Time Travel

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Originally Posted by devonin

Time is the context for understanding all of these phenomena. Cells only "die" because we can watch them go from being alive to being not alive. The stringing together of what would otherwise be a series of still states is "time" which I feel, as it seems to many others in various scientific fields, is a dimension like any other.

Yes, all the cells of our bodies are decaying over time. Not only are they dying, they are passing from one state to another, to another, and so forth, from the moment they start to be (the end of mythosis) to the moment they die. But all cells are individually changing, and not bound by a same "force". We just percieve "time" as a single force because it affects everything around us without any exceptions, but all in all, it's just separate cases which obey the laws of physics and chemisty and thus seem to humans as bound by a single driving force which causes all these changes. It thus cannot be bent, because that would imply affecting every single of these changes at the same moment.

The reason why you can bend a steel bar is because all molecules are linked together (I'm no physics specialist) and when you move one in space, applying a pressure it drives the others along, etc, and you've bent matter. But you can't do that with "time".

I'm not sure if I'm being really clear here.