Sunday, October 23, 2005
Time travel (part two).
I had a further thought regarding time travel. As I discussed previously the fact that no-one has come back in time and 'removed' or interfered with such ghastly events kind of proves to me that time travel will never exist. But... Supposing time travel is a possibility a thousand or so years from now but exists solely for the point of scientific research. What if historians and scientists are able to step back to various points in history to study our past and learn from it. They could be amongst us now, disguised. It would be lovely to believe that in the future the human race has a higher sense of purpose and is detrmined to learn from past mistakes and create a better world. Or how about time travel as entertainment? There's a fantastic John Wyndham short story called 'Pawley's Peepholes' that features time travel as entertainment. In the story people from the future travel back in time in invisible ghost-train style carriages to observe the humorous behaviour of people in the past. Is that how it's going to be? The entertainment industry is afterall, very powerfull indeed.
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Nobody knows the full extent of their impact. Who knows, maybe their was a purpose to the Holocaust? Maybe it taught the world what is wrong and should never happen again? What if something worse were to happen for lack of a Holocaust? Meddling always leads to unthought of consquences. When you start something, you're never going to be too sure of what will be the eventual effect. Changing one thing could start off a domino effect and a chain of events that removes something integral to how we live now. It could mean the loss of something that would have been considered as progress. (ie. democracy)
Too true ekantha, you speak as though you've experienced it. :o)
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