Thursday, March 02, 2006

tempus fugit

Time travel is completely possible and you can in fact change the past. It's easy. It doesn't cost very much energy and nothing particularly arcane in the way of equipment. A magnet or two of a particular quality. A certain sort of mirror. One or two other things. The problem with time travel is that it causes a tremendously horrible sort of mental disease.

The physicists have acknowledged for decades that there are feasible infinite parallel configurations of the energy and matter that make up the universe, and some have argued that they all exist, adroitly explaining away certain anomolies of quantum mechanics with the idea. In fact only one track of reality exists at any one time and its configuration is determined by all the minds in the universe. The problem is that the stability of the mind is held by anchors of probability, the mysterious measure of presence that defines every aspect of the phenomenological universe and gives it its unique shape, and when we travel in time these anchors are shattered by the wildly shifting balances of probabalistic entitites. Huge changes, butterfly flapping its wings in Innsbruck scale changes. The world trembles.

Probably not, actually, because that's fairly improbable. But the mind certainly trembles, trembles in fear and loathing and gives way. The result is an empty and bemused horror of an unrecognizable physical reality next to which the most demented psychoses of the schizophrenic seem but shallow daymares by comparison. Believe me, its terrible.

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