Time Travel

Time Travel

Since the beginning, modern man has entertained the possibility of time travel.  Since it would create a paradox while others say if we can imagine it we can find a way to do it.  Some say it is impossible.

If you want to travel into the past you have to respect the period with an agreement of non-interference.  Because, as we all know, when you  affect the past you change the future (and this this would be the present).  If you travel into the future you need to respect a non-interference practice so you don’t bring back anything that will change the future.  Any interaction you might exert could change the future because of changes that would take place in the present. And that would have an equally damaging effect on the future's past.  What kind of a future would you be going back too.

So the logic in my mind would show a need to travel in a kind of observation bubble.  Something that would isolate us from whatever time we would be visiting.  We might not be seen by who or what we observe but it would allow us to observe, the future or the past, without the consequences of physically interacting with that part of the time continuum during our visit.  I suppose this would be a good thing regarding that non-interference agreement that we would need to observe.

© Copyright Charles Hawkins 2013

Another thought crossed my mind regarding Time Travel.  Nothing in the Universe travels in a straight line. A strait line is simply a segment of an arc.  And an arc is just part of a circle.  So if we were able to travel fare enough into the future we would find ourselves approaching the beginning of our past. This brings up a question about travel into the past. Could we travel far enough into the past that we would eventually find ourselves in the future?  And does your head hurt yet?

I suppose what I am getting at is time is not linier. It must move in a circle.  When traveling through space we travel in an arc. However so slight an arc if we could continue far enough we would eventually arrive at our journeys beginning.

 As science has taught us you can’t get something from nothing.  And nothing can be destroyed.  It can only be changed.  We have to discover what the cost would be (on many levels) to travel time.

There are other journeys we would take to learn about our universe.  What would be necessary to embark on these exploits would take much more knowledge than we currently possess. It would take a radio transmission many millions of light years to reach our nearest neighboring star.  So how are we going to do it?