sitting here at work i realized something incredible. let me share (ill ktry to keep it short and simple):
i am a graphic designer, and so i work on Ads, and Photos, etc. My main program is Adobe Photoshop. Now in this program (for those not familiar) there is a *neat* tool called the "History Pallet". Inside this History Pallet it has EVERY SINGLE THING you have done to your picture, all Listed in chronological order, the top being the beggining.
Now, u might say "so what?" well here's the "so what" ~
with the history pallet, i can go back to a previous action i did, and it will momentarilly REVERT to that point. It will show me how the picture was at that point on my screen. NOW- heres the good part. From THAT POINT, I CAN CREATE A NEW DOCUMENT FROM THAT STATE OF THE PICTURE. Now i have the picture TWICE... but listen to this- The original Picture Still contains all of the commands up to the current point (before we backed up) - while the new document has started its own history pallet starting from the duplicated state.
now, ignore that i even said this was adobe photoshop, and it sounds exactly like parrallel universes in which we are discussing.
Basically what im trying to say is that going back in time creates alternate timelines, but i feel they are STILL closely connected, such as the voltage analogy KMG brought to our attention.
kmg - the voltage comparison is VERY WORTHY of this discussion. Good Observation there...
so to try and tackle this thread, i think using comparisons is the only way to kind of 'imagine' what would happen in these situations.
the only things i have concluded are
-traveling back in time would cause you to dissapear from your present.
-traveling back in time would cause history to be re-written.
-if this is possible, then u must accept the fact that if indeed backwards time travel is possible, it therefore must create alternate 'universes' or 'timelines', simple because we are still here right now.
now, things i have conjured up in my mind are as follows:
- humans arent meant to travel back in time- they will get lost for good.
- spiritual beings may be able to transverse in time, for 2 main reasons:
a) they are nothing physical, and need not follow the laws of energy/mass or whatever
b) since theyre NOT physical, they cannot interfere with the past(or present or future, for that matter) directly, only in-directly
- there are many paths of time, or 'timeline' as kmg so nicely put it
a) there is a main Line, i would say it extends forward in a pretty straight line.
b) this line is made up of everyones life (everyone's "time") , and it is intertwined very carefully.
c) if one were to travel back in time, their "thread" so to speak would rip, and unravel, meaning it would start to stray from the main time line "rope".
now, heres something i just realized while writing that:
what if, based on my loose analogy, a time traveller went back in time, picture this:
His thread of time breaks loose from the main timeline, picture a thread of a heavy rope that is stray (much like a split end in hair)
NOW- where the thread ripped is exactly the point in time when he "jumped in the time machine" (or insert your own ideas there) meaning the point he exited the present.
LETS SAY you grab this end, the tip of the ripped thread, and you BENT IT BACKWARDS (downwards, if the timeline was going straight up) and bent it back and put it into the main time-line rope at a previous time?
a revelation i just had... strange... but If i were to accept this idea i just made into a theory, it would seem that it creates one regulation:
-if a person's thread rips off (he decided to time travel) - it can only be bent backwards, simply because the thread cannot stretch itself to reach a further point in the main time line.
this is a pickle, because up untill this point i was under the impression that travelling Backward in time was IMPOSSIBLE (for humans), while travelling forward into the future is Possible(for humans).
but its only an analogy and i shouldnt take it too literal.
eep! sorry i tried to keep it short!
i am a graphic designer, and so i work on Ads, and Photos, etc. My main program is Adobe Photoshop. Now in this program (for those not familiar) there is a *neat* tool called the "History Pallet". Inside this History Pallet it has EVERY SINGLE THING you have done to your picture, all Listed in chronological order, the top being the beggining.
Now, u might say "so what?" well here's the "so what" ~
with the history pallet, i can go back to a previous action i did, and it will momentarilly REVERT to that point. It will show me how the picture was at that point on my screen. NOW- heres the good part. From THAT POINT, I CAN CREATE A NEW DOCUMENT FROM THAT STATE OF THE PICTURE. Now i have the picture TWICE... but listen to this- The original Picture Still contains all of the commands up to the current point (before we backed up) - while the new document has started its own history pallet starting from the duplicated state.
now, ignore that i even said this was adobe photoshop, and it sounds exactly like parrallel universes in which we are discussing.
Basically what im trying to say is that going back in time creates alternate timelines, but i feel they are STILL closely connected, such as the voltage analogy KMG brought to our attention.
kmg - the voltage comparison is VERY WORTHY of this discussion. Good Observation there...
so to try and tackle this thread, i think using comparisons is the only way to kind of 'imagine' what would happen in these situations.
the only things i have concluded are
-traveling back in time would cause you to dissapear from your present.
-traveling back in time would cause history to be re-written.
-if this is possible, then u must accept the fact that if indeed backwards time travel is possible, it therefore must create alternate 'universes' or 'timelines', simple because we are still here right now.
now, things i have conjured up in my mind are as follows:
- humans arent meant to travel back in time- they will get lost for good.
- spiritual beings may be able to transverse in time, for 2 main reasons:
a) they are nothing physical, and need not follow the laws of energy/mass or whatever
b) since theyre NOT physical, they cannot interfere with the past(or present or future, for that matter) directly, only in-directly
- there are many paths of time, or 'timeline' as kmg so nicely put it
a) there is a main Line, i would say it extends forward in a pretty straight line.
b) this line is made up of everyones life (everyone's "time") , and it is intertwined very carefully.
c) if one were to travel back in time, their "thread" so to speak would rip, and unravel, meaning it would start to stray from the main time line "rope".
now, heres something i just realized while writing that:
what if, based on my loose analogy, a time traveller went back in time, picture this:
His thread of time breaks loose from the main timeline, picture a thread of a heavy rope that is stray (much like a split end in hair)
NOW- where the thread ripped is exactly the point in time when he "jumped in the time machine" (or insert your own ideas there) meaning the point he exited the present.
LETS SAY you grab this end, the tip of the ripped thread, and you BENT IT BACKWARDS (downwards, if the timeline was going straight up) and bent it back and put it into the main time-line rope at a previous time?
a revelation i just had... strange... but If i were to accept this idea i just made into a theory, it would seem that it creates one regulation:
-if a person's thread rips off (he decided to time travel) - it can only be bent backwards, simply because the thread cannot stretch itself to reach a further point in the main time line.
this is a pickle, because up untill this point i was under the impression that travelling Backward in time was IMPOSSIBLE (for humans), while travelling forward into the future is Possible(for humans).
but its only an analogy and i shouldnt take it too literal.
eep! sorry i tried to keep it short!