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Would time travel be the ultimate weapon, much more powerful than atomic bombs? Could no one could resist a power that controlled time travel?
Steven King introduced an interesting analogy about the fabric of time. I don't remember the movie though. The concept was that time only existed at the moment it was taking place. The past disappeared shortly after being experienced in the present, only the memory of it existed. So nothing to go back to. But I see problems with that.
If we could go back in time would history prove unalterable? Does the past solidify like concrete and become fixed. If we could go back and shoot Hitler it is popular to think the 2nd WW could be avoided. But if everything that happened after the point in time when he was shot is fixed it wouldn't matter. One brick knocked out of a wall would not change the structure of the wall. The past would still be the same. That theory would be correct if there was a manufactured boot print next to a fossilized dinosaur track. Because if a person had traveled back in time we can assume that the temptation would be too great to clean up history. So Hitler would have been killed. And we don't see the result today, therefore history is fixed and unalterable. That is my hypothesis. In like fashion the future is not there yet to go to so we can't go take a peak. So in the end time travel turns out to be a big flop.
Except we could go back and have a peak at history and correct all the history books. No more history is written by the victors! It could be written by true historians who have total access to the real facts. So time travel would be handed over to the academics who incidentally are less prone to faith in God. It naturally follows that the greatest riddle to solve would be God. Was Jesus Christ a real man, and God, and did He rise from the dead, perform miracles, and ascend to heaven. They would want to put to rest once and for all that question. So they would go back and look. So we can assume today that because we have not been told it is not true that they found Jesus. Embarrassed they excused themselves and decided to check out some other era. They decided on the dinosaurs and set the time machine at 65 million years and pressed the button. But confused by their embarrassment they forgot to reason this out. You see they should have realized when they saw Jesus that the world was possibly only roughly 10,000 years old! Poof they were gone. Now the janitor had been watching what was going on and he didn't like the present very much. He had decided to live in a simpler time. So he maxed out his credit cards getting his equipment together and zapped himself back about 8,000 years, before the flood. Wow, he was there. And what does he see but a big dinosaur. It pays no attention to him and he follows it leaving his tracks from his brand new boots in the mud with the dinosaurs footprints. So now the government has forgotten the time machine they spent billions on which turned out to be useless, the academics are gone having made a big mistake and the only other person left who knew about it, the janitor, is starting a new life. And nobody ever got around to telling the public. Our only clue now is the janitor's fossilized boot print.
Bob |
