As a primer, here are some of my own personal thoughts and ideas on this popular, controversial, and timely (sorry about that) subject.
Time Travel
BJ Neblett
“Time is a function of observation.” BJ
Neblett
Each of us
exist in one specific timeline within a universe or dimension to which we belong. This
universe and timeline is our home-time. As we
move through time, (time travel) we move into one of any number
of parallel or non-parallel universes. Parallel universes contain either
parallel timelines
or non-parallel
time lines which may be similar, but
not necessarily identical to our own.
Parallel Universes/Dimensions
Parallel
time lines are those dimensions or universes which seem eerily like our
own. Upon first entering, one might think that they have not left their own
home-time. However, there almost always are small, and some not so minor
differences.
Non-parallel
time lines are also like our own but differ strikingly in that they are
experiencing a different passage of time from our own. While we may have left
New York City, Planet Earth in the 21st century, we may find
ourselves landing in New York City, Planet Earth in the 18th or 15th
century, or any other time passage, past or future. It is not that we have
traveled into their past or future, it is that what appears to us to be their
past or future, (their present) is happening
at the same time as our own present.
We can move
into one of these parallel universes, or dimensions, at any point
of present, past or future. While the universes may seem as our own, there is
one major difference: we are present only in our visitor sense.
This is not our home-time, therefore we are simply visitors, as one would
be traveling to a different country. We may encounter circumstances we are
familiar with, and persons we think we know. We may even meet persons we
recognize as our parents and other ancestors. However, we will be to them as
strangers, as this is their home-time, and not our own. Further, we may have a
basic knowledge of things which occurred in the past, or will occur in the
future (within this parallel universe's past or future). However, there will be
some subtle and some more striking changes and differences between our own
home-time and the one into which we have entered. This
is due at least in part to the results of cause and effect (causality).
So, can we
affect change? Yes... and no. Any interaction which we may purposely or
inadvertently commit while visiting this parallel universe or dimension,
will affect only this timeline, not our own home-time. When we return
to our own home-time, we will find simply that we have been gone for X
amount of time, although time elapsed in our home-time may be different from
the passage of time we observed while time traveling. For example, we may be
told that we have been gone from our home-time for several days, while our
watch, which traveled with us, may show only the passage of a few minutes or
seconds. The inverse of this effect is also true. But we have not affected
change to our home-time, except that some may have noted our absence. However,
conversely, any traveler capable of traveling from their
own home-time into our own, is capable of affecting
change within our home-time.
One
may think of time travel as a traveler visiting another
country. He may see sights familiar to him, but the people he
encounters will not know him. His actions will have effect, only within the place
he visits.
Non-Parallel
Universes/Dimensions
Non-parallel universes and dimensions are
those which exist completely independent and different from our own. Here we
may find physical laws completely alien to our own. Here the possibilities, differences
and similarities to our own universe are limitless. Here, as a visitor, we can
be capable of affecting change, casually or purposely. And, again, the apparent
passage of time may vary between the time traveler and his place of origin, his
home-time.
Any travel between non-parallel universes and dimensions
may or may not be construed as time travel. Skipping through dimensions without
an apparent change in time to the traveler is entirely possible; while, at the
same time, moving through time and
dimensions is equally possible.
If your an author, scientist, physicist, great thinker, or just have some views on time travel and alternate realities, come join the discussion!
