Meditations on Time Travel

I’m wholly convinced that time is one of the greatest illusions around; a perfect example of intelligence and self awareness working against the quest for truth and enlightenment. The concept unconsciously came about, I think, the moment the first sentient life form experienced it’s first instance of conditioning, which would later develop into memory. This learning survival tactic incidentally permitted us the ability to log, in a spiritual way, events that have already transpired. It allowed the past to viably exist in the present, and allowed for the concept of a future as well, through inverted reasoning. Once they were granted tangible location status, the desire to travel to them was the obvious next step. The problem, of course, is that neither past nor future exist.

We measure time based on two things; the speed at which our brains process information, and the speed at which the world rotates on it’s axis, and orbits the sun. The latter is a constant frame of reference, while the former is quite varied; a minute can often seem like an hour, and an hour can often seem like a minute. Sleep and dreams can likewise seem to be very brief in comparison to the rotating planet, or they can seem to stretch endlessly on. It’s all relative, and essentially a matter of speed and distance. If you imagine time as a line with a marker traveling steadily down it, abandon such. Picture it, rather, as a spherical sandbox with many markers bouncing around and colliding, endlessly. This recognition of time consisting entirely of motion and physical objects allows a glimpse, however impossible, on how one could potentially "travel in time."

Godlike control of energy would be required; and a means of freezing, and restoring kinetic energy–and that only for traveling into the future. Reversing or inverting kinetic energy, on a grand and borderline infinite scale, would be required to move into the past. As a fan of paradoxes, I don’t see why this would be impossible with proper technology and understanding, but as we have no real means of stopping and restoring kinetic energy, I’m getting quite ahead of myself…but once the ability to freeze both matter, static energy, and kinetic energy, with the ability to restore it exactly as it was when it was halted is acquired, one would need only apply it to the traveler to send him into the future. Traveling into the past is impossible, I think. The closest one could get to it would be to send the world(solar system{universe}) directly backwards by inverting the energy and direction of every swarming particle so that it backtracked perfectly along the path it took to reach where it happens to presently be. Even if every particle was on a reverse course, and we as human beings were born through death, living backwards, we would still perceive a linear forward path, as thoughts would still be the same. No traveler could sit out from this process, however, because he is made up of particles that are essential to it. Therefore I have no reason to think that some other larger, and more sophisticated entity, hasn’t applied it to us already, perhaps repeatedly. Perhaps, experimentally, intervening…inserting a man into a poor peasant girl in Bethlehem to drastically alter the soup of eternity, for reasons not yet revealed.