Time does not exist, so how can we travel ‘though’ something that does not exist?  Well, we can’t.

Scientists and physicists spend millions of dollars and hours exploring the concept of time travel, probably without giving a whole lot of thought to whether time really even exists at all.  Well, actually they do think about it…I believe that they have corporately made the educated assumption that ‘time exists’ so it is on that foundation that all of their other theories rest.

Reminds me of the group of scientists back in the 1800’s who all got together and deliberated and then proudly published their finding that “nothing new can ever be invented…we have already invented everything that can be invented!”

Point is, educated opinions are only as good as their foundation.  Researchers are snipe hunting for the elusive ‘time travel’ formula based on the assumption that ‘time’ actually is a thing that can be traveled through.  Bad assumption, I believe.

My favorite theory is the one that says ‘time’ slows down the closer you get to the speed of light, and if you could exceed the speed of light, you could go ‘back in time’.  I think this is all based on the concept of reflected light.  When we look at the stars in the sky, we are actually seeing the light that was emitted or reflected millions of ‘years’ ago.  What we see is what that star looked like when the light was emitted.  So, are we seeing the past?  In that respect, sure.  If we were there, is that what the star would look like?  No.  Conversely, sitting on that star, looking at earth, one would see prehistoric earth…what you see is all relative to where you are.

So, if we took a trip at 10 times the speed of light would we be going back in ‘time’?  Only to the extent that the light we were then seeing was the light that was emitted from the earth earlier.  BUT, that does not mean that we now exist in ‘that time’, the past.  We just exist, not in a particular time, but in a particular place; everything is relative to the place where we exist.  ‘Time’ is not a function in any of that because ‘time’ is a contrived notion.

So, when we travel at the speed of light for a period of ‘time’, do we return to an earth that is hundreds of years older?  Probably not.  IF that was possible, it could only happen as a result of somehow shifting our position in our existence, but it would not have anything to do with ‘travelling through time’.

Anyway, what about the future?  If going really fast puts us in the past then does going really slow put us in the future?  As dumb as that sounds, it is the logical corollary to the ’speed of light’ time travel theory.  So if one is not true, the other probably isn’t either.

And what about the ‘grandfather paradox’?  It goes away.  Your grandfather’s ‘time’ is the same as your ‘time’ because, again, a logical and sequential flow of events through ‘time’ does not actually exist.

There are physical laws that state that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only changed in form.  So, since energy is represented by atomic particles, I think that concept also applies to matter, in saying that one atomic particle cannot exist in two places.  The concept of ‘time travel’ would place billions of atoms (in your body) in two places at the same point in ‘time’.  In other words, the hydrogen atom in my little fingernail would also exist in a raindrop in a past ‘time’, which by definition is impossible since the exact same atom cannot be in my fingernail AND in a raindrop at the same time.

Finally, a quick look at the metaphysical nature of nature.  Scientists and classically educated researchers have long poo-poo’ed  on any notion of ghosts or psychics or any reference to strange science.  Well, given the concept of ‘no such thing as time’, and ‘all things simply exist’, the idea of some people having an ability to ’see the future’ or ’see the past’ makes more sense.  Given that ‘time’ does not really exist, then these seers are not really jumping ahead or backward in a simple sequential flow of events but are instead “tuning in” to other events.

In short, time travel is simply an extension of a faulty concept, that being that time actually exists at all.  Explanations of ‘alternate universes’, and ‘going fast to visit the past’ are all based on a contrived premise, that being that ‘time’ is a thing; it isn’t.  ‘Time’ is  just a one dimensional conceptual tool that we invented to make our lives easier.