I kinda just feel bad for the time traveller

May 20th, 2008

The Delorean time machine

I’ve resigned myself to the fact that time travel will not be available in my lifespan.   I do still believe that it is a very strong possibility though.   Everything I’ve read on the topic points to the reality of time travel, specifically time travel forwards, backwards is a hell of lot harder.   Maybe forwards time travel is a reality in my lifetime?   I like the idea that maybe I’m still around in a thousand years from now thanks to accelerated forward time travel?

Cool.

But it is the backwards time traveller that has my pity (to a degree).   Assuming that when you go back in time you are able to interact I have to imagine that the individuals selected to do so are extraordinarily well trained and disciplined.

Imagine though the thought process that must go through one’s mind when you know the horror that is to come.

To be talking to someone who you’ll know will die in some unpleasent circumstances, one word given from you could change all of that.   But of course you have to be detached, like a reporter, you just don’t get involved.

I think immediately after the event would be the hardest, the helplessness as time and events march on.   Some of these events are hard enough to watch now when you couldn’t have done a thing in the first place!

Yeah, this is the kind of stuff I lay awake at night thinking about.

Next time you can’t sleep try to work out how you would go about convincing someone in the past that you’re from the future.   Sure you can tell them some large scale events to confirm your knowledge but more often this would require time to prove.   Imagine you wake up and it is October 15th 1991.   Anyone have an idea what was going on in the world around that time withoutlooking it up?

Makes your brain hurt.

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