I was thinking a while ago about time and how it sometimes appears to go fast, and sometimes to play out at a crawl. I started wondering and began to ask myself some questions.
If we move fast enough, the so-called 'inexorable' concepts of time and space become irrelevant, for the future and and the past will happen in the present, and what happens to us in the now will become one with what happens to us in the hereafter...we could fly to the future and do what we're presently doing...in the future!...and what we are planning to do...in the past!: all happening at the same, same, time! In fact, the only reason why this has not happened yet is because we have not learned how to move faster than the speed of light! If we can, then the future will in fact happen BEFORE the present! This is called the Causality Problem, or the "Shalimar Treaty," http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/CausalityProblem.html, a publication of the folks at Wolfram|Alpha.
If this could happen, the future would routinely become the present, the present will become the future, and the past would become the future you lived BEFORE you got to the present.
The ideas/questions of how long it would take to cross over a certain distance to be at a certain place, for a length of time, would become obsolete. The very foundations of our beliefs would be shaken and rearranged, and time would suddenly become just another pawn in the chess game of life...kind of like a sentinel/gatekeeper program gone berserk.
What if you could tuck your toddler into bed tonight, and 5mins later attend his/her wedding to someone you don't even know right now? Knowing that if time were to be allowed to pass, all of that would be made known to you naturally, and relatively slowly? The child would then appear, to an observer outside of the "wool over your eyes" prison of space-time, to be married to his/her spouse BEFORE becoming a 5 year old! And perhaps it could all actually be happening at the same time. Time would cease to matter and the concept of age or ageing would be dead.
Wouldn't we be able to perhaps right a wrong...or check in the future to see if something will end in disaster, and correct it in the now, within minutes of each event? People would be constantly changing various aspects of their lives, and the true 'Balance of Chaos' would reign, because we seem to be inexorably drawn towards the 'Chaos attractor' at the end of time…
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