Yes, I think it's very possible that we are visiting ourselves or future peoples are doing so.
Anyone here watch Doctor Who? I just love how that show works and think that perhaps there are some theories involved in it as far as time travel
goes. For instance, the Doctor mentions different sorts of events. There are those that are 'supposed to happen' and ones that are not. Perhaps by
simply going back in time, you open a void in which allows for external forces(not just the time travelers) to change what we know as 'the past'. Like
we see in Doctor Who, it then becomes the Doctors duty to thwart said problem. Also, on these time travel threads, the paradox of going back into time
is brought up, but rarely do we talk about traveling into the future. If travel into the future is possible, but means that time is a straight line,
that when things happen, it alters that line all the way up till the end of time(if there is an end). So, if that is so, wouldn't travel either way
cause ripples?
Plus, you have a lot of people who believe in the butterfly effect, which means if you cut a blade of grass, then there might not be a tsunami that's
supposed to be, or there might be an extra volcanic erruption. The problem with this theory is that it actually works against a cause and effect
universe. Why? Because cause and effect universes work in the theory of ripples, like water. For instance, if you go back in time and blow up the
Earth, that will cause a massive ripple because there is so much life that was, but never will be and other beings that met, who never will meet.
Sounds pretty basic. However, what does killing a butterfly do? Well, it feeds on nectar and is sometimes consumed by other insects, birds, amphibians
and the rare primate. What you will find is that catapillers are more important to the world than butterflies because they don't hold a solid base in
the food chain and one less butterfly won't really affect much. Why am I talking about butterflies? Because that's what the butterfly effect first
referred to, is that by killing a butterfly, you could cause future Tsunami's. Now, I don't claim to know everything, but 'future' can be define as
tomorrow or any time. I don't think the butterfly effect assumes that we don't live in a cause and effect universe, because believing a butterfly
dying can cause a natural disaster is kind of like saying 'step on a crack, break your mothers back'. So, what was the importance of all that? Well,
if you time travel and are educated enough to distinguish between changes which will change everything and changes which will change some things, but
not much, then you've got it under control.
Back to Doctor Who for a moment. TARDIS. Time and Relative Dimention in Space. Most people I talk to identify the Doctor's TARDIS as a 'time machine'.
That's actually wrong. While it can travel in time, time is not it's only function. It also travels in space at the same time. Can anyone say it with
me? Tah tel tela telaportation machine. Yes indeed. 'It disapears here and reappears somewhere else, you wouldn't understand'. Not to mention that the
TARDIS is huge, but small. The newer seasons do it no justice by only showing the time machine/telaportation machine area, but it's huge, yet it fits
in a small police box. What do we know of in science that involves volume and other angles being different than would seem? Dimensions, my friends.
Look in other shows which have dimensions... they just mysteriously walk into something which cannot be seen and appear to vanish into thin air. But
they aren't. They are going in through the door of the dimension which is open. If you have always been in the same room, you will have no idea that
beyond a door can be things which are not just as narrow and small as the door, but a whole world. So then, if your time machine is also a
teleportation device, you will need to understand the coordinate system, which with enough brain power, you could. (therefore the turn of the earth or
rotation of the earth or any other heavenly body would not be an issue) If your time machine is a separate dimension in itself then it is exempt from
time's influence.
Lastly, people. Why is it that when we talk about time travel, we automatically assume they are just dumb as hell morons who stumbled upon the
technology? Do you think that people who are able to build and wrap their whole minds around something of the caliber I just laid out would be a
complete idiot? Beyond that, let's talk about how time travel would affect the person(people) who travel. Again from Doctor Who, people who travel in
time are never the same. Not only because it's an incredible experience and they are changed in that way, but because they are now exept from things
that others are not because they are not singular creatures. What does this mean? When you live in 2010 and you go back to 10A.D, you have two
existences. One in 2010 and one in 10. How do you have two existences? Because people from 10 existed in 10. People in 2010 existed in 2010. By 11,
you can't change the fact that you existed in 10 and by 2011 you can't change the fact that you existed in 2010. Regardless of if your remembered or
you leave noticeable affects, those are only human concepts. You broke the barrier and added another person to a time you did not originate from. Not
only that, but you are multi-dimensional because you have existed in your own dimension and in the TARDIS. You separate yourself from a forward linear
timeline when you travel in time. If you go back in time, you can actually meet yourself because you played a part in that timeline. You now have two
existences. One which is playing out it's part on the timeline because it is solidifide(because future events don't change past events, it's the other
way around) and another which is exempt from time and lives outside of it's boundaries. If you can go back in time and see yourself, as long as you
don't kill your other self, you will have two existences. Otherwise, you will then have one. Even if you were to meet your other self and change their
beliefs, they are still playing out an alternative version of your life and even if they decided not to do what they did to get two existences, it
does not create an unbreakable paradox because you in yourself become exept from the change because you are living on two timelines. Yours and yours.
Hope this wasn't too confusing and truly we won't know until someone tries it, unless they already have. Good day.
Mr. Dalton
edit on 10-10-2010 by Mr. Dalton because: (no reason given)