stories from the past

morganpageloves liked a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-4-QZ6uN0c&feature=plcp , and I was reminded of some things I thought of before. You may also remember "Back to the Future", one of the famous films about time travel, and definitely not forgetting "The Time Machine (2002)". You can say I'm a little obsessed with time travel. (And of course there are many more time traveling films, but I'm not going to name them all.)

I know, scientists have claimed that time travel is possible, and I'm not anyone to deny/oppose that viewpoint. But films have so vaguely touched on time travel, making time travel seem so 'easy' and 'perfect'. What I'm about to discuss are, the problems/complications of time travel.

You are taking yourself out of the equation (when traveling to the future)
Many films forget to mention this part. Okay, so you're an unimportant figure, right? So maybe you are. Maybe you won't ever do anything incredible in your life that would reshape the future of mankind. But assuming you live at least up to the age of seventy, your actions will have an impact on someone else. Say for instance, you might save a future president/inventor from some accident.

Because of you time traveling, that important person never survived the accident. So when you travel into the future, your actions changes the future.

How do you stop change in age
It may be simple to travel to the future, but how do you prevent yourself from aging?  You belong to a certain time period and time is fluid. When you're moving forward into the future, why won't you age? That's one part where films have never tried to explain. Likewise, when you travel to the past, why won't you get younger?

To add to that, when you reinsert yourself back in the timeline where you once left, you are going to be older than you were when you left that timeline. You have just brought forward your expiration date. I like to think that there are 2 separate entities of timelines: you and the main timeline. Time is "measured" by the rotation of the earth around its own axis, and not determined by it. Again, you're changing the future just by time traveling.

                                                                (OH NO I'M OLD?)

Time travel calculations
1) So when you time travel, you have to be so cautious about everything. First of, you can't ever meet yourself, according to Back to the Future. So you are only safe to travel to time periods where you don't ever exist.

2) Time traveling is difficult; you have to assume that the timeline is constant. So that means that whatever you do, it's already planned out/been done. THIS IS A FLAW IN THE ARGUMENT. What is free will then, if it's already a constant? If free will exists, this is a case of randomness in the timeline. Every timeline you enter and reenter will have a different outcome/situations. For instance on July 2nd 1973, 16:00, you decide to consume an icecream. Assuming that free will exists, you have the chance of not wanting to consume the icecream. If that's the case, I like to assume that every different timeline is different from one another.

When you time travel, essentially, you are taking yourself out of the equation and reinserting yourself into it again. The complications that may arise from that could be that firstly, you don't exist because your parents decide not to meet. You could have been another gender. What I'm trying to say is, each time you time travel, the timeline equation changes. Time is fluid, like water, it never stays constant. And that's why the argument for free will and destiny is tied together with time (I'll cover that viewpoint another time).

 Time travel is a very tedious and problematic process, and it's not to be taken lightly. So, time travelers out there, behave yourself.


p.s. don't time travel to fix a problem.
p.p.s. orphans are time travelers who messed up time traveling.

Weather talk

Sunshine is great, some say it lights up the ground, and it is when the sun is out do you get to see the different colors of sun's rays. After a rainy day, you get to see the marvelous colors of the sun's rays due to refraction. If you're lucky you might even get to see a unicorn galloping from one cloud to another, riding the magnificent rainbow.

The sun is great especially for cold, temperate countries, it is when you get to get out in your t-shirts and jeans and walk around basking in the sunshine. Maybe that's why Katrina and the waves wrote a song, Walking on sunshine. (here's a link to relive the 80's: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPUmE-tne5U)

Some people like the light, soft snowy weather. Snow is great for first-timers I've got to say. Definitely how the media makes snow seem so lovely. Snow is definitely something people in the tropics want to experience, since they have been under the heat of the sun for nearly their entire life. What is it about snow that captivates anyway? Snow can be positive and negative, depending on how you see it. On one end it brings people together - when I think snow I'm always reminded of a scene where families and friends gathering around a fireplace trying to keep warm. And doing the snow-angel.

But those who have been through a whole season of snow would know the truth about it; snow is depressing. It blankets an entire town with a sheet of white, nothing but sheer monotony. Sunshine lovers hate the snow.  Everyone is grouchy and grumpy because of the cold, and it's purely torturous when one has to get up at five in the morning to get to work.

"Grey skies, clouding up the things we used to see with wide eyes". That's right, rainy days. Personally I'm a huge fan of rainy days. There's just so much to love about rainy days - the sound of rain, the smell of the earth just when it is about to rain. Even thunderstorms can be rather exciting too. If you're watching the rain from your window. Yes, it is rather terrible to be caught in a storm; too much of anything isn't good anyway. I'm talking about grey colored skies and light, continuous rain.

Rain brings back a lot of memories for me. I spend most of my time alone, and even when I'm traveling from one place to another, well mostly in public transport, I never fail to look out the window. Beads of rain falling on the glass windows, and fogged up windscreens due to the differences in temperatures in and outside. rain comforts you like no other weather can. It is certainly relaxing isn't it? That is why people like to sleep in on a rainy day.