Time Travel

So I just got done Watching tonight's episode of Lost. No spoilers if you didn't watch, but I will say it involved time travel. Lots of it. The more I watched the more I kept yelling "No. NO. That doesn't make any fucking sense, time doesn't work like that, you braindead plebs" at my tv. I know time travel is mostly theoretical, but can /sci/ explain time travel to me as best as they can? I'm sure you understand it better than Lost's writers do

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Oh, well then it's simple. Time travel is intuitive; anything you do in the past changes the future without affecting your traveling back in the first place.

But when you travel back, you end up inexplicably naked.

ALWAYS.