Time

Here is the much debated topic that created the argument in my previous comments. I hope this will present both views equally, but of course more information will be placed in mine, since I still do not clearly understand the opposing view. However, first I must introduce some thoughts that led to this discussion.

This subject started when my good friend told me that there was no such thing as time. That it simply did not exist. He started by making a point that we cannot be in a time… like say it can never be 12:00, we can only pass through 12:00. I thought this to be a very week argument because of course we pass through ‘time’ but that does not mean it exists. His next point was that God never had a beginning or an end. This is of course true through the Bible, but it does not mean that time does not exist for us. I thought about this for a while and realized, despite my friends arguments, that time truly did not exist.

Time:

1:

1. A nonspatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future.
2. An interval separating two points on this continuum; a duration: a long time since the last war; passed the time reading.
3. A number, as of years, days, or minutes, representing such an interval: ran the course in a time just under four minutes.
4. A similar number representing a specific point on this continuum, reckoned in hours and minutes: checked her watch and recorded the time, 6:17 A.M.
5. A system by which such intervals are measured or such numbers are reckoned: solar time.

2:

1. An interval, especially a span of years, marked by similar events, conditions, or phenomena; an era. Often used in the plural: hard times; a time of troubles.
2. times The present with respect to prevailing conditions and trends: You must change with the times

So time by definition is a measurement using numbers as days and years of… of what? Einstein basically said it the best… that time is a measurement of relativity. It is the year 2006… relative to the birth of Christ (AD is a Latin phrase meaning the year of our Lord). It is the month of November… relative to the moon. Get my drift? Time is a measurement of when we are compared to when something else was.

Let’s take a break from time and explore position to get a clear idea of what I am talking about. Okay, say you are in your room holding a can of pop. Now explain where the pop is… in my hand… where is your hand… on my body… where is your body… in the room… get it? Pretty soon you will say something about the milky-way galaxy. And where is that, and where is the universe?

So, just as position is a measurement of relativity, so is time. So there you go, time does not exist. It is a measurement.

Ok… now for the hard part…Time Travel…

The question that creates the first two theories is: If it was possible to travel back in time and to see yourself, would you be able to kill your younger self?

THEORY NUMBER 1:

Basically this is the theory I cannot comprehend and therefore am against. Just thought I should get that out there. I view says that yes, you can in fact kill yourself. So basically this view you have to look in terms of timelines. So you have your timeline and when you go back in time you create a separate timeline. When either dies, the other carries on the timeline from there.

THEORY NUMBER 2:

This theory is that you will not be able to kill yourself (or at least your younger self). This is because if you kill yourself, you will not have lived to go back in time in the first place. There are two possible scenarios. I think that you would not be able to kill yourself; in fact the younger you would not be able to die at all. Because the younger you has to grow up to go back in time. The other possibility is that if you killed the younger you, the older you would cease to exist.

So there you go… I will probably have more on this later…