Let's Do the Time Warp Again....

It's only speculation about what time is and isn't. We humans see the sun set and rise like clockwork in the sky, we see times and seasons change and are fascinated by it. So much so that we invent clocks and try to keep track of it all the while trying to imagine what it is and what the universe around us is really like and wonder, "What is time?" Sometimes we even speculate traveling through time, from one dimension into another.

Some people think that time is like a flowing river and in such a case, a time warp would be a disruption of the continual flow, a spand or space where things move faster or slower for a period, like a waterfall or a rapid. Others think of time more like a spiral upon spirals. In such a case, a time warp would bend and move between unseen dimensions, between the separation of worlds that are either somewhere else, or in the same place, happening all at once at the same point in space, just at another spiral of this thing called time.

Some people believe that time, like water or like air, is something that can be traveled though, and they imagine that it could happen via the intentional bending or manipulation of mind or matter. They believe it is a possibility, based on scientific fact and human reasoning of course, But there are a lot of people who espouse the notion, it is still only and at best, a theory, and there are many theories. (See: NOVA, The Physics of Time Travel with Machio Kaku, and maybe even Stephen Hawkins Universe at PBS.org.

The concept of time travel, or traveling trough warps in the space time continuum is, no doubt, the stuff science fiction is made of. It has been made popular in recent years, not only by scientists to want to be the first to come up with the theory, but by people who write fition, movies and storybooks like, Rod Taylor’s, The Time Machine; Madeleine L'Engle’s, Wrinkle in Time or Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale’s, Back to the Future are about traveling in time or into other dimensions of the space time continuum.

We read the books and watch the movies, we see programs like the television series Star Trek, where particles of matter in one space and time can be gathered up, and transported to another and reassembled in the same array from which they came, and think perhaps this will be the mode of transportation of the future. We've been thoroughly educated by science fiction, trained to imagine what time travel is and isn't.

However, there is a form of time travel we do every day. It occurs whenever we are thinking of the past or remembering our childhood, reminiscing the way things used to be, or thinking of the future. Humans have that ability to look behind and beyond, to think about where they are going. Sometimes we even wish we could do life all over again because of the mistakes we think we made. In essence we are time travelers for time takes us through changes, often without much effort on our part and we do see change in us and in our surroundings as time, (whatever time is) carries us along, or perhaps passes us by, and we are always trying to circumvent it.

But people are enamored with their own idea of time travel, apparently every day life is not as exciting as the adventures that could be had if we could create a machine, or discover a way to travel through time the way we would want to. If such a thing were possible, would humans ever have to die? Could you imagine being the one to make the discovery that opens such a door for mankind's future? Could you imagine inventing a machne where all you have to do is think of where you want to go and step inside?

It's fascinating to consider all the possibilities.

It’s fascinating too, to consider the machines we already have that help us travel. Cars, trains and airplanes,really help us save so much time! And the only by product of such amazing forms of transportation is pollution. Is great. It's like climbing inside of a time machine and taking a shortcut or a warp through time; it gets you quickly to where you want to go.

If you stop and think about it, time travel is something we do everyday, and not simply science fiction after all.