Today, I was talking to Chris about the whole universe thing I wrote about a couple days ago. And she thought it was interesting because of the time aspect of it.
Then I had remembered some teacher back in high school talking about the fact that a great scientist (I don’t want to say Einstein because I am not sure) had this theory that all life was like playing a tape cassette. There is a stop button, a play button, a rewind button and a fast forward button. We on currently on play now, as I write, but humans still haven’t figured out how to use the rest of the buttons. So if this scientist, I guess, believed that we could make some way to go back in time or “press the rewind button” so to speak.
Then Chris (the smart person she is) put a thought out there that I didn’t think of in regards to time travel. She said that if life was like a tape playing, people would never be able to do time travel. If we press the rewind button, we (the intended time travelers) also rewind because we are a part of what is on the cassette. Therefore, we would lose knowledge of the idea and if we wanted to change anything, we couldn’t because we would go back to the mindset of the moment we wanted to change. Thus, we all make the same mistakes over and over again, no matter what.
Wow, I need to go pick a book on this stuff.
2 Comments
September 27, 2008 at 10:19 pm
Love the whole time travel discussion. It is possible. We just do not know how to control it yet.
September 27, 2008 at 10:40 pm
That’s interesting. I would like to here why you say it possible.