A dream I had it is in four parts

Missing

The first dream I had was about me going missing. I was somehow aware I was missing but did not tell anyone I was okay. I could see Facebook messages and people talking about me even in impossible places such as private chats with two people who knew me. I overheard people saying “remember that guy” and such. This dream was weird as although I remember most of it, the dream was mainly me over looking what people were saying about me. It was like every moment someone was talking about me I was over seeing it. The dream just faded and another dream came in.

Holiday with cats

I had been gone for a while and my dad was surprised to see me. I said don’t worry but I am not back long but we could get away for a few days if he wished. This is very rare for me as I never go anywhere with my dad. I and he then were in some hotel and we were in connecting rooms. The walls were plan white and had weird holes in the wall to store stuff. It had a very modern look. It was me my dad and my cat which had died a while back. This was very weird but my dad did not seem to notice the cat that had died a few years was with us. The dream went on to us going home with the cat and the other cat being at home waiting for us. We now had both cats that had died years back returned to the house. I then I said something how I need a see a mate and the dream faded.

Cloned mates girlfriend

This dream me and my mate was talking about a girl called Kathy. We both really liked her and I knew of a way we could both have our own version of her. I knew some glitch which I could use to obtain a clone of this Kathy girl. The project was successful and I took the clone and he took the original. The clone took a few days to wake up and was staying in a flat I was renting. When she woke up she wanted to go and see her grandmother which could cause problems if the real one had seen her recently or worse still was seeing her at the same time. I told her that her that her grandmother was away and that she were to stay over mine for a while. She went to sleep and I went to see my mate we met near the river and talked about the clone and how it was going. I was telling him it is not going to be easy to get her from seeing her family and I should get rid of her or take her away. My mate told me I shouldn’t go away again and that last time was bad. I did not really understand this so decided to get rid of her. The dream then started to fade.

Visiting the pope

The last of the four dreams I had and the most interesting and what really bought all three of the dreams together.

I had some how gone back to the 1980s and went to see the pope visiting England. Pope John Paul II visited the United Kingdom in 1982 so this may have been when I visited him. I saw him and went to talk to him although I can’t remember what about. I knew some stuff about him he didn’t know how I knew. I then left and thought I would go to the year I was born 1988. I hung around a bit and met a girl and talked to her and we hung out and got on good. I kept going to see and really liked her.

She invited me to see her family or something and I decided to go with her. We were both sitting on some grass near a building. Her family or friends were sitting talking and eating some home cooked food she had made. She told me she really likes me and she thinks we should be together. I told her that there is something I had no told her and that I have to before I could date her. She was scared of what I had not told her. I was about to tell her and then she interrupted me and got out a photo album for us to look at. We were looking at pictures and one photo had 1984 in the corner. I quickly asked her how old she was in that picture and she replied 16. I then asked her how old she thinks I was in 1984 and she said “like 18?” I said that I was not even born then. She thought I was being stupid and told me not to be stupid and asked when I was born. I told her I was born in April 1988. She said don’t be stupid that was only months ago. I then held her hands and we looked into each others arms and I told her “that’s what I needed to tell you, I am a time traveller from the year 2010 and I am going to have to go back there”. She didn’t believe me and I said that I wanted her to go with me. She looked at me and was confused I said that she can go with me but we would need to go somewhere where we would not be seen for me to show her I could time travel. She asked me if I had any proof and I wondered what I could show her.

I had a box of menthol cigarettes and offered her one. The package was new and a different design to the ones they had in 1988. She said she would come with me and I told the other people we were with that we was going for a walk alone and would be back in a bit. We then walked into a stairwell of a near by building and I closed the door I then lit the cigarette and realised I had a problem. I had forgotten how to time travel and I may be stuck in 1988. Knowing that I was also alive and not even 1 year old at this point somewhere else in England and that I would not discover time travel for another 22 years I was scared and woke up.

The dreams all seem to flow together. The reason I was missing was I had time travelled away. The reason I could see everyone’s responses was because I was keeping an eye out. When I returned I knew it wouldn’t be for long so I thought I would go on holiday with my dad something he has wanted us to do for years now. I then got distracted by a girl who my mate was also interested in and used a time travel glitch to some how clone her. I then got rid of her and whist grieving I went back to the 1980s when I met the girl. I thought this was an interesting time how it was only as I was waking up I put all the dreams together. There is however another thought that I only thought about after I had wrote this but what if the last part came during the first part and the reason I was away was because I was with the girl. Also the reason I needed to get back was because people was missing me. However if this is true how come I couldn’t just return to the day after I left? Also why was she not in the first part and why was I was scared to be left in 1988. I feel the order really is 1 to 4 as I thought when I was waking up. I hope you enjoyed the dream.

Retro Cognition with replacement (TTTP7 Revisit ones own timeline + TTTP8 Revisit ones own ancestry)

Having not posted a time travel theory for a while I thought I would write a spin off. This theory revisits TTTP7 Revisit ones own timeline plus it talks about the possible next theory TTTP8 Revist ones own ancestry. But it should be noted this is not a time travel theory on its own. This is more of an ability someone could gain.

Ever had regrets that you wish you could change? What if you could go back or see the future mistakes your about to make?

Retro Cognition is the ability to remember or have some idea of recall of past events. My earlier post “Post-cognition or retrocognition” talked about this. But what if we could go back and then place ourselves back there? What if we could return and relive all the moments.

Like I said above this is not really a time travel theory because, the person may not really be time travelling. They may really just be getting precognition. The time traveller can travel but only back to the start of the memory gained from their post-cognition state.

So what is this theory about? Well an example is really required here so here it is, a man is aged 30 when he was 29 he broke up with his wife and lost his kids. He realises he can remember the last year or two in perfect detail. He tries to remember where it all started. Whist remembering it he then goes back to that time to when he was just 29. Where this differs from TTTP7 is that he now has full memory of the next year.

Why would this happen? Well we go into Parallel universes again and a reason for this happening is because the ability of post-cognition is rather close to precognition. The ability of precognition should not always be classed as precognition. If the access to precognitive thoughts is limited to a one time line and ends are a certain age. An example would be the guy in our earlier example; he would not have access to any events after he was 30 and would not know anything about the results of changes he makes.

So why does this have TTTP8 features? If the post-cognition memory span was capable of going farther than that of the life of the person with the ability, it may be possible for them to have access to the life and make changes to things before they was even born. There has to be some limitation to this ability such as which parent/grandparent is accessible and if they can take control over other people’s bodies is it part of another ability all together?

I can understand if this theory is hard to read and if I am honest I did not really want to post this theory. I do however have nothing else to post and I wanted to post something today.

Dual or multiple time lines

This post is a theory I have had for a long time and featured it briefly in my journal I wrote for university.

We view time as a linear line. We see time as a process of something happening and the ability to know something having a start and an end. We view time as the morning the afternoon the evening the night. But what if the time was both the morning and the afternoon for the same person at the same moment?

Imagine that time is not just one line but more like a zig zag or river like. This would mean that there is not one thing happening at one time but lots of things. The birth of person could be happening at the same time as his first day at school, his wedding and his death. All these would be happening at the same time but just different parts of river. This is multiple time lines.

What about a dual time line? We understand and view time in a linear line. What if there was more than one thing happening. What if we had two view points in time? We could already have two view points and just not be aware of them. They might not be aware of each other.

Think about this, every moment has already happened. The moment where you are reading this is just one moment. One thinks it is linear only because when starting a new “moment block” one starts with the memory of the previous block. Therefore you see the world in a linear fashion. But just seeing the world in this fashion does not mean it is linear. Think of a grid of 16x16 “moment blocks” or “memory blocks”. All the moments could be put into the gird into any order. The result would not be out of order because each time a new moment is started the memory from the last one is blanked and at the start of the block it had the preceding information. Using this logic it may even be possible to say that nothing has ever happened and what is remembered is only remembered because it was told at the start of the block. This could even mean that the universe is just made up of moment blocks and they are in no order what so ever. Think about a movie the start the middle and the end. The movie is like one block and one view of that block. If there were lots of blocks all being viewed at the same time but by different people there would be no reason to think someone else is watching another block unless one knew about it.

So what could be gained from this? Well for one if we are viewing all points at the same time of our life, then if we can become aware of the other view points we can see into the future/past. If we are not viewing but living in a river timeline we may be able to, jump on the bank and back in the river, so to speak. This would enable one to travel into different moments. Just because we view time from one angle does not mean it is what we see. Viewing a three dimensional object from one angle can make it look two dimensional. Just because time looks linear does not mean it is.

A theory of the beginning

This came to me over the last few years in bits and pieces and seems to fit together. I have always had some weird thought that knowing the past is one step towards knowing the future. That past cognition is as good as post cognition. The following is what I came up with over time.

In the beginning there was an end. Although seemingly impossible there was an end. The end was caused by man. The human race kept expanding and expanding in this universe. They discovered a way to create another world. The human race discovered a way to play god and to create a fully living world. The world and worlds they created had fully populated humans living and breathing. They discovered a way for them to go into these worlds. Out of the world they was god in the world they was just a normal person. The human race was able to move into these worlds at the time of the destruction of the universe. The problem with this was that if their universe ended the world they hid inside would also end. So they started to create another universe from within this world that they had created. This universe was created and that universe grew to become the one your in now. This universe is the universe that will end. The loop goes on and on and on. But if at the very start there is a universe about to end then surely like dominos they will all start to kill them all off? The answer is that it is what has caused this universe. For we will not create this universe we will create the reason and the cause. This universe started with a bang and the bang was caused by us and the end of last universe. We cannot create ourselves but our creation will create us.

So what does this mean and how is this possible. There are a few things that can cause problems. One is that for this theory to work time is looping and not linearly. If time is linearly and is looping then time is set. Time has a set line that will repeat forever. So what about religion? It is not to say religion is wrong as and religion is still possible. If changes are slightly made in this theory such as they managed to leave a message in the universe saying it was created and the messiah will take us to the new world. This story still works. What if we are the new world? What if we are where the prophet will take us? What if the savour of mankind is just a normal person and will create this world that we will go to. Is there a god? Well yes but god is anyone who creates the world.

What is reality? Reality is the loop. The meaning of life is to live in the loop and to make it work. Is there free will? There is free will but only to stay in the loop. For the end has been set as was the beginning but this does not mean the middle has been. Ever had that feeling you were hear before? Déjà vu is the feeling you have been here before. What if the reason for déjà vu is because you have lived this moment before? This theory explains the feeling of us not being in the real world as well as having past lives. What if we can change some things but unlimitedly everything is set. There are points in time that will forever happen, JFK getting shot or 9/11 etc. What if these moments are fixed but your life is not

Post-cognition or retrocognition

Staying with the subject extra human abilities that was talked about in “If humans could fly”, this theory talks about another ability. What if humans could see into the past! This of course is nothing to write about, humans have memory, humans can see the past and humans have been able to do this for a long time if not forever. So what makes this gift any good? Seeing into the future would be much better.

Seeing the future has problems which could cause paradoxes such as, if one saw their own death was going to happen in the house they currently lived in, they would move? If they moved they would not be in that house to die in and the precognitive image was wrong. It also relies on everything following some kind of set of actions.

So what is the use of post-cognition? Post-cognition has the ability to see what has happened. This is much larger than the memory of the person. This is the ability to be able to see past lives, the past of other people, and the past of objects and the past of locations.

This is not free of problems though, confabulation is the invention of memories in the mind. This is a leading problem science has with post-cognition. Confabulation is the inability to tell between genuine or false memories. Someone with apparent post-cognitive abilities may only be suffering from confabulated memories.

There are a few ways post-cognition could work some are more insane then others. Everything has memory, if everything in this world had memory of some sort then objects such as a pen would remember where it had been and who had used/made it. Location memory, if locations have memory such as rooms it might explain how people can know the way around a building they have never been to before. The last theory, multi-verse what if post-cognition would be available when another universe that was currently behind the current universe was close enough for one to peek into it. This would allow one to see the past or a past. The past that is seen may not be the real past of the current universe and as such may be viewed as confabulation.

Further reading:

Post-cognition or Retrocognition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrocognition

Confabulation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation

A psychic who may have had retrocognition http://www.edgarcayce.org/are/edgarcayce.aspx

TTTP7 Revisit ones own timeline

This theory is very much like the last theory in that the events of the future are not set and can be changed.

This theory assumes one will be able to gain an ability to re enter past events and change their own actions. This theory is used in the movie series The Butterfly Effect. This theory in my opinion is the most damaging one and could cause the most stress and depression to the traveller. The traveller would most likely have a gift to re-enter past memories or a device of some sort to travel back in time in which the traveller would take over control of their past self. This does mean no one will be able to time travel to before they are born, or maybe they can but only just before as seen at the end of the director’s cut of The Butterfly Effect (2004). The traveller would most likely make a mistake the first time travelling and would not know about it till their return. Any changes to the ones past such as delaying an event little longer, such as the event that is most likely to happen when the future self takes a hold of the past self.

An example, a time traveller wants to relive his 18th birthday party. He goes back to when he was 18, the first moment when he takes control over his past self is likely to cause a delay or disturbance to his past self’s current actions. The past self is currently running a bath in the next room. The future self unaware (unless memory of current events is known) and takes control over his earlier self. Amazed by his actions the future self looks out the window thinks about the car his family used to have, the people who lived down his road, etc. All this time the bath is running and it overflows. Now that bath never overflowed and the damage was never done in the time line the future self was from. The events after the bath will also be delayed or will no longer happen. Maybe he was going to get a bus after his bath that does not happen anymore. All these problems cause more problems and those problems cause problems and so on. The point is, once a traveller travels back using this theory it is unlikely he will get back to the time he knew.

There are other possibilities though; the traveller may gain full memory of current actions when they time travel back, the traveller’s changes may not take effect or what is meant to happen is meant to happen and the changes the traveller makes only causes events to happen differently. If the traveller gains full memory of the actions he was currently doing at the time he takes control, he may just act out those events as they happened in the same way, with or without having the knowledge of the future. If the traveller can not make any changes or damage to the future then the traveller can have as much fun as they would like. Think about chances one would have, maybe they turned down a date with someone in school or maybe they missed the last words of their loved ones. They could just go back and relive it. More so would be the ability to relive ones own best moments of life.


On the other hand the changes one makes in the past might just cause events to change but most major effects stay. For example, a time traveller prevented his earlier self from meeting his future boss somewhere but this does not cause any major problems as he may just meet him somewhere else.

But there is one other possibility that we have not talked about, what if a time traveller goes back in time and causes changes that cause his life to end? This would in my opinion not cause a paradox as using this logic the time line is flexible. The traveller would just die having caused his death in an unknown time line. As the time traveller would be creating changes that effect everything the actions would be unknown. It would be the same as someone bumping someone in the street if that person had not bumped into that person the actions would be different. We do not know what would happen if those two people did not bump into each other only that they would not have bumped into each other. The actions that are played out that are caused by the traveller’s actions are just changes that could have happened. The actions may be very unlikely but still actions that could have happened.

A summary as this seems to be long. A time traveller can time travel to any point in his or her life, they are able to change the events of that time which may or may not cause ripple effects through time. The traveller is directly changing the time line and as such does not affect paradoxes. The example of going back in time and killing ones father before one is born is not valid because travellers can only re-enter their own time line. If a traveller causes their own death before they travelled, the traveller could just kill himself.

The next theory will use a similar logic as this one but is very much based around one’s family tree and how they could be connected. The next theory is called TTTP8 Revisit ones own ancestry.

How would you know you are not a robot from the future?

This is science fiction isn’t it? Not possible? Okay let me explain. In the future there is very much likely to have robots. In the future they may have the ability to move the memory from one person to another person. In the future they may have the ability move the memory of a human into that of a robot. In the future they may have time travel. In the future someone may come back to kill someone important from the past. In the future we may have the ability to prevent such actions by creating a robot that is so alike to a human that even the human’s parents and lovers would not tell them apart.

Now think about this, a man who is going to discover a way to cure cancer and prolong live for a long time. This man is amazing this man dies knowing he has changed the world he has left behind. Years past and the changes he made live on. Human beings don’t die as fast and the world becomes too over populated. A team of time travellers go back in time and kill the man before he cures cancer. They view is that cancer is a good way of keeping the population down. The future knows of these actions and creates a copy of the young man. They fail to prevent the team of killers from killing the man, but do have enough time to copy all of the memories of the younger version of the man into this copy. The man would be unaware he is now a robot and his life would play out the same he would create a cure for cancer. The team of killers would travel back hoping to see a change only to be put into jail for time travel abuse and murder.

This is science fiction but is it? This is impossible but is it? They said walking on the moon was impossible they said building a flying machine was impossible they said the earth was flat but it wasn’t. Just because something seems impossible for us to do does not mean our descendants cannot do it!!

TTTP6 The future is not set so therefore can be changed freely

This theory assumes the future can be easily changed and the actions in the past reflect in the future. This means if a time traveller travels back in time any change he makes is reflected in the future. His own life is unaffected. This means if a time traveller goes back in time and causes events which would cause his reality and his time to be changed, he could effetely kill himself. The world does not have a set timeline and the line is variable. An example, a young man wants to go back in time to give his earlier self the lottery numbers. He goes back in time and meets himself. He then tells himself that he has the lottery numbers and gives them to him. His earlier self places the numbers and wins the lottery. The time traveller returns to his time and sees a version and reality of himself where he won the lottery. Because this version of himself would have no reason to go back in time he is not that person. Even if the other version of him did realise he would need to close the loop he would still not be that person. He has effectively killed himself. His time line has been removed and he is now an “extra” or copy.

Using this logic it would be safe to presume very little actions can cause the time travellers time line to be removed. But due to the actions not causing a paradox it would seem safer to time travel in this theory than some others. But here is another example; a female doctor wants to go back in time to see dinosaurs, she goes back in time and takes some photos using her camera. She then gets disturbed and drops her camera. The camera contains man made items which could be poisonous to the animals at that time. The woman may have also had a cold or illness that could have caused damage. These actions could be enough to change the course of time.

Basically every action the traveller does cause direct changes to the future he is from. The traveller could go back in time and kill his mother or father before he was born and returning to his time he would see the world as if he was never born. But now because time is not set and the time line has changed it is possible for him to fix it. He can go back in time and kill himself before he killed his mother and father without changing time or killing himself now. As for every change he makes is only reflected in the future. His life cannot be changed because he is the one that is causing the problems.

His life line has done and has seen and has been created he cannot change that. What he knows and what he is cannot be changed by time travel unless someone else changes it. He can go back in time one minute and kill his earlier self without changing anything. He would effectively create a copy of himself as he did not die one minute ago so he is still there. But there is still the body of the person who did die 1 minute ago.

The next theory uses the similar logic as this one but is very much based around each single person’s actions. The next theory is called TTTP7 Revisit ones own timeline.

TTTF1 The copied traveller

In case you have forgotten TTTF1 = Time Travel Theory Future 1. This theory can work for travelling to the past as well but I feel it would be best to start travelling into the future.

This theory assumes everything is set and time travel was not meant to be possible but is. This theory assumes that if a traveller travels into the future he or she could see their own outcome but would be powerless to affect anything. This theory assumes that if a time traveller travels in time he or she will forever be lost. This is how it works, example, a time traveller wants to go into the future to get the lottery numbers, the traveller sets the machine to the following Saturday and sets off. The traveller to be careful not to bump into the future version makes sure to go somewhere they are unlikely to be. The traveller views the numbers and goes back to their time. The traveller then enters a world where there is two of the traveller, the other traveller being a copy of the earlier equal.

This is because time enters a dimension that is not available in this world. The traveller cannot enter this dimension and if he or she does they would disappear with out leaving any trace. This basically assumes the universe would not be able to cope with the loss of something to that dimension so it creates a copy or prevents it from happening. The fact it is successful does not matter, from everyone in the universe the traveller would just disappear. So to cope with the loss the universe creates a copy. So there are now two of the traveller one that is travelling and one that would just think it did not work.

So back to the example the traveller as now just seen that there is a copy or clone. The traveller would be more shocked to see the traveller believes that it is not possible to travel. He or she may even travel several times because of this. So the traveller tries to tell the copy when they realise they are only a clone and only able to see but not been seen or change anything forever stuck in time unable to change or effect anything. This theory is quite scary in that there may be loads of copies all stuck unable to do anything. The time travel would however be able to travel into the future and see possible solutions to their problem.

Now this theory does have holes such as if this traveller is now stuck he or she would be unable to touch anything and although people may be able to believe that, the fact of the floor is a issue such as, wear and tear of the floor, stairs etc. As well as not being able to eat or drink. One possible theory to solve this problem without changing the theory too much is that the traveller can move objects, eat, open doors, etc. This may even answer the theory of ghosts but that assumes someone as managed this already. Another theory would be that because this person would not truly exist his or her changes would not continue. If this is true then if a stuck traveller went to eat an apple the apple would be eaten but the apple would still exist where he or she picked it up, creating another copy. The same could go for doors if he or she opens a door the door would open but would still be closed to those in the unstuck world.

Another theory is that they would have “no clip” (a video game mode) where by the traveller could walk through walls and fly etc. If this is true then the problem of eating would still be present and they would have until they die of hunger.

This could mean that time travel would be seen as a failed attempt and no one would try it anymore. This does however mean all the failed attempts would create copies. The next theory of travelling into the future will be TTTF2 the disappearing traveller.


In case you want to know more about no clip Wikipedia has a page about it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noclip_mode

TTTP5 Time recorder

This theory assumes mankind will have the technology to be able to record the events of the whole universe. This theory means that it is possible to create a machine that can record the variables of time and space. This machine would allow the user to go back in time or forward to recorded events. Access to unrecorded events would not be possible due to how this theory works.

An example, a man wants to go back in time to place bets on a horse that has just come first in a recent race. The time traveller uses the device to go back in time places the bet and depending on how the devices works returns to his time or just waits it out. Should the person meet himself however it is unknown what would happen? It could induce and would likely cause a paradox. If they one met ones self in a universe that does not support branching time lines it would cause some problems. The time one has spent talking to ones earlier self has created a problem because it may delay the earlier self from travelling. Also the lack of memory of meeting ones earlier self is also hard to explain. Without connecting onto the first theory TTTP1 everything is set it is hard to understand how this would work. One way it could be explained is that the memories are instantly created in ones own mind. They then remember meeting themselves and time is slightly changed.

Hawking’s theory of no tourists from the future is valid here because no such device exists yet. But how the world could exist with a device like this is unknown. It is unlikely to be allowed to be used for tourists due to the amount of paradoxes it could and would cause.

There are two possibilities on how the device would work. One would be it just records time and one can view it. Or one would be as talked above a way to an earlier re-enter time. The latter is of course more extreme in terms of technology. If the device only allows the person to view the recorded events then it would be like a massive Closed-circuit television (CCTV) system. It would be able to monitor everything and could be extremely valuable for law enforcements. But like TTTP4 Time travel is unnoticeable this would cause problems to privacy.

This theory has a number of holes which are clearly seen. It has no way of preventing paradoxes unless the viewer is viewable and would require technology on a seeming impossible scale. It may be possible or may not be but the truth is it could well be the end of the universe if it is. If this is a simulated world it could lead to accessing the real world and be using some power from it. Think about this for a second if this is a simulated world and all the actions are recordable then if somehow mankind or even aliens managed to access the record button and the play button it could work. It may not even be known it is a simulated world at that point science is after all best guessed. The best guess may be that mankind invited a way of recording everything where in reality they are just accessing power from another reality. The next theory will be TTTP6 The future is not set so therefore can be changed freely.

A recurring time

For everything to be set in our time line would flow in one direction. What if time was going in a loop and all events had already happened and that everything was going around and around in a big loop. All the events we have done or are going to do have already happened. Maybe the universe has already ended and the big bang was the end of the universe not the start. We would be unaware of anything and believe we are in control only to be living the path we were meant to do. This is very similar to fatalism in that we are unable to change anything. If everything is just following out the path in which it is set we might not be able to do anything about it.

But what if it changes slightly? What if everything is set and it is following a loop in which will lead to the end of the universe, but is allowing some change a long the away. An example would be a route to work, one can go down street A that links to street C to get to work or go down street B which also leads to street C. If it does allow some very little changes what could one do about it? If you feel your life is following a set route and that everything you do seems the same, you could change what you do with your day to day life. But of course one does not know whether or not the changes are that of what is free will or that of what was meant to happen.

If time is meant to just restart at the end of time, what if it doesn’t loop but rather rewind and then play again. This would see time running backwards. During backwards running time no one could remember anything as it would be replayed and removed as it is happening. As memory is seen to work by only forward running time maybe time running backwards is a way to remove those memories. Which could be why no one can remember it?

What about Déjà vu? If everyone is living the live they lived before then maybe some of it could be remembered. This could explain Déjà vu and may also explain memories of past lives. Whether time is looping or rewinding and starting again. It may be impossible to know this. If someone could remember their whole live this could lead to them cheating death, accidents etc. Next time you get déjà vu try to think long and hard have I been here before?

TTTP4 Time travel is unnoticeable

This theory assumes that what has been set has been set and therefore cannot be changed. Events once they have happened can only be observed not changed because they are set. Think of it more of a video that time has recorded. Everything whist is being recorded is changeable but once done cannot be changed.

Example, a time traveller wants to go back in time to ask an earlier version of himself something. The time traveller goes back in time and visits himself earlier that week. Because he did not meet himself earlier that week and get asked about something the time travellers earlier self would not see him. The time traveller could only observe but not change anything.

Another example, a robber plans to rob a shop he makes himself be seen by talking to some police officers at the time he plans to go back to. He then goes back and tries to rob the shop. The shop was not robbed so he cannot even move objects.

This theory means everything is set and recorded time travellers can time travel but only to observe. This would explain Steven Hawking’s theory of the lack of tourists. It would also mean people could go back in time and witness crimes but not prevent them. This would also mean people could solve problems such as who was Jack the Ripper and what happened at the start of time. The time traveller may or may not be able to open doors or may even be able to go through them as the time traveller would not have physical form there.

The traveller may or may not be able to walk through temporary object such as doors. By temporary it is meant that because a door can be open at one moment in time and closed at another it is more temporary than that of say a wall that may be there for some years. If the traveller can walk through doors then it would explain the issue of being able to get from one room to another without moving objects through doors etc.

This theory would mean that police would have the ability to view crimes with out preventing them. People could see famous events in history such as listening to Beethoven or witnessing events. This would allow people go see any point in history with out changing history. This theory has its down sides by lack of privacy. As well as the feeling of being unable to change something that has happened. One may go and visit loved ones that had died and feel helpless because they are unable to change them dying. One may even go back and witness people’s deaths and feel helpless. What is unknown is what would happen if a traveller would have a heart attack or die whist travelling in time? Would the traveller’s body ever been found or would it forever be lost in time. The next theory TTTP5 Time Recorder talks more the ability of recording time.

TTTP3 Self repairing time

This theory assumes that events that are meant to happen are meant to happen therefore no one can change them. This is a very interesting theory and very easy to not believe. The theory assumes that the events in time are fixed. One can go back in time and change events as they wish but returning to their own time fixes everything. Example again would be a man going back in time and attempting to kill his father or mother before he had been born. This event would happen and all of the changes he made whist there would also seem real and happen. But when he leaves time would repair itself.

Think of this theory as a time has a memory of what has happened. Time Travellers have access to this memory and can go back to any moment and revisit it. Upon changing anything that would cause the future memories to change, time would repair itself upon the traveller leaving. This does bring upon a few holes and possibilities. Such as what if the traveller never left? Would time never repair? Would it even matter if it did not repair itself are changes automatically reflected in the future or is the traveller playing in a sandbox memory. What if the traveller used it for crime? Given that time would repair itself it is possible that the time traveller could go back and rob a bank bring the money to the future and the robbery would be fixed. It is also possible that the same time traveller could then go back a few hours and rob the money from his early self, hence when he returns the money would be doubled. These unanswered questions are what make this theory a little harder to believe.

We could also look into the possibility that the time traveller when he is travelling creates a copy of time. As talked about earlier this sandbox environment could play out possibilities much like the theory of multiple realities. This would allow a time traveller could go back and cause problems in the past only to not have them relayed in the future.

For this theory to work something must be recording everything or there must a fixed “faint”. If time was keeping record of anything that has been done much like our own human memory does. It could be time itself that is recording this or something else working in the universe. If the universe is a living object it could itself be recording it much like our own memory. Or if faint is real and everything is fixed. If everything is fixed and set then why would someone be able to seemly change stuff only for it fixes its self? Why would the changes not be set and meant to be much like the first theory.

This theory would allow the time traveller to visit the past but not change anything. This would mean police would not be able to go back and prevent crimes but would be able to go back and see the crimes happening. This theory would also explain Steven Hawking’s theory of the lack of tourists from the future, as once they had left time would fix itself therefore we would not remember or the changes they had made would not be seen.

The next theory TTTP4 Time Travel is unnoticeable, will use the recorded time theory more to create a theory that is different to this one.

TTTP2 Multiple realities

This theory is about multiple realities and the existence of every possibility playing out. For this theory we could go back to the man who wanted to kill his dad (See TTTP1). The example would now go with, he goes back in time and he kills his dad and he returns to his time and nothing has changed. The reason for this is the path he created where he killed his dad went off into a different existence; therefore he was responsible for creating a possible world where a man killed another man. He would not belong in that world because he could not exist there. He had killed his dad and therefore his dad would have not met his mum and he would have not been created.

This theory would mean that the reason we have no tourists from the future is because we are living in a reality that does not feature any. This would mean we could never revisit past events because the reality we created would not be the same.

Time would branch out. There could have been visitors from the past but they would have changed some events and created the world we live in. If a person time travelled back to the start of time and had the technology to impress and show off the skills, they may been seen as a wizard or even the son of god. This would then create a chain of events from that point. This world we live in now could have been changed by a time traveller. The lack of evidence to back up this claim would not be needed because the time traveller could just leave taking everything that he used. This may mean there are some recordings in text of someone having a great advantage. This possibility could mean Merlin or even Jesus was a time traveller.

This would mean that every time some one time travelled into the past they would not affect the present. One issue with this theory is how would ensure they travelled back to their reality and not the one they had created. Getting back to the example, what would prevent the man from seeing a time that is was not meant to? The time where he was not even born? This could be explained by when travelling back the time travelling device would record the current location in such detail that this would not happen. One may also be able to visit alternative realities where any event could play out. Think about seeing a world where Hitler won the war by going back and killing Churchill.

Maybe someone died before they could do something. We could go back and use current knowledge to prevent them from dying then visit the future of their reality to learn from it. We could go back in time change important events and see the out come. All the time this would not change our reality but just create new ones. New realities where an unknown man did something and it just happened. If Merlin or Jesus was a time traveller, He may have gone back in time used knowledge of the future to create appearing Miracles or Magic. Merlin could have used a camera flash, or a lighter, or even an mp3 player to create a change and make it recorded in history. The world could have been very different and people may have not followed Gods word so maybe a preacher who had travelled from a world where devices existed to turn water into wine and heal people. Maybe Jesus did return to create the world we live in because the world he came from was bad, possible, is it not?

TTTP1 Everything is set

This theory assumes that all time is set and all actions are also set. Therefore if one was to travel back in time the events in which would be caused by his actions had already happened. This theory does not answer the lack of tourists from the future, but would mean that any actions a time traveller wishes to do would have already happened. An example would be: A man thinks his girlfriend is cheating on him after coming home from work and seeing his bed sheets slept in and a man leaving his house in the distance. A man wishes travel back in time to check before asking his girlfriend to see if she was cheating on him. He goes back to the time to before the events would have happened. He bumps into his girlfriend and one thing leads to another and they get together in the bed. He then realises he has got to leave quickly because he is about to come in from work. The man then realises his girlfriend never cheated on him and that it was him that slept in the bed.

This would mean any event a time traveller did would not matter because it had already happened. The problem with this is the time traveller may feel secure with knowing this and attempt to change history. Another example: A man hates his dad because his dad cheated on his mother and then killed them both leaving him to be brought up in care. He hates him so much he wants to kill him. The man time travels back to a time before his dad ever met his mum. He planed to shoot him, so he brought his gun and aimed it and fired it. His dad was shoot in the chest but survived and events where unchanged. This was because he was unaware that his dad was shot back before his dad met his mother and the nurse was his mother. This did not change events.

But what would happen if he had shot his dad in the head or tried to go back? Philosopher David Lewis has a theory that time would prevent any events happening that would change time. There for a bird would fly in the way or he would not be able to find his dad etc. This would also mean that it would be unable to prevent him from not being born.

Given this theory it is also possible that although humans are meant to be set going forwards (till backwards time travel), other entities may travel back. Humans use memory to know where we have been and witness what is currently happening. The biggest problem with something going the other way would be changing history. If everything is set it is likeier there are objects that could exist by remembering what is going to happen and see what has happened.

How Time Travel into the Past Could Work

There seems to be more theories on how time travel could not work than how it could work. Steven Hawking said the absence of tourists from the future may mean that time travel is impossible or never developed. The following is not how it could work in physics but how it could work around it.

How Time Travel Could Work

I plan on writing some theories on how time travel could work. The entries will use labels to help stick to single theories and help referencing. I will also be adding the new category “Time Travel”. The theories labels will work on the following idea:
TTTP1 = Time Travel Theory Past 1
TTTF1 = Time Travel Theory Future 1
I may re enter into the same theory and just label it has TTTP1 etc and a new name. I hope you enjoy the following ideas. There will be more theories into the past than into the future due to the whole unknowing of that the future will bring.