Entry 26

Yeah, so...

just thought i'd pop in, rub some dust off the ol' blog, write something not worth reading again.

I guess, since i'm planning on writing a short story about time travel, i'll speculate a bit about it.

Realistically speaking, time travel isn't possible. It would require the existence of a multitude of parallel universes, and i dont believe parallel universes exist.

But assuming time travel DOES exist, you mays well throw in teleportation. Say you had a device that allowed you to travel back in time, and end up at any point on the planet you are on, or anything within your planets gravitational field of influence. That would mean the Moon would have a limited capacity for being travelled to.

Anyway, i think it would be possible to travel back in time, maybe half a second, to any point on the planet. thats teleportation. Time travel farther back is what gets annoying.

Consider time as a line.

consider time travel as taking a thread from the end point of the thread (Now) and reattaching it to a previous part on the thread (then) and then letting the thread continue on its way.

Heres a real-world example.

A man is running. A man appears next to him, who looks just like him. They cross the finish line, and the first man travels back in time to when he was running, except he's running next to himself. he crosses the finish line, and his original self disappears, and he goes and gets a drink of water. The End. 

Its a bit weird. because what will happen has happened before you even contemplate doing it. 

So i've developed a system that kind of works. Lets take the running-man scenario.

The mans running. A kid calls out "I'm Going to throw a rock at you!" and your future self comes back and tells you to step a bit to the left. The kid throws the rock, and you dodge it. You reach the finish line, and theres the time machine. You HAVE to go back in time, otherwise a paradox will take place, and you'll end up with a bruise on your shoulder somehow. So you go back in time, and warn your past self again. 

That system only works if, upon reaching the finish line, you make the choice to go back and remain consistent with the paradox. If one were to choose not to go back, though, then problems would arise. 

BUT that also brings into question the nature of free will in regards to time paradoxes. assuming parallel universes do not exist, and you can go back to any point in time you want from any other point in time, you have all the time in the world to go back and avoid the paradox. So if you cross the finish line, and you choose not to go in, at some point you will go back in time to warn yourself, if by accident or otherwise, because its already happened, it becomes inevitable, the choices of free will have already taken place. you have a choice, but you already know what your choice is before you make your choice. 

am i making sense? I'm glad i'm wording this out. But i should probably be doing something, seeing as i'm in my 3rd block class right now...

Time travel is mind boggling to think about.

Reading over it, i decided to throw in one last thing.

If one were to go back 5 years, you'd be "running" with yourself for a really long time, before your original went back 5 years and you became the sole person. By the time you catch up with yourself, you've aged 5 years. So in my system, once the people go back in time, they retire until their original goes back, at which point they can choose to either return to the force or continue on their paid retirement. 

But no travelling to the future, once your in the past. the future HASN'T happened yet. This short story will take place outside of my amazing timeline (see "History of the Universe"), because its theoretically impossible. 

now i'm done.

back to work.