Errant Thoughts and Stuff I Write

Time Travel Theory

How can we travel through time when time itself is just an idea? Just a way to track our lives?

I think that, to be able to achieve time travel, we have to fully understand the concept of time first. Time, at the moment, is based upon a system that humans created. It's just a bunch of numbers that change as the days go by. Now, you can't physically interact with time (unless you consider touching a clock interacting with time) but most people believe that, to interact with something, you have to be able to touch it. This is mostly true.

So how can we touch time?

Time travel is and isn't a foreign concept. It's been in movies and films and any sort of media and books for decades now, but no human to date has actually been able to do it, or figured out how. Now, I'm assuming that in the future, time travel is possible, but we're not in the future. We're in the now, the 21st century. So we don't currently have the technology to achieve what books and films have been depicting for years.

To touch time, it's my theory that we'd have to somehow bend reality, which could mean anything from magic to science of the highest degree, neither of which is possible at present. Time is just a concept, but there are many, many unexplainable mysteries that have happened in the world that people have just labelled as impossible and dismissed them, case closed. But what if (and I'm sorry for the 'what if') these mysteries are just reality bending?

Okay, so it's far fetched, yes. And from the looks of it, reality is the most stable structure to exist. But to survive an earthquake, a skyscraper has to bend. So if reality has the basic structure of a skyscraper, and something catastrophic were to happen in either this world or the next (don't even get me started on that), then reality would have to bend to absorb the shock.

We can't control the bending of and unseeable force, but that's why we just have to wait for an opportunity. An opportunity to harness the power.

What is reality then?

Reality is what we see everyday. It's whatever we touch, hear, see, smell, and taste. Reality is what exists right now, right here, that is visible and touchable. People, cars, buildings, air, pavement, things like that. Smells and sounds are air molecules and vibrations.

Some people think that reality could be some sort of palpable force field type thing that, like some sort of clay, can be touched and molded. The idea that you can bend what holds together the very fabric of time and space is insane. But who's to say that it's impossible? I don't know how to do it, obviously. I'm a ninth grader. People with better resources and more experience in this field and other scientific fields would be better equipped to educate you on this subject, but their minds are tainted. I am still free from the constriction of the imagination. So I'm giving it a go.

The only problem is that the people present at these unsolved sites of mysteries usually go missing without a trace, or they go insane. You can't ask them about it. Well, you can, but the chances are that the answer will be a bit convoluted.

The earth is behind in technological advancements. Behind what, you ask? Well, behind where we should be. I could say that there is life on other planets who are more technologically advanced than us, but I can't prove that. We are behind our own fantasies of where we should be.

Anyway, to bend reality, we would have to observe and recreate the circumstances under which the disappearances occurred. Which would be extremely difficult.

Now, if we were to achieve time travel, I'd like to think of it as, rather than moving through space and time (which I imagine would be like trying to swim through cured concrete), that you're moving space and time itself. A bubble, if you will, of matter surrounding your transport module.

Space and time are two entirely different concepts, however. Space is easy; zero gravity we can handle, and have done so. Time is a completely different thing altogether. You can't readily access time, and you'd have to have a ton of energy to make it. You'd have to harness a sun, a red giant, a white dwarf, whatever sort of star you could use.

We don't exactly have space down yet; we haven't even gone beyond the boundaries of our own solar system. And time, we probably won't be able to do that for a hundred years. Maybe more, maybe less.

Also, speed plays a huge part in all of this. You have to achieve a preposterous, unimaginable speed to travel through time. If you were to leave earth at fifteen years old in a ship traveling at 99.5% of the speed of light (far faster than we can currently reach), and celebrated five birthdays during your travels, when you came home at the age of 20, all of your classmates would be around 65 years old. The theory is that during time travel, you actually move through space-time slower than everyone else.

Say your journey started in 2003. It would take you five years to reach 2053, so though you're going faster, you're also going slower.

In the end, it is probably possible, but not in any of our lifetimes. Not until we can finally reach that kind of velocity.