You know when you're reading and you get done with one line and instead of going back down to the next, you repeat from the start of the one you just read? Yeah, I just did that while reading your post Chuck, and it freaked the shit out of me, I was already mindfucked and I thought I had just entered a moebius.
As far as time goes, it's easy.
A time machine could never exist.
Time is not on a timeline.
There was a past, but it doesn't exist now for fucksake, that's why it was, it has passed. You can't go back to it, it DID exist, but no longer does.
Why? You ask why?
Because time is change, that's all, change.
If there was no change, there would be no time, time would cease to exist.
If traffic lights didn't change.
If the planets didn't revolve.
If stars did not age and die.
If your cells didn't float and decay.
Time would cease to exist.
Of course, if that was true none of us would be alive, none of the known universe would be alive at all for that matter.
Anyhoo, the only way you'd be able to go back in time is to make everything exactly like it was then. Which is of course impossible, unless we learn how to clone and replicate exact circumstances that create people's personalities and change the climate and blah blah blah, all this is obviously humanly impossible. We can't rewind time, unless we can figure out a way to make our cells reverse decayal and make the planets revolve the other direction.
You can't get to the past, because from where we are, it is not that anymore, it's this new instance.
Notice the use of the phrase "it is".
It is not that way anymore.
It was that way.
[This message has been edited by Titan (edited April 20, 2003).]
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