelling through time, all the time. Or it least it feels like we are.

I mean, say I made a ship that produces WARP SCOOBY-DOO fields that distort the flow of time, and when I get in it, press a button, and get out, I'm in the year 4500.

But when I get there, some bald guy is like "oh, you weren't time travelling, you were just in STASIS for 2500 years". I'd dramatically tell him to "STEP OFF MY TIME BISTRO" - but how would I prove any sort of difference?

What is the real difference? That the ship was sitting there, with me looking frozen the whole time? Is that what counts? Would it make a difference if it was cloaked behind the scooby-doo rays?

What if I got in the ship and then got out in the past - would it matter then that the ship was sitting there with me frozen inside "during transit"?