Tonight I have a thought that I just can’t seem to suppress. A few days ago a meme came up on my Facebook feed. The meme asked what super power you would choose and one of the choices was time travel. I began to think about all the science fiction stories on t.v. and in books as well as movies and how they depicted time travel. Normally they accelerate the subject and the surrounding environment freezes. (Except for Dr. Who, he just vanishes with a psychedelic whirring noise. ) I have a slightly different concept. I think that time travel would require one to leave time-space completely and reenter at the destination point. It’s a concept that I came up with while working on a science fiction story. The complicated part would be that time isn’t really a specific quantity and destiny isn’t fixed. Our destiny is a result of our choices and our choices are influenced by our past experiences. Therefore, a time traveler who exited time-space would have to choose between infinite possible futures and perceive infinite past choices that were never made. The quote that applies is “Good decisions come from experience and experience comes from bad decisions.” (Which is attributed to so many people that I’m not sure who actually said it. ) The obvious temptation for our time traveler would be to go back and correct the mistakes of the past. But in doing so he would prevent the experience of future and therefore gain no wisdom. Of course being outside time-space he would have all of eternity to explore the possibilities without any effect on the present. Perhaps the lesson he would learn would be to leave well enough alone and let things happen naturally. He would learn how important his past mistakes were and why he must learn from them.
This would be interesting.
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Thank you ❤ I have really spent a lot of thought on it.
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This calls for a thesis, but I don’t have time. It has me.
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Exactly 😀
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Oo, that is the message in the film The Butterfly Effect. I normally hate time travel films, but I loved that film. About Time is a wonderful romantic film on time travel. All other ones are insanely boring… that includes Prisoner of Azkaban.
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I honestly have not seen any of these films. Perhaps I’ll have some time to binge watch before the summer is over. 😀
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Amazing films! About Time doesn’t have a proper plot but… ah, it’s lovely, so romantic. The Butterfly Effect made me cry so much. So much tragedy, so much.
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you nailed it …. the reality of time travelling. by the way where is your sci fic story
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I’ve had place it on hold for a while ( like many of my projects 😯) when it comes down to it I only have a about an hour or so per day to devote to either writing or photos.
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wait is long ……. 😦
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Yes it is. My life is kinda like running down an icy hill. If I try to slow down I’ll whipe out completely. It’s only once I get to the bottom of the hill that I will be able to slow down and catch up. 😥
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Awww…. i’ll wait then 🙂
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ThaThank you 😀
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I love this. Learning to go with the flow. Accepting what is and was, whilst taking responsibility for shaping what is to come. With gratitude.
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Thank you Thia ❤ I lay away at night thinking about these things.
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That’s why you can write. I found a wonderful passage by Nietszche recently: about reading and writing. May build a post around it…. but true love is distracting me from blogging!
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I’m so happy for you! ❤
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