RainmanTime
Super Moderator
Sometimes humans "dream the right dreams" about WHAT will come to pass in the future, but those same dreams can be a bit fuzzy when it comes to describing HOW that future capability actually manifests itself in the physical realm. This is one reason I do not accept the John Titor story, as it does not fit with a more simple means for making cross-timeline connections.
What I am referring to is the prevailing hope/belief of humanity that one could physically transport their "body of now" through the Time dimension, and emerge at some other time in your same physical form. While this MAY actually come to pass someday in a distant future, I think it is unlikely to be the first means by which we connect with others in other times. If you accept the concept of fractals, and self-similarity, as also applicable to the Time dimension, then we might first accomplish the feat of "bridging two different timelines" by electromagnetic means.... or to put it another way, we would first COMMUNICATE with another timeline before we would actually try to physically travel there/then.
This all ties-in with the "self-similar" concept of fractals, but I don't want to get into that here. If you want more detail, let me know. However, our history of development in electronic communications can be a good pattern for predicting how we will continue to "engineer time" in the future. Again, I ask you to consider the self-similar relationships of the speed of SOUND and the speed of LIGHT, for herein lies the key to our future.
Before electronic communications that we have today (analog telephone was the real pioneer of realtime communications) we were limited by the speed of sound as the fastest mode of communication...i.e. yelling to someone across the fields. Other forms of communications had a MUCH bigger time lag...such as writing a letter to someone that had to be delivered across the United States by Pony Express. One could say that by evolving from Pony Express letter, to realtime analog telephone voice communications, to our current state of realtime digital voice/data communications....that we have literally engineered a different form of time, based upon how quickly humans can interact with one another.
In the 20th century we learned both how to break the sound barrier in flight, but also break the speed of sound with electronic communications. So we could call the 20th century the "age where we mastered the speed of sound." Now we are staring at the speed of light, and thinking the same (self-similar, fractal) thoughts: "It must be an impenetrable barrier". We are now beginning to learn that the speed of light is NOT an inviolatable barrier. And when we learn to communicate (and eventually travel) at speeds/frequencies in excess of the speed of light, we will advance to a new level of understanding of Time and our history.
What if our first travels in time were marked by people connecting their past lives with their current lives (a la a reincarnation philosophy actually becomes a technology of communication).
If you could readily communicate with yourself in an earlier timeline, what would you say to yourself?
Kind Regards,
RainmanTime
What I am referring to is the prevailing hope/belief of humanity that one could physically transport their "body of now" through the Time dimension, and emerge at some other time in your same physical form. While this MAY actually come to pass someday in a distant future, I think it is unlikely to be the first means by which we connect with others in other times. If you accept the concept of fractals, and self-similarity, as also applicable to the Time dimension, then we might first accomplish the feat of "bridging two different timelines" by electromagnetic means.... or to put it another way, we would first COMMUNICATE with another timeline before we would actually try to physically travel there/then.
This all ties-in with the "self-similar" concept of fractals, but I don't want to get into that here. If you want more detail, let me know. However, our history of development in electronic communications can be a good pattern for predicting how we will continue to "engineer time" in the future. Again, I ask you to consider the self-similar relationships of the speed of SOUND and the speed of LIGHT, for herein lies the key to our future.
Before electronic communications that we have today (analog telephone was the real pioneer of realtime communications) we were limited by the speed of sound as the fastest mode of communication...i.e. yelling to someone across the fields. Other forms of communications had a MUCH bigger time lag...such as writing a letter to someone that had to be delivered across the United States by Pony Express. One could say that by evolving from Pony Express letter, to realtime analog telephone voice communications, to our current state of realtime digital voice/data communications....that we have literally engineered a different form of time, based upon how quickly humans can interact with one another.
In the 20th century we learned both how to break the sound barrier in flight, but also break the speed of sound with electronic communications. So we could call the 20th century the "age where we mastered the speed of sound." Now we are staring at the speed of light, and thinking the same (self-similar, fractal) thoughts: "It must be an impenetrable barrier". We are now beginning to learn that the speed of light is NOT an inviolatable barrier. And when we learn to communicate (and eventually travel) at speeds/frequencies in excess of the speed of light, we will advance to a new level of understanding of Time and our history.
What if our first travels in time were marked by people connecting their past lives with their current lives (a la a reincarnation philosophy actually becomes a technology of communication).
If you could readily communicate with yourself in an earlier timeline, what would you say to yourself?
Kind Regards,
RainmanTime