Time Travel

[Bynary Fission]

Alright, I came up with this thought spontaneously while getting a shower, and I had to discuss it further. This is solely an opinion, so please don't take it as me proclaiming it as fact.

People say that time travel, if ever possible, will be strictly in the past, because the future hasn't happened. Many believe that time travel will be possible, given the exploitation and harnessing of quantum physics. But, after what I thought, it hasn't happened and never will happen. Lets say that by 2040 we invented a time machine that is capable of transporting a person across the time-space continuum somehow, someway. After a few years of clearances and debate, it was cleared for use, and a few technologically advanced individuals (referring to the equipment they carried) went back 100 years to try and stop the Holocaust. Wouldn't they have done it already? Ahh, but that presents a paradox. How can you go back in time, when in 1940 technically you would have come from the future, which hasn't happened at that time? I will go in-depth on this.

Lets say you went back to the year 1900. You entered through some way, perhaps a wormhole created by manipulating quantum foam at the Planck length (Given we had instruments that precise), or the disassembling of you at the molecular level and reappearing at a different place in the space-time continuum. Then, once you enter, somebody will probably notice you. That's an issue, isn't it? But lets say you weren't stupid enough to transport to a public facility. Then, what happens? You just came from the future, but the future hasn't supposedly happened yet. Then how did you come to the era you did? Mind boggling isn't it. Perhaps it is akin to the dream paradox.

Many people have dreams that supposedly predict something in the future or remember something in the past that you never experienced. The future predictions seem to come true many times. They say that when we are awake, we are on a vertical position on the time-space continuum. We cannot teleport, nor can we jump back and forth in time. We are always in the present, never in the past or future. We are static. But when you dream, we are said to switch from being vertical to being horizontal. We can teleport. We can jump to any time we want. If we want to defy physics, go ahead. If you want to create a world out of nothing, do it. You can literally do everything in a dream. So why do we say we are limited to one side of the time-space continuum?

To address my original statement, if we had invented a time machine, we'd already have people coming from the future to us. If we went back to 1900, then we came from the future. But if it isn't written, then why did we come from the "unwritten future"? It's already been written, at least in my opinion. You can made decisions, yes. But maybe you are destined to make that decision. After all, if somebody made a time machine, they'd already be here. Since we came from the future when they teleported back, so would they. So, maybe we live on one part of the infinite time-space continuum. We only see a small part of it, and the body we are born in is the universe's, or even God's way (Depending on how you see him; I don't see him as some big guy in Heaven but I do believe in God, just not in a theological sense) of just showing you the time that we're in, and you play out the person you were assigned to be. Humans can affect the world around them, but we can't affect that which is beyond that, such as time. Time dilation does not count (That acts on physics). If an infinite amount of time exists ahead of us, why did nobody come back to the past and try and change something, such as killing Hitler to try and stop the Holocaust. Because one was never invented. There are many proposed reasons why I believe that time machines will never be invented.

Even if you have good intentions, you will screw things up irreparably. Ever read the Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury? While other butterflies would take it's place, it makes a good point. If you do something in the past, it will exponentially increase over time. If you kill a man from 5000 BC, then the possibly billions of people who would come from him would never be born. Say the wife of that person married. Then the effect wouldn't be as bad. But say she didn't. Uh oh. You just screwed mankind for all eternity. Nice going. Another reason is that there are many corrupt, morally depraved people on Earth. Those who appear nice, like suck-ups and sycophants, are not who they appear to be. If they ever got such a privilege to use a time machine, woops. With his ultra-advanced technology, he could overthrow a government with it, especially if he has nanomachines (Maybe a killer version of gray goo ). And third. If time tourism becomes common, then the effects that they would have would be unimaginable. Mass tourism in any given area damages the flora and fauna. Extended amounts of time with this or ultra-heavy tourism would not only eradicate the beauty that brought people to the spot, but it would bring in.....mega corporations. Then you're in serious trouble. If you build something in the past, especially in large quantities, then jesus, who knows what that could do. And besides, who wants a McDonalds in 1850? Bleh. Four, ethical reasons. Hopefully man won't become like China, who has no respect for the environment or human life and exists under a brutal dictatorship without morals.

There was a man named Andrew who said he traveled from the year 2246 to make a fortune off the stock market with his future knowledge of it's trends. To be exact, he made a jaw-dropping 350 MILLION dollars in two weeks. He was investigated, where he made his case. No records of him were found before he appeared. If a man so selfish as to travel back in time, jeopardizing the time-space continuum for his personal wealth at the expense of others (Think of the people who potentially lost millions in investments become some cheat took their money by having a massive unfair advantage over them with his superior knowledge that should never have been there), then I fear the future. If cons like him would be allowed to do such a thing, then who knows what a dystopian future like that would hold. I'm not saying it is, but if people like him are allowed to go back in time for personal gain, then it must be. Maybe mankind is gone before one is invented.

To wrap up my post, I believe that everything happens for a reason. Time is set. It has to happen. But if you tamper with that and go back in time, you change the universe, possibly for the worse. Think of it this way. Lets say a critical line of code in a massive billion-dollar computer was not written right, and a typo was made. Just one typo. An insignificant bundle of pixels made up of 0s and 1s. That could cause a massive systemic failure. Then everything that depends on it shuts down. Then you've got an emergency, especially if it involves the government. Think of that person as the typo. You affect EVERYTHING that goes after it or depends on it. Should we become a Type III civilization, we would have the power to affect the universe itself. Time is not meant to be changed. But if you do...well, the universe if affected with it. Maybe very, ever so slightly, even infinitesimally, but affected nonetheless. If I am wrong, and a time machine is invented...lets just hope that in war, people don't use it to stop it from ever occurring. Maybe it needed to happen, like the American Revolution. Don't play God. As they say, a man's ego is the fragile thing in the universe. It's also as big as it. It needs to go down, possibly broken and humbled before we think we can play God and mess with things that were not meant to be touched.


~Bynary Fission