Monday, April 18, 2005

Laughing Dog's Essay on Time Travel

Time travel is not impossible. I do it every day. The trick is how to go about qualifying the term. Some famous thinkers, like Einstein, determined time travel to be physically returning to a physical reality that has undergone a less amount of aging in the same relative amount of time as oneself. This is presumably the physical past. Supposedly, relying on this theory of relativity, this is a feasible method. It's something to do with the speed of light I believe, but the only theory of relativity I'm familiar with is to never hump any pups in the same litter. Others, like those involved in the Philidelphia Experiment and the Montauk Experiment, believe that time acts on a wave-length, and that every 40 years it makes a half-wave and returns to center, allowing us a brief gap in which we can jump back and forth (with the proper equipment). How many years does it take to make this proper equipment? You would think that passengers from the eventual future would've stopped by one of these days and helped us finish the equipment faster! Then there are those who say that to see into the past is a form of time travel. As in if we were to shoot out toward the edge of the galaxy faster than the speed of light, we would catch up to visual images that portrayed the happenenings of the past. I can't even catch up to a car yet. Anyhow, if it's that easy, then just by reading this essay, you are seeing what I wrote in the past, and you can consider this "traveling time." But why bother with all of this lengthy explanation? I tend to think that the past is locked up in my memories, and I can access it anytime I want to. All I have to do is think back to that last butt I sniffed, and I can relive it over and over again. Sometimes I even salivate just from the idea of it. The point is, the only way we can claim to belong to any time is through our perception of that particular reality. This means that wherever our mind rests, that is what is real to us at the time, and thus that becomes the time that we are existing in. There isn't a more efficient manner of time travel than to simply truly believe that you are there.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love how that dog makes everything about life seem so simple!

J. Montgomery Spencer said...

That's quite a philosophy coming from a creature that ages seven years for every one for the rest of humanity.

Anonymous said...

That's the most sense anything's ever made.