Let's Talk About "Time Travel"

[Ninurta]

Time travel----- there is a problem that I would like to ask you all.
In my mind its possible to travel back in time because that time has already happened, but how can one travel forward in time ??
To travel forward in time means that time is all ready there and that everything is predetermined, if that is so it sort of makes life pointless

Time as we see it from our perspective, as a linear thing, does not exist. All "time" exists all at once, all at the same "time". Each instant, past present and future, all exist simultaneously. They are slightly out of phase with one another so that we cannot see the next or the previous one until we are in phase with it. From our physical perspective, we experience each phase shift as a linear progression, and we call that "time passing".

It's a bit like the illusion presented by a motion picture - each frame is still, a vignette of sorts, but if we experience the frames in a rapid succession, we get the illusion of motion and the passage of "time". It's a little like that illustration, except in 4 dimensions (if we conceive of "phase" as a dimension) instead of just two.

To make matters worse, and more complicated, there are multiple "timelines", and infinite multitude of potential "futures" (and "pasts", from the perspective of those alternate "futures"). For every potential outcome of every possible action in every instant, there is a "future" potential. Every event, from the smallest to the largest, spawns off another "timeline" in which the consequences of that choice/action play out. Everything that CAN happen, ever, IS happening right now in this instant - but out of phase from what we can see.

Science has done experiments that indicate that many people can see 6 to 12 seconds into the future. There is speculation that is the cause of some "deja vous" incidents, and why some people seem to have phenomenal reaction time. I personally believe that we cannot generally see any farther due to the confusion presented by the infinite timelines. When a "psychic" looks into the future, they are seeing a potential, but there is no guarantee that the individual they are fortune telling for will move down the particular timeline they are looking at.


So, life matters because the choices we make will determine which timeline we progress along, and there are infinite possibilities.

Scientists do not understand time for the most part because they are looking at it wrong. They do not actually understand the nature of time, because they are trying to force it to be a dimension, like height length and width, and it is not. Blame Einstein (and his erroneous conception of "spacetime") for that. I believe "phase" is the 4th dimension, not time, and time is the resulting totality of the 4 dimensions interacting, not a dimension itself.

That explanation is grossly oversimplified, but it's about as close as I can get, because I'm a gross simpleton.

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