Wednesday 24 February 2021

Time Travel

 

Before we consider time travel, let us first consider what time is. Time is very long indeed. If the height of the room you are in right now is time, then you are no higher that the thickness of the carpet. 

What I am saying here is that you and I are nothing compared to time. 

It says in the Bible that “There is no difference in the Lord’s sight between one day and a thousand years; to Him the two are the same.”
(2 Peter 3:8)

This must make it difficult to have an appointment with God. Imagine God saying to Moses to go to Mount Sinai “tomorrow”; and Moses asking, “Is that tomorrow in 24 hours or in a thousand years time? Because I’d be dead by then!”

So what is time? Anything that happened yesterday, or before yesterday is in the past. Anything that will happen tomorrow and after tomorrow is in the future. You must never worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow has already happened in Australia.

What is happening today is in the present. 

But let us look at the present under a microscope. We find it is divided into twenty-four hours.

Let's get a better microscope. We find every hour is divided into sixty minutes.

An even better microscope will show us that right now, this very split second, 1 millionth of a second, that is precisely the present. And as that one millionth of a second has passed you are already in the new present and the last one millionth of a second is now in the past.

Get it? If you split time to the tiniest millionth of a millionth of a second you will discover that you are always moving in time because every tiniest microest bit of a second is already in the past before you even think about it.

That's time travel. You are already, and constantly, travelling in time. Time travel!

Time travel can be fast, as I described, or can be very slow. Especially if the train I am on stops at every station and is late leaving its destination anyway. My commuter train is frequently 15 minutes late. I wrote to the railway company suggesting they change all the times in the time-tables by 15 minutes and the trains will run on time. They have not replied because my letter was sent by snail mail which is slower than the train.

I once found a snail on my doorstep. To save him from being trodden on I picked him up and threw him in the bushes nearby. A week later he was on my doorstep again. He said, "What's the big idea throwing me in the bushes?"

When I was young I had difficulty controlling time. I was always late to school because I had to feed the cactus. When I grew up I sold the cactus and have no problem with time.

Scientists believe you can travel fast back in time to years already gone by. Or indeed travel fast to the future. If you travel fast into the past you can meet famous people who lived many years ago.

I tried that once by visiting a medium. Well, she was very large really, but she preferred to call herself a medium. So I humoured her. She was also a clairvoyant. She could see into the future. Unfortunately our first appointment was cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. She could also communicate with animals that had passed away to the other side. She spoke to a parrot once but he kept repeating on her. She tried talking to a goldfish which had drowned because it could not swim. But that's a different kettle of fish; a red herring really.

Anyway, I asked her to use her "medium" talking to people from the past skills to invite certain people to my birthday party. I wanted to invite Shakespeare, Henry the Eighth, Marco Polo and Cleopatra. That way I'd be the only one not in fancy dress.

Unfortunately not one of them turned up. Not one sent me a birthday card even. And they say elephants never forget. Don't believe it. I never received a birthday card from an elephant either. 

So in essence, time travel does exist. It happens right now and all the time. Every tiny split bit of a second of your time is immediately into the past, and you are always travelling fast into the future.

Use your time wisely.

29 comments:

  1. ...time has never been all that important for me.

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    1. If I only had time ... If I could save time in a bottle. The first thing that I'd like to do. Is have a drink!

      God bless, Tom.

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  2. Dearest Victor,
    Time can be a fascinating thing too as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said: Let your memory be your travel bag.
    We literally have traveled back in time on our 23 trips back from Indonesia and our trips from Australia and Japan. The time difference is 12 to 14 hours with where we live! Those people all are 'older'...
    Hugs,
    Mariette

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    1. Memory can make us travel back in time. Happy memories I hope.

      God bless, Mariette.

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    2. That's what we selectively hold on to Victor!

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  3. My motto is " if I have time on my hands...put it to good use."
    Time cannot be saved...it will only slip away when you aren't looking.

    Great Post Victor
    God's Blessings Victor

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    1. So true, Jan. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

      God bless you.

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  4. Like Ann Voskamp's written (in 1,000 Gifts), "All we have are moments. Microscopic, fleeting moments."

    Meanwhile, I've got Al Stewart's "Time Passages" playing in the background. (Seems appropriate, no?)

    I've really enjoyed this post.

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    1. Thank you Mevely. I enjoyed writing this post to this tune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDkeQvsGyKU

      I hope you like it.

      God bless always.

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  5. I never really looked at it this way, Victor, but you are exactly right. We are constantly moving on a time continuum, each and every fleeting second. May we all choose to spend our days wisely.
    Blessings!

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    1. In effect, Martha, there is not "right now". Because every tiniest millisecond is suddenly in the past and we are in a new millisecond.

      God bless always, and right now.

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  6. How very strange it is to realize that only a few seconds of our lives are in the present. Every other second is in the past or future - interesting concept.

    May God bless you every second

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    1. Thank you Nells for your good wishes and your visit here. Yes, we are only in the present for a split second at a time. Wishing you great happiness at every split second.

      God bless always.

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  7. If I went back in time to change something that happened before, how do I know that I haven't already done so and I just keep going back and undoing stuff and then doing it over again...never mind, now my head hurts.

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    1. Good point once more, JoeH. You seem to make good points. The fact is, we cannot go back in time or indeed change anything.

      Let me explain. If 300 years ago A marries B and they have children; and these children have children and a great family tree to today. And you are a product of this great family tree. If you were to go back 300 years and prevent that marriage, (say by killing one of the two), then the family tree would not happen. And you would not be here today to be able to go back and prevent A and B from marrying.

      So we cannot go back in time, let alone alter it.

      Einstein and his fellow believers in time travel got it wrong. I've just been back in time to see Einstein and he confirmed his mistake to me. He also stuck his tongue out at me like in the photo of him doing it.

      God bless, JoeH.

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  8. Time waits for no one! I love the time machine movie I saw in the 60s, very fascinating.

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    1. Time’s fun when one's having flies. How long a minute is, depends on what side of the bathroom door you are on.

      God bless, Bill.

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  9. Dear Victor, your very enjoyable and risible investigation of the nature of time thrust me from subatomic to tremendous universal expansion. I can only quote Steve Toltz, "The moment seemed endless, but it was probably only half that."

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    1. You are so right in your quotation, Geo. Time is relative. According to Einstein's theory of relativity the more relatives attend the Christmas party the greater the chance of arguments. I like my relatives. If it was not for them I'd be having arguments with complete strangers.

      God bless you.

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  10. Time goes too quickly - make the most of every moment.

    All the best Jan

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    1. That is so true, Jan. Enjoy the moment.

      God bless always.

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  11. I thought of this: "If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, then it will not matter in the end what you had chosen instead . . " I've been blessed by reading your blog Victor.

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    1. It is so nice to see you visiting here Dust Bunny. Thank you for taking the time to comment. Please return soon and often. You'll be always welcome.

      God bless you.

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  12. Time keeps on drifting, drifting, drifting into the future. Or so i've been told.

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  13. Why is that time passes by faster as we get older!? :)

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    1. Because we're enjoying ourselves!

      God bless, Happyone.

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