Art of Time and Space Travel

Written by Martin Dolan

With time travel, change is everywhere... Anywhen is possible.

I travel to other times and places
Stars are born, planets form, grow, and in what seems like the blink of an eye, life may take pride of place clinging to their surface. Some life learns to spread its wings and even reach out for the stars.

Even these civilisations come and go. Every civilisation has its time to shine.
Its Art and culture.

Its moment of glory.
These moments are never lost however, and exist in time.

Time is a complex tapestry, of every choice that could, would, and will be, every possibility exists.
Remember that choice you made this morning just after you woke up? Yes, that one.
What if you chose the other option? What would be different now?

There are infinite realities for every single particle in the universe, and every particle exists at every possible location in the universe. Basic Quantum physics.

The Art of Time Travel was once said to be impossible, because if you were to invent time travel, then go back in time and kill your great grandfather before your father was born, your father would not exist, and in turn, you would never be born. So there would be no one to invent time travel or murder your grandfather!

Time travel however is possible, albeit, with some limitations.
When you travel back or forward in time, you actually travel to other ‘realities’ or versions of your reality/universe.
So even if you were to meet your ‘grandfather’ it wouldn’t actually be YOUR grandfather, but another ‘version’ of your grandfather from another reality. Even if you did kill him, you would still exist, because the grandfather in YOUR reality was not killed.

Time Travel and the Plate of Spaghetti.

Imagine your life or time line as long string of spaghetti. And you are a molecule of sauce on that spaghetti.
You are moving from one end of the spaghetti to the other. That is analogous to moving forward in time. Everyone is moving forwards in time, and ignoring some exceptions we won’t go into right now, everyone can ONLY travel forward. The speed at which you travel is the rate of one second per second.
You cannot travel backwards.

Now let’s imagine your string of spaghetti is on a huge plate with an infinite number of other strings of spaghetti. These other strings would represent ‘alternate’ versions of your universe.
If you jumped off your string of spaghetti, and landed on another string of spaghetti, you would land in a different position either further up or further down the NEW string of spaghetti. This means that you have actually travelled in time either forwards or backwards.

You need to keep in mind however that you are now on a totally different string of spaghetti. If you landed further back, (back in time) things might be ‘different’ to how you remember them in your past, and that is because you are on a different string of spaghetti. So it’s not actually your past you are looking at. It’s someone else’s past - The Alternate version of you.
Also, if you did anything there in that past, when you travelled back to your original string of spaghetti, you would arrive in the exact place from where you left. None of the things you did would have happened on this string, because they happened on another totally different string of spaghetti.

Does that make sense? Are you getting hungry with all this talk about spaghetti?

Once it was realised that time travel functioned this way, it made things a lot easier. There were no need to ‘rip holes’ in the fabric of space and time as previously imagined - Which scientists correctly hypothesised would take an enormous and somewhat impractical amount of energy.

The Art of Time Travel was born...

If we go back to the spaghetti example used previously, if you are a molecule of sauce on your string of spaghetti, to travel to another string, all you have to do is break the ‘surface tension’ of the sauce on your string, and you will inevitably end up on another string.

In a nutshell, time travel consists of these steps:

Breaking the ‘surface tension’ of your time line/reality so you drop away from it.
Giving yourself a push in either direction of ‘forwards’ or ‘backwards’
When you have travelled the required distance, latch on to another time line and drop in.

Returning is easier as you simply need to ‘push off’ from the foreign time line, and you will be drawn back to the original time line to the exact place you left.

This is because when you left your original time line, there was still a very thin connection retained, which stretches out to the new time line. It is back along this connection you travel.

It is also this connection that prevents you entering your original time line at any other point (before or after) you left, thus preventing any paradoxes.

Limitations of Time Travel

In effect this means that you cannot go back and ‘change’ anything, as everything has already happened / going to happen, and you would be ‘changing’ it in another reality anyway.

It also means that you can not go forwards and ‘predict’ anything either. If you went forward and saw what next weeks lotto numbers were, they would be the lotto numbers in another reality. Which means they may or may not be the lotto numbers that are going to come up in YOUR reality. So using them would be just as much a gamble as any other numbers.

You might be thinking...

"So what's the bloody point?"

The Art of Time travel does however make for great sight seeing, exploring, and expanding your mind.

That is why I travel and bring things back for others to enjoy.

Tags: Technology Time Travel Space Exploration Transport