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I've always thought that if time travel were possible, you might not need a time machine at all. Assuming you believe in a soul and that time exists, that is that events that have happened can still be occurring or can be accessed by going back in time to them, you might be able to take your consciousness back to your body at an earlier time. If your soul is in your body, and your consciousness is tied along with it, its sort of forming a bridge. You could relive past events, possibly change history. I don't think you could change it permanently, that is if you went forward in time that future you had left would still be the same. But maybe not. Maybe you'd go back to a radically different future, if you went back. It's just a theory. The many movies with characters going back in time and find themselves in younger bodies is the same thing, its usually never explained how except by magic.
But I remember that one night on " Coast To Coast AM" with George Noory, they had a time travel "expert" who made it a point to say that exact theory was not possible and a machine or wormhole was needed. Was he just trying to throw us off the track, or was he a crackpot espousing one crackpot theory and pooh poohing another equally crackpot theory?
I've always thought that if time travel were possible, you might not need a time machine at all. Assuming you believe in a soul and that time exists, that is that events that have happened can still be occurring or can be accessed by going back in time to them, you might be able to take your consciousness back to your body at an earlier time. If your soul is in your body, and your consciousness is tied along with it, its sort of forming a bridge. You could relive past events, possibly change history. I don't think you could change it permanently, that is if you went forward in time that future you had left would still be the same. But maybe not. Maybe you'd go back to a radically different future, if you went back. It's just a theory. The many movies with characters going back in time and find themselves in younger bodies is the same thing, its usually never explained how except by magic.
But I remember that one night on " Coast To Coast AM" with George Noory, they had a time travel "expert" who made it a point to say that exact theory was not possible and a machine or wormhole was needed. Was he just trying to throw us off the track, or was he a crackpot espousing one crackpot theory and pooh poohing another equally crackpot theory?
Well, A and B and maybe C.
A: Arthur C. Clarke lightly touched on a similar concept in the story "All the time in the World". Sort of.
B: It is a concept I use in my fantasy life where another species are really immortal spirits that occasionally take corpus form. Since they are immortal, to travel, all they need to do is go up and down the line as they wish.
C: It does sound like, sort of, "Somewhere in Time".
A portal. Definitely! So there's no mistake, and some control over who goes where, to avoid the Grandfather Paradox. With a wrist implant coded to the portal to yank you back.
Christopher Reeve didn't bother with a device. He just used hypnosis to go back in time to meet Jane Seymour in 'Somewhere in Time.' Unfortunately it was a one-off.
Mr. Peabody and his boy Sherman used his way back machine to travel through time.
I think I would prefer a starship myself.
Last edited by Michael Way; 03-28-2015 at 10:19 AM..
I think I want my time machine built into a closet/wardrobe (ala Narnia) - you don't want to look like a dummy when you get there! It will automatically change your hairstyle and clothing to match the time period you're visiting, AND generate an ID and currency, if applicable.
In addition to time travel, it could transport you to any time or location in the universe (and safely get you back too)!
Something portable, although I wouldn't mind a sled speeding through a worm-hole.
I'm claustrophobic, so the idea of a capsule or small enclosure of any kind would not be good for me unless it zapped immediately.
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