12 April 2008

What Time Travel feels like.

Time speeds up, yet it feels like each 'second' has lasted for an infinite time. You'd only feel the weight of a small fraction of the time all-the-while it has been bleh. Sight and sound also seemed to move at a different pace, which is extremely weird due to the fact that this ruins causality.
Time doesn't necessarily have to be linear to the person experiencing it. There could be a stray memory of future events which don't make sense until experienced in real time,at which point you're like "Oh, I get it." This also gets me paranoid. How do I know that I am not actually experiencing a delay-of-reality instead of  actually seeing the future?

An analogy would be like navigating a space-probe from Earth. There is a delay in time due to the vast distances of space. Each object moving that you see would have already moved for a while by the time you see it on screen... and by the time your command is sent back up to the probe, you already lost four minutes (time spend in transit)

This gets weird because you know that the things you're seeing is from the past, and you realize that they wouldn't be in effect until the future, so you would have to try to navigate ahead of time. Some people (eg, creators of lost) believe that time is self-coarse-correcting. When travelling through time, you can actually see,experience, and predict possible outcomes and possible realities. You try the best you can to see the most accurate one, but because of the time delay, this becomes impossible. This is when reality would 'melt' away the possible outcome and then actually show the real outcome.

Anyway, I'm gonna have to say "Never again." I don't like to travel through time anymore.
 Before tonight, I would have had lingering doubts about doing that... not anymore.

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