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Time travelling in \'The Phantom Menace\'.
I'm sorry, this actually has nothing to do with Episode 1, but it got your attention, so please read on..
Here is a slightly ironic thought..
One of the problems associated with understanding the possible effects of 'phsically' time travelling, is that 'time' is the creation of our limited perspective of the universe.
However, here is a very ironic thought..
You would think that the problem lies with our inabilty to percieve the past, present and future as one complete whole. This generally raises these questions..
The past has already happened to us, so how can you revisit it?
The future has not yet happened to us, so how can it exist for us to visit it?
Here's the irony. We can perceive, the past and the future, because we are able to ask questions about them..they are not beyond our imagined perception. What we cannot perceive is what we automatically take for granted...THE PRESENT.
Try to imagine what we perceive as the present...it doesn't effectively exist..we can't perceive it.
As soon as your brain tries to contemplate what is occurring at any given current instant, that point is in the past. No matter how quickly your brain operates, you can never perceive time in the present.
There is no length of time that can be called the present. We can only percieve an event that has already occurred to us, or one that has not. There is a point that we cannot perceive that is the divider between what we perceive as the past and the future.
To our perspective, there is a past and a future with nothing in between.
THE END.
I'm sorry, this actually has nothing to do with Episode 1, but it got your attention, so please read on..
Here is a slightly ironic thought..
One of the problems associated with understanding the possible effects of 'phsically' time travelling, is that 'time' is the creation of our limited perspective of the universe.
However, here is a very ironic thought..
You would think that the problem lies with our inabilty to percieve the past, present and future as one complete whole. This generally raises these questions..
The past has already happened to us, so how can you revisit it?
The future has not yet happened to us, so how can it exist for us to visit it?
Here's the irony. We can perceive, the past and the future, because we are able to ask questions about them..they are not beyond our imagined perception. What we cannot perceive is what we automatically take for granted...THE PRESENT.
Try to imagine what we perceive as the present...it doesn't effectively exist..we can't perceive it.
As soon as your brain tries to contemplate what is occurring at any given current instant, that point is in the past. No matter how quickly your brain operates, you can never perceive time in the present.
There is no length of time that can be called the present. We can only percieve an event that has already occurred to us, or one that has not. There is a point that we cannot perceive that is the divider between what we perceive as the past and the future.
To our perspective, there is a past and a future with nothing in between.
THE END.