TheDesertFox
Temporal Novice
I think about going back in time, to say 1991, and going to my elementary school where I am 7, and it's just a weird feeling. I cannot imagine how bizarre it would be looking at myself when I am young, but not being able to know what I am "thinking" or "feeling" - even though it is me. It's like we are two different people, and we don't have a collective mind or thought.
It would be the strangest, most amazing feeling being in the past... it would be so truly bizarre walking into my old elementary school in 1991 with all the knowledge I had...
It's hard to articulate what it would feel like.
However, I feel that time travel into the past is almost definitely impossible.
Here's why, sorry for articulating myself so poorly, I really haven't had time to "organize my thoughts:"
1 - The argument that "then why aren't there time travellers among us" is pretty decent, I believe. It's safe to say that (at least I) never get ahold of a time machine and go back to my elementary school and talk to myself, because my current memory has no such recollection. However, this argument also may suggest that time is cyclical, or that it repeats itself infinitely. If I eventually go back in time to third grade, every moment in my life, every second, has a universe in which it is happening. If this holds true, there must also be universe where I am currently typing the "n" in happening in the last second. Two seconds later, there must be even another universe where the second I hit that N is currently existing.
Comprende?
2 - I like to think of time as more of a straight line. We can travel slower in time, so we can "travel into the future," but there is just no way to go back. Eventually, if we are lucky enough to get out of the solar system and set up a permanent base in other star systems or galaxies, we will probably get wiped out by the collapsing universe (although there is evidence to suggest it won't collapse. Most astronomers and scientists agree that a collapse is eventually inevitable, though). At that point, every thing, obviously, would be gone. Eventually, another universe almost exactly similar to this one will be born, even if it is 10000000^10000000000 decades later.
I'm not sure if I made a point. This would better be made into more than one topic...
It would be the strangest, most amazing feeling being in the past... it would be so truly bizarre walking into my old elementary school in 1991 with all the knowledge I had...
It's hard to articulate what it would feel like.
However, I feel that time travel into the past is almost definitely impossible.
Here's why, sorry for articulating myself so poorly, I really haven't had time to "organize my thoughts:"
1 - The argument that "then why aren't there time travellers among us" is pretty decent, I believe. It's safe to say that (at least I) never get ahold of a time machine and go back to my elementary school and talk to myself, because my current memory has no such recollection. However, this argument also may suggest that time is cyclical, or that it repeats itself infinitely. If I eventually go back in time to third grade, every moment in my life, every second, has a universe in which it is happening. If this holds true, there must also be universe where I am currently typing the "n" in happening in the last second. Two seconds later, there must be even another universe where the second I hit that N is currently existing.
Comprende?
2 - I like to think of time as more of a straight line. We can travel slower in time, so we can "travel into the future," but there is just no way to go back. Eventually, if we are lucky enough to get out of the solar system and set up a permanent base in other star systems or galaxies, we will probably get wiped out by the collapsing universe (although there is evidence to suggest it won't collapse. Most astronomers and scientists agree that a collapse is eventually inevitable, though). At that point, every thing, obviously, would be gone. Eventually, another universe almost exactly similar to this one will be born, even if it is 10000000^10000000000 decades later.
I'm not sure if I made a point. This would better be made into more than one topic...