Monday, June 25, 2007

Time Travel




I have a theory about time travel. Since what our vision is limited to is light, it is basically the emittion or reflection of light that we sense off of any given object. Therefore, if something is lightyears away, they are so far away that the light that they are emitting or relflecting takes years to reach our eyes. Therefore, the stars we see are years in the past--we are literally seeing into the past.

I therefore realized that you can travel time if you have a distinct point of origin and arrival. If you are able to move faster that light, you will move away from something more quickly that the light that it is emitting can reach your eyes. Wouldn't this mean that they appear to either stop altogether or, if you're moving many times the speed of light, appear to rewind? As we approach our destination, the light that it's emitting would appear to permeate toward us far more quickly, appearing to fast-forward. That would be moving through time, as time is only a calculation of passing events, and its top speed is limited to our ability to sense these events. If we move faster than what we're sensing, light being the fastest substance we sense, therefore moving faster than light, we can travel through time, rendering us undetectable, and capable of accomplishing anything with literally zero time elapsed, depending on how much faster than light we're moving.