Time is one of the countless mysteries of the universe. Mankind is
swept up in the river of time against his will and often against better
judgement especially when viewed from a distance. For example, sometime during the early 400’s;
Church theologian, Saint Augustine of Hippo (about
354 — 430 AD) wrote at length about the puzzling nature of time: “How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the
future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never
moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.” By taking Saint Augustine's logic a bit further,
we could actually determine that time is simply not a possibility since the
past has departed, the future does not physically exist, and the present occurs
only for an instant.
Some 1200 years later in 1600,
the former Dominican monk and philosopher Giordano Bruno was burned alive in downtown
Rome. So as to insure his humiliation, the “Church” first hung him upside down
for a good while after striping him naked . . . What made the teachings of
Bruno so perilous in the view of the “Church”? He had asked a simple question: “Is
there life in outer space?” Rather than
contemplate the possibility of other saints, popes, and churches existing somewhere
out there in the heavens, it made more sense to the “Church” to simply burn him
for “heresy”.
For more than 400 years the
memory of Bruno has haunted historians, especially those of science. In any
event, Bruno’s vindication has been late in coming, in that every few weeks or
so (about twice a month) a new planet is
discovered orbiting a distant star; to date, more than 250 such planets have
now been documented. Never-the-less, one big question lingers: Although the Milky Way is teaming with
extrasolar planets, how many of them can and do support intelligent life? And if such life exists out there, what can
science say with certainly about it?
Many people claim that
extraterrestrials visit Earth routinely in the form of UFOs. Yet, Scientists frequently
dismiss the likelihood of UFOs being from distance stars due to the vast
distance between them (distant stars) and
Earth.
Regardless, the most believable circumstances
of UFOs involve:
A. Multiple
sightings by independent, credible eyewitnesses and
B. Evidence from
multiple sources, such as eyesight coupled with radar.
To the chagrin of multiple UFO event
researchers such cases occur habitually. However what‘s so frustrating to
investigating scientists is that, of the hundreds of recorded sightings, none
have yet produced hard physical evidence that can lead to reproducible results
in the laboratory such as alien DNA or an alien computer chip.
Characteristics of such credible
UFO sightings that have been recorded by observers include:
a) The
ability to zig-zag in midair;
b) The curious
habit of stopping car ignitions and disrupting electrical power;
c) The ability
to hover silently.
None of these characteristics fit
the description of the rockets mankind has developed here on Earth. Most
importantly because all known rockets depend on Newton’s third law of motion (for every action, there is an equal and opposite
reaction); yet the UFOs that meet the criteria cited above do not appear
to expel an exhaust plume. And the g-forces created by zig-zagging flying
saucers are believed to exceed 100 times the gravitational force of Earth—so;
simply put, the g-forces would be enough to flatten any creature of Earth.
Because of such unexplainable mysteries, a more sensible accounting of
such undeniable events may best be explained by Travelers of Time!
In 1990, Stephen Hawking, the
renowned British scientist, professor, and author who has done groundbreaking
work in physics and cosmology, was at best skeptical about time travel; in fact
he suggested “there ought to be a law,
making time travel impossible”. At the time, perhaps lightheartedly, he
also proposed a ‘Chronology Protection Conjecture’ to ban time travel from the laws of physics in order to
“make history safe for historians”.
The awkward thing, however, is
that no matter how hard physicists try, they can’t find a law that prevents
time travel. Actually, time travel is consistent
with the known laws of physics. Sooo,
it comes of little surprise that Hawkins, unable to find any physical law that
makes time travel impossible, recently changed his mind. He made the evening
news when he said, “Time travel may be
possible, but it is not practical.”
Fact is, time travel into the future is not only possible it has been
experimentally confirmed hundreds of times. For example, if an astronaut were to travel
near the speed of light, it will take him only a single minute to reach the
nearest star in our Milky Way; however, four years would have elapsed on Earth,
but for him, only one minute would have passed, because time would have slowed
down inside his space craft. Therefore he would have travelled four years into
the future, as experienced on Earth. (Tactically,
Earth astronauts take a short trip into the future every time they go into
outer space. You see, they travel at about 18,000 miles per hour when orbiting
the Earth so their clocks tick a tiny bit slower than clocks on Earth.) Thus,
proving that a time machine capable of taking us into the future is consistent
with Einstein’s theory of relativity.
That said, the big problem is, yes — going back in time!
If mankind were to journey into
the past, based upon our current knowledge of the laws of physics, history
would be impossible to write. As soon as a historian recorded our past, someone
could go back and alter it. Not only would time machines put historians out of
business, they would enable us to change the course of time whenever we wanted.
History could easily become a never-ending, madcap crazy episode, as tourists
from the future ran trodden over historic events while trying to insure a good camera
shot.
Perhaps the thorniest problem to
overcome would be the logical paradoxes raised by time travel into the past.
For example, what would happen if we killed our mother and father before we are
born? This is a logical impossibility; typically called the “grandfather paradox”.
Fortunately there are at least three known hypothetical ways to resolve such paradoxes:
First, you unwittingly repeat past history as it is written when
you go back in time, therefore always fulfilling the past. In other words, you
have no “free will” in which case you are forced to complete the past as it is
written. Consequently, if you travel back into the past to give the secret of
time travel to your younger self, then it was simply meant to happen that way; if
the secret of time travel came from the future, that’s okay, it was destiny!
Second, you have free will, so you can change the past, but only
within certain limits. In short, your “free will” cannot create a time paradox.
If you tried to kill your parents before you are born, a cryptic force would prevent
you from performing the deed . . . Kind of like trying to walk on the ceiling; there
is a law preventing all of us from doing so, even though we might want to. Meaning,
there is a law preventing us from killing our parents before we are born.
Third, the universe simply splits into multiple worlds. On one
timeline the people whom you killed may look just like your parents, but they
are different, because you are now in a parallel universe. This possibility is most
consistent with the quantum mechanics (CLICK HERE for
more detailed information published back in 2011).
This theory can be clarified a
bit by drawing a straight line on a blackboard, representing the timeline of
our universe . . . Then draw a another line which splits off the first line; the
second line represents a parallel world that opens up when you alter the past —
the single timeline becomes two
timelines. This means that paradoxes
resulting from time-travel can be resolved. So, if you killed your parents
before you were born, it simply means you killed some nice couple who were
genetically identical to your parents, with the same memories and
personalities, but they were not actually
your real parents.
Sooo, next time you or someone
you know, encounters an unexplainable UFO
. . . Before dismissing it as just another crazy anomaly, you might
first consider the notion that “aliens” really do exist, but they are likely
our own descendants from many thousands of years into the future. And too, in such
cases the UFO’s occupants may or may not technically be of extraterrestrial
origin, if only because some of our indeterminably distant grandchildren may
well be born on a planet far, far away!
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