The laws of physics do not allow for backwards time travel. I know I know. What about Back to the Future, The Time Machine, Peggy Sue Got Married and Somewhere in Time, etc.? Yes, those were great movies but heavily flawed in the science and not to mention total fiction. Even today, some scientists still believe that one day time travel will be possible. It’s just a matter of figuring out the equation. Right? Einstein couldn’t prove it but if he was still alive today would he be any closer to the equation? I doubt it.
I’m no genius. Really. But I’ve given this time travel thing a lot of thought and I get the theory of bending space and worm holes – you know, all that shit no one can really prove. And, it used to make sense to me – well sort of anyway. How cool would it be to travel back in time and visit yourself and drop off some Cliff’s Notes on what’s ahead? Or travel back and bring forward evidence of any historical anomaly. Well, guess what? In order for that to happen, every living being would have to generate a duplicate self for that second in time.
So, let’s see: I would have roughly 5,387,400 duplicates of myself - and counting – locked in their individual second of time in a loop and never aging. If I was able to return to that second in history, not only would I see my selfs as I was for those seconds – one at a time of course, but then I would be generating more selfs for those same seconds I’ve already experienced. This is why time travel is not possible and will never be possible. I have only one self with one stream of consciousness. In fact, everyone just has one self.
My self began it’s life in 1969 and has lived day to day, hour to hour, second to second to get to this very point in time. There is no ‘back’ to return to because I am here in the present. The present is where we all live no matter if we’re asleep, fucked up, watching a movie, dead or eating dinner or pretending to be somewhere or someone else. And whose to say the self is duplicated every second. Maybe it’s supposed to happen every millisecond or microsecond. Regardless, the concept of time travel is ridiculous.
Lastly, the only thing that is infinite is time. Time keeps moving forward. But here is a thought: Is time only existing because humans defined it as so? The Earth is spinning while traveling in a circle around the Sun. That’s time – our time – human time.
