To me time travel is tuning our mind to a different reality by willfully altering what we perceive. By this way one can travel back and forth between times once that ability is developed. A very pertinent question is what happens to the body and its environment when the mind moves to a different time? It is my hypothesis the ability to mentally transfer to a different time is the result of substantial evolution of the mind and when that state is attained the mind also acquires the ability to have multiple consciousness. Each conscious mind then takes care of the respective bodies with an intercommunication ability which may be in a different mode than consciousness. Just like one does not bump into another when in different space similarly one does not perceive those in a different time.
I first address the technical issues of time travel before answering the more philosophical question of why there is a need for time travel? The philosophical questions are intertwined with the scientific ones, as we will see later. With the way I described it, is time travel still afflicted by the paradoxes commonly attributed to it? For example consider the grandmother paradox where you go back to your past and kill your own grandmother. The paradox is resolved as follows. I assume that time travel produces a dynamic system that keeps changing through iterations. The fact that you existed in iteration “i†is perfectly compatible with the fact that you do not exist in the next iteration. However, you still exist in iteration i+1 in the past and if you want to revive the other self in i+2 you can go further back and undo what you did.
All this also implies that the intentions of one time traveler is not made impossible by the actions of some other time traveler. Thus it is necessary to assume that the time travelers themselves have a common purpose and act in a consistent manner. Now we come to the more philosophical question of why should there be time travel? The question has been partly answered before because we assumed that time travelers have a common objective.
Now we need to answer what would be that common objective.
To answer this we need to fall back on evolution which we see is favoring increasingly moral beings. To stretch it to its extreme we hypothesize that the logical end of evolution would be perfectly moral beings. Aligning it with the idea that the ability to time travel is also the result of evolution it is not difficult to conclude that there needs to be a backward loop because time travelers want to make the past also perfect. It may be because of the way the universe itself works going through cycles of degradation and self-correction.
I conclude that assuming the fact that the universe is driven by an objective I see that the notion of time travel becomes mandatory and also speculate that the time travelers may be existing physically in the very time we exist though it is not necessary. It is not necessary because it would seem that time travelers first chose their nearest point in time to travel and subsequently move to longer and longer points in time.
I first address the technical issues of time travel before answering the more philosophical question of why there is a need for time travel? The philosophical questions are intertwined with the scientific ones, as we will see later. With the way I described it, is time travel still afflicted by the paradoxes commonly attributed to it? For example consider the grandmother paradox where you go back to your past and kill your own grandmother. The paradox is resolved as follows. I assume that time travel produces a dynamic system that keeps changing through iterations. The fact that you existed in iteration “i†is perfectly compatible with the fact that you do not exist in the next iteration. However, you still exist in iteration i+1 in the past and if you want to revive the other self in i+2 you can go further back and undo what you did.
All this also implies that the intentions of one time traveler is not made impossible by the actions of some other time traveler. Thus it is necessary to assume that the time travelers themselves have a common purpose and act in a consistent manner. Now we come to the more philosophical question of why should there be time travel? The question has been partly answered before because we assumed that time travelers have a common objective.
Now we need to answer what would be that common objective.
To answer this we need to fall back on evolution which we see is favoring increasingly moral beings. To stretch it to its extreme we hypothesize that the logical end of evolution would be perfectly moral beings. Aligning it with the idea that the ability to time travel is also the result of evolution it is not difficult to conclude that there needs to be a backward loop because time travelers want to make the past also perfect. It may be because of the way the universe itself works going through cycles of degradation and self-correction.
I conclude that assuming the fact that the universe is driven by an objective I see that the notion of time travel becomes mandatory and also speculate that the time travelers may be existing physically in the very time we exist though it is not necessary. It is not necessary because it would seem that time travelers first chose their nearest point in time to travel and subsequently move to longer and longer points in time.
