05-23-2003, 10:07 PM
Consider this -- if time travel were to be discovered, at ANY TIME from now until the end of time...
why hasn't anyone from the future come back?
- Some folks have suggested that the "Greys" (the aliens that abduct people and carry out notorious anal probe experiments) are actually highly evolved human beings who have travelled back in time, for whatever reason. I think its a neat idea.
Concerning time (travel) and all that goes with it - I believe that the human race's entire concept of time is probably off - linear existence has the boundary of its own composition. The way we interperet the universe is limited by our ability to comprehend it (for instance - there is only so much of the light spectrum we can see with the naked eye, and then only so much we can detect with the aid of technology - that doesn't mean that that's all there is, or even that light exists the way we percieve it to). Why then, should our interpertation of time be any different? Its very likely that our tools (science, mathematics) are limited simply because they exist in the 3rd (er... 4th) dimension.
Wasn't long ago that we thought the sun orbitted the earth - we should allow the same gigantic margin for error in our current thinking. While I do have faith in the work of Stephen H, and take great interest in what he and his constituents are doing to smoke out the truth about our reality, its possible everything we've 'proven' so far is absolutley false.
People are flawed that way with everything - from fashion to fusion - we think that whatever the current crest of the wave is now is the truth. The prisoners in Plato's cave are no different.
I don't think we've even begun to comprehend the truth. ...but please - I'm no pessimist here - what I say is actually very exciting.
For me, anyway. :)
why hasn't anyone from the future come back?
- Some folks have suggested that the "Greys" (the aliens that abduct people and carry out notorious anal probe experiments) are actually highly evolved human beings who have travelled back in time, for whatever reason. I think its a neat idea.
Concerning time (travel) and all that goes with it - I believe that the human race's entire concept of time is probably off - linear existence has the boundary of its own composition. The way we interperet the universe is limited by our ability to comprehend it (for instance - there is only so much of the light spectrum we can see with the naked eye, and then only so much we can detect with the aid of technology - that doesn't mean that that's all there is, or even that light exists the way we percieve it to). Why then, should our interpertation of time be any different? Its very likely that our tools (science, mathematics) are limited simply because they exist in the 3rd (er... 4th) dimension.
Wasn't long ago that we thought the sun orbitted the earth - we should allow the same gigantic margin for error in our current thinking. While I do have faith in the work of Stephen H, and take great interest in what he and his constituents are doing to smoke out the truth about our reality, its possible everything we've 'proven' so far is absolutley false.
People are flawed that way with everything - from fashion to fusion - we think that whatever the current crest of the wave is now is the truth. The prisoners in Plato's cave are no different.
I don't think we've even begun to comprehend the truth. ...but please - I'm no pessimist here - what I say is actually very exciting.
For me, anyway. :)
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"A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men." - W Wonka
The Flying Booyaka and The Legend of Bonesnap
"A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men." - W Wonka
The Flying Booyaka and The Legend of Bonesnap