You’ve seen movies about time
travel and if you’re like me you’ve done your research and have a good idea of
how close (or how very far) we are
from achieving it. Let’s assume for the
moment that it is possible and we are
capable of it. What then? Will we tamper with the past to change the
future? What events will we change and
how will they affect other moments in our history? I’ve thought about it from time to time (no
pun intended) and I came up with my own theory.
And here it is..
I believe
that if time travel were possible and you could
travel back in time, you would not be able to affect anything at all. I believe
that if you were to go into the past, you would not even be seen by anyone there. If you were to stand in front of an
approaching person, they would simply pass through you. The reason being: you do not yet exist. Even though you are there in your own body,
you will be housed in a body which was not from
that time. Therefore, in the eyes of
those in the past, you are not there.
Even though you are visiting another time and seeing it with your own
eyes, you are seeing something that has happened already and cannot be changed. Although it would be an interesting experience,
you could only be a spectator, not a participant.
I
believe the same holds true for the future.
It would probably be the same.
You would be a ghost because likewise you would not be from that time. In fact, you will have been long dead.
I believe
there is little or no difference between the past present and future. Even the future has already happened. Humor me for a moment.
Imagine
you could throw a rock into outer space.
It would travel on and on forever until it finally hit something. Let’s assume that the very moment you threw
the rock, there is no way to retrieve it.
(Duh) Consider it an irreversible decision. In a way, the rock had already landed at its
destination because it is GOING to happen and it CANNOT be stopped. The minute you threw it… the action was
complete even though it hadn’t quite played out yet.
The same
holds true for the signals that we (humans) have been broadcasting into outer
space over the past 100 years with hopes of reaching some intelligent life-form. Is there any
way possible we can go back and catch those waves? We cannot.
It is irreversible. Therefore, whatever those waves run into
whether a star, black hole or an alien radio receiver, the action is done. Perhaps we’ve already been visited by others
who are able to travel through
time. If that were the case, the moment
the signal was sent, it is possible that we could have been visited the next
day or within the same hour. That is, if
they could travel back in time. However, if I’m correct, we would never know
it because they would not have been from
this time and therefore would not exist! Unless I’m wrong, then maybe that explains all the UFO sightings we’ve been seeing for
quite some time now.
What it
all boils down to is the irreversible
decision. Once it is made there is no going back! Does it really
matter whether it will take a hundred years or a billion years to play
out? What’s done is done. Maybe, in the eyes of time, there is no past present or future, only
decisions and outcomes. Those decisions
that have not yet been made… will eventually be made, will they
not? Once those decisions are made they will play out eventually. In a way everything has already been
done. There is no way to UNDO an
irreversible decision. They WILL be made
and regardless of the amount of time that passes, the outcome will come to pass. There is no way to change what we will do in the future. Even
if we change our minds and make a different decision… even then, it will still be that final decision we were
destined to make. Regardless, we still
have to make those irreversible decisions.
They MUST be thought out and put into motion. I could be right and I could be wrong….
Nevertheless, that’s my two cents on time travel.
Inspired by: Into
the Universe with Stephen Hawkins Season
I Episode 2 “Time Travel” via
Netflix
