Back in February of this year I started this blog by inviting you all on a trip through the looking glass. And we have traveled many places through the channels of my mind. Last week we did a mental U-turn and came back out ot the looking glass. This reminds me of the discussions, theories and dreams of time travel.
In the world of macro physics the arrow of time points inexoribly from past to future. That is you cannot unscramble an egg, nor can you put toothpaste back in the tube, at least in the way it came out. So then even if we could make a time machine then we could only travel from now to the future. BUT we would not be able to come back. Now in the world of the quantum this may not be so.
The results of the Large Hadron Collider(LHC) in the next year or so could very well provide evidence that the arrow of time could be reversed and allow travel not only back from the future but perhaps sideways as well as in the idea of parallel universes.
What if we could travel through time? Would you travel to the future to see what your present status has produced? For instance, see what the next big company is doing and buy in when it just starts up. Or if you are young and foolish or otherwise, would you later on be surrounded by a bunch of kids and your life be entirely home-bound? Of course you might like that and it would be just as you planned, but then again maybe it wouldn't.
We travel through time in those moments when we remember or even when we reminisce. We travel through time when we make future plans. But these are not actual physical actions.. our bodies don't come along on those trips. And next time I will tell you why.
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