Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Time Travel

First of all is it possible? And how?
I'm not going to argue facts about how we might go about ripping the time space continuum and travel through time and space, but I will ask some clearly unanswerable but curious questions.
I was watching the Twilight Zone (the originals, there the best!) and there was an episode on time travel where the men were debating what would happen if you traveled back in time and it lead me to think about a few possibilities.

You might think that when you time travel your presence in the past and anything you do can drastically change the future or your present like in The Butterfly Effect. The other way you may think time travel works is that everything that you do or did was supposed to happen like in the Twilight Zone Episode 'Back Then'. The man mysteriously goes to the past o the night of Lincoln's assassination at Ford Theatre and tries to stop the assassin, but when he goes back to the present he realizes after everything he did the present did not change and in fact because of what he did things are the way they are.

There are so many questions that beget questions on this. I’m not exactly sure what I think, but no matter what you do life will be life and we all go through good and bad, it’s all a circle so whether you changed things or nothing at all thing will turn out the same because everything "changes" so much it actually becomes the same and it's all one.

6 comments:

  1. Whether time travel is possible or not, I'd say to leave it alone. Things happened for a reason and that is what makes our world the way it is today. Leave the past in the past and look towards the now and the future and try to change things for the better for the future. There is no point in trying to change the past because it is currently impossible so I believe the Now is the main focus.

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  2. On T.V. there has been so many diffrent senarios of what would happen if someone were to time travel. As you explained in the Twilight Zone when they went back in time and changed an outcome of an event and then went back to their time, it's like what they did never happened. But in back to the future when the guy goes back in time to meet his former self and tells him what teams to gamble on in the future, and then goes back to his present time and is all of a sudden rich.i guess we will never what will really happen in that situation unless someone actually goes and does it, which will probably never happen.

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  3. HOW COOL WOULD IT BE TO TIME TRAVEL? YOU DONT UNDER STAND. YOU CAN GO BACK WHEN THE DINOSUARS LIVED AND YOU CAN WALK WITH THEM. THEY NEED TO COME UP WITH A TIME TRAVELING MACHINE.

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  4. My friend, the question is not whether or not it is possible, but rather, would we have to create a new form of speech to talk when time traveling? Or do we abide to old ones?

    Say you travel to 10 years in the future... And meet your self there. What do you say? Hey man, how are you? I will be doing fine. (Because you're in the future).

    Time to check on Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy :)

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  5. It's supposed to be "they're" not "there" in the beginning. ;p

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  6. It's supposed to be "they're" not "there" ;p

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