May 20, 2010

• Time Traveler

  The Question:
  

  • If you could travel through time, where would you go and what would you do?

  If you choose to travel to the PAST, you can bring nothing more than one piece of literature to leave behind. Your time is limited and you can only stay for one full day.

  Of course when I think of where I would go and what would I do, smoking a pipe with Einstein, observing the ancient Egyptians and walking with Jesus Christ all come to mind, but those possibilities are too easy and take too little imagination. Now, I assume that when you say “If you could travel through time” you are implying that I will be traveling forward or backward in OUR timeline here on earth, but let’s consider the broader view of this question.

  There are so many mysteries in this multiverse; so many unanswered questions and undiscovered possibilities! Now, if I am going to be “traveling” through time, I am going to need a destination, first I need to decide which direction I will be traveling. Since we don’t really rate much in the galactic scheme of things (not yet), taking present knowledge into consideration, what exactly would we have to gain by going into the past when the future is so enthralling? I will be traveling into the future. Let’s assume for a moment that I am traveling in a vessel capable of opening and stabilizing a wormhole allowing me to travel vast distances in a very short amount of time, let’s also assume that I know exactly where my destination is. I input my destination into my “intergalactic GPS system” and dial into the right frequency, my vessel propels me into and through this wormhole unharmed, putting me just out of orbit of an inhabited alien planet.

  Let’s say for the sake of imagination that this planet that I have just traveled to is “home base” for these beings that some believe have been visiting, observing and contacting us throughout our history. That’s not to say that these aliens are indigenous to this planet, but this is where they reside. For the sake of my fantasy, let’s say that the planet is inhabited by beings that aren’t hostile and regularly receive “guests”.

  Upon arrival I would be greeted and welcomed; invited to stay and learn for the sake of my race and planet. I would immerse myself in their culture (if possible), learn their language and physics, I would take notes on everything I possibly could. I would translate their texts and inquire the knowledge as to why they have visited us. As I said before, the possibilities are endless and this is only one possibility that I am very fond of.

  “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” – Albert Einstein

  What would you do?

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