Actually, many physicists out there do believe that time travel is actually possible, but only after it's been done, because it would alter the continuity of space time. So, you'd be essentially able to travel to any point in place and time after a time machine had been built. Time would be irrelevant after a time machine was built. You wouldn't be able to go back and change the past, because, well, you already did. Time would just fit together as a puzzle, the only continuity would be in your mind. Could you imagine your future self coming back to warn you about something that will happen? Not only this, he'd remember this happening to him, down to the little details, only he would be experiencing the event from a different perspective. If you think about it, the younger you would be unable to stop from becoming the older you... it's not that there'd be an infinite loop, just that time would be irrelevant. There is still only one you. You aren't doomed to your future, you are it, you still do it willingly. It is a slight bit of mindfuckery.
Yet, here's an idea I've thought up. There is no time. There is no motion, no continuity, no future, and no past. There just is. Just an infinite amount of perpetual, eternal instances, arranging any amount of matter and energy in every possible way. All you are is what you are in this instance, your thoughts are the products of the arrangment of matter in energy in your mind, nothing more. There is no cause and effect, just existance. Your perception of the past is only because of the way things are set up, not because they actually happened. Since in the infinite set of instances, there would be some that are quite similar, and our logical assembly of them in to a sequence (the passage of time), is what our mind tells us, but this is only because that's the way your brain in the instance you exist in is, not because it's how the universe works, just because that what your perception is of the instance. Logic is false in this case, and your perception is just the product of the instance. You did not read that last sentence. You did not just think about not reading that last sentence. You were never born, and you never die. Nothing ever changes. There isn't a lack of control, because your percieved existance is actually unchanging, you can't control your future if it doesn't exist, you aren't the product of a chain of events either, you just exist. Everything else that could ever possibly exist, any arrangement possible also does... but I can't call it simultaneous, because... well that would require the existance of time. So... to summarize what your arrangement of energy and matter leads you to believe what you just read, there is no time, there just is. Mindfucked.
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