Time travel VISA denied
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 1:11 am
Some thoughts on: Science, Fiction and Time Travel; either forwards or backwards (or sideways!)
Among the amazing technological feats that are just waiting for us to discover; Interstellar Space drives, Teleportation, Micro-wave Burritos that are actually Tasty and don't fry the Tongue's Taste Buds ...
You'll find Time Travel as a matter of course, since the earliest days of Humanity's speculation, on 'What could be'. We'll get to it eventually- Man dreamt of Flight, Cameros and Take-out Chicken, until ultimately he made them a reality; so what's to stop him from Traveling through Time, someday?
Other than the fact that creating Time Paradoxes is bad form, and infringes on others civil temporal rights; there's the simple matter of transporting matter across timestreams that is going to stop you, even with a Time Lord's Tardis.
By matter, I mean the physical body; the whole body; not just the one that exists here and NOW, but the totality of it that has existed in the past, the present and the future. That body.
To borrow a SF author's idea, in a short-story (which one, I can't remember; so, don't sue me, pls) ...if you subscribe to the hypothesis that time is a dimension; the fourth dimension, then we (humans) exist physically in height, width, depth and in time.
We can measure the height, width and depth of that body in the 3rd dimensional world, and we measure it's progress in time by counting its age.
Say you could see that complete temporal body?
Say an average human male, when he died was 6'1", 225lbs and 85 years long, that is: his form stretched from his infant beginnings through time, to his life's end at 85. That form in continuity, if you could see it in the 4th dimension, would appear like a long snake, starting out small 85 years ago, growing and thickening over time, then ceasing to exist 85 years later.
Sure, that's simplistic, when the real thing would be more like a life-long capture of stroboscopic motion like in 'Nude Descending a Staircase';
...but you get the idea.
How are you going to transport that body, that whole body through time?
Fuggedabout how for now; when we transport people through space, that is, through three dimensions, we do so by only moving the present form. We have not cut off the person from their past.
To send someone to another time would involve cutting them off from their temporal body.
If we were to send the present being to the past ...then the temporal snake would have an ending in the time continuum, a point where it ceased to exist ...and it would die. Try to send the being to the future, and it would be cut off from its past/its beginning ...and it would never had existed.
The time snake can not be cut without killing it.
I assert that we, as temporal beings could not survive Time Travel!
Among the amazing technological feats that are just waiting for us to discover; Interstellar Space drives, Teleportation, Micro-wave Burritos that are actually Tasty and don't fry the Tongue's Taste Buds ...
You'll find Time Travel as a matter of course, since the earliest days of Humanity's speculation, on 'What could be'. We'll get to it eventually- Man dreamt of Flight, Cameros and Take-out Chicken, until ultimately he made them a reality; so what's to stop him from Traveling through Time, someday?
Other than the fact that creating Time Paradoxes is bad form, and infringes on others civil temporal rights; there's the simple matter of transporting matter across timestreams that is going to stop you, even with a Time Lord's Tardis.
By matter, I mean the physical body; the whole body; not just the one that exists here and NOW, but the totality of it that has existed in the past, the present and the future. That body.
To borrow a SF author's idea, in a short-story (which one, I can't remember; so, don't sue me, pls) ...if you subscribe to the hypothesis that time is a dimension; the fourth dimension, then we (humans) exist physically in height, width, depth and in time.
We can measure the height, width and depth of that body in the 3rd dimensional world, and we measure it's progress in time by counting its age.
Say you could see that complete temporal body?
Say an average human male, when he died was 6'1", 225lbs and 85 years long, that is: his form stretched from his infant beginnings through time, to his life's end at 85. That form in continuity, if you could see it in the 4th dimension, would appear like a long snake, starting out small 85 years ago, growing and thickening over time, then ceasing to exist 85 years later.
Sure, that's simplistic, when the real thing would be more like a life-long capture of stroboscopic motion like in 'Nude Descending a Staircase';
...but you get the idea.
How are you going to transport that body, that whole body through time?
Fuggedabout how for now; when we transport people through space, that is, through three dimensions, we do so by only moving the present form. We have not cut off the person from their past.
To send someone to another time would involve cutting them off from their temporal body.
If we were to send the present being to the past ...then the temporal snake would have an ending in the time continuum, a point where it ceased to exist ...and it would die. Try to send the being to the future, and it would be cut off from its past/its beginning ...and it would never had existed.
The time snake can not be cut without killing it.
I assert that we, as temporal beings could not survive Time Travel!