Technically speaking, there is no present at all. Light travels at a specific speed, so literally everything you see has already happened in the past. Even as I'm typing these words onto this screen the moment has already passed and is in the past. My fingers moved milliseconds (or whatever is smaller than milliseconds) before the light reaches my eyes and my brain processes the movement. The glow of the laptop takes time to reach my eyes and then my brain has to process it. Everything you see, touch, do, smell, taste, experience is in the past. The "Present" doesn't really exist, it's just a comfortable, tangible thing we use to make sense of what's going on.
As to whether or not we can travel further into the past or into the future, I would tell you to take a close look at Quantum Entanglement, I'm not an expert but it seems to suggest that it's theoretically possible. And actually traveling to the future is possible, that's already been proven. If you get into a spaceship and fly to the moon and back everyone on Earth has aged slightly faster than you, the faster you travel, the more the Universe around you ages while your age progresses at a normal rate. The closer you get to the speed of light the more pronounced this becomes. This is already a proven fact as they've done it bouncing lights off of the moon. I couldn't give you the specifics, but it's there if you google it.
By the way, I am right behind you.
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