Lakshmi Manasa Maddi: Week 14 - Meeting with Memories
Lakshmi Manasa Maddi - Week 14: Meeting with Memories
Imagine yourself being able to jump onto a time machine and travel back to 2005 and be able to make all the changes you wanted to make to your past with a breeze. Would you have been able to bring back all those emotions of yours and change your life for the better? What if you were able to stop the occurrence of the pandemic? A paradox and argument that has been fought over for years about the effect changing the past has on the future has been roaming within the minds of millions of physicists (Neilson). Germain Tobar, an author who resides in a dorm at University of Queensland, suggested that with the application of theoretical physics in a real-life scenario, events that have occurred in the past could easily be altered with things that will happen subsequently in your upcoming life ahead of you (Neilson). He brought a really interesting analogy that I must agree with being, “It’s theoretically possible to go back in time, but you couldn’t change history” (Neilson).
This ideology had been specifically supported with another invented policy by Albert Einstein a few years ago. Since he claimed to have created a theory of relativity that showed that any object in the universe would redirect itself in a circular motion back to where it used to be, similarly it is possible for a human being to be able to travel back in time (Neilson). A real life example was also taken into consideration with a cause and effect momentary showcase that was brought by a set of billiard balls that were a part of a circular table just like the shape of the planet’s orbits (Neilson). Although this model is a small-scale representation of the larger circular arbitrary patterns of the universe, I think this a great starting point for future physicists who want to get a head start on exploring this topic in greater depth (Neilson).
Within this thought bubble, physicists also discovered the possibility of traveling back in time to be possible to a larger extent if certain particles and parameters that cover certain degrees of altitude expand over to traveling faster than the speed of light (Neilson). This would allow us to get back memories we wanted to look back at overtime and “re-enjoy” those moments once again (Neilson).
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ReplyDeleteHi Manasa! I'm kind of confused about the statement regarding changing past events with future events. Does it refer to a reputational thing where, for example, someone is imprisoned, and they are now seen as criminal scum, but they work hard to regain their status as a proactive member of society so that they are not defined by their mistake. Recently I've been feeling rather down, and I often think about going back to before quarantine because my life has seriously gone downhill after it. I also have a good amount of people I have long lost contact with whom I would love to talk to again, so it would be really nice if time travel was real, but I am quite scared of the butterfly effect.
ReplyDeleteHey Manasa, you make an interesting point as to the possible repercussions of time travel and how it would impact life as we know it. There are a lot of theoretical understandings of how time travel works, each of them increasing in complexity and sophistication with all sorts of different rules and regulations. For example, some portrayals of time travel indicate that the future and past version of someone can exist in the same world at the same time, while some portrayals depict the future version simply returning to the position of the past version. There's many understandings of how this works, and a lot of them are way too complicated for me to want to research and understand. However, one thing I do know for sure is the butterfly effect, which can result in a crazy chain of events following the slightest change or circumstance.
ReplyDeleteHello Manasa, the ideas that you made within this blog are very interesting for someone interested in the ability to travel back in time. The most famous belief regarding time travel is that the butterfly effect would mean that everything one does would be amplified in the future, that a single rock could lead Archduke Ferdinand to not be assassinated. However, the ideas you present are extremely interesting: no consequences as you would eventually revolve back to the present. This idea makes sense after reading your blog, but seems impossible nonetheless. It will be interesting to see what the future has for us.
ReplyDeleteHello Manasa, when you said that you can go back in time the first time, I thought you would make a philosophical argument about humans coming to terms with their past or something you like that. I did not know you would actually give us a theory that shows that time travel is possible, although this is cooler nonetheless. I know there are many theories that involve going back in time, and most of them involve quantam mechanics and a field of study that is not even proved to be true (superstring theory). I am a bit confused between the relationship between the theory of relativity and the theory of time travel though.
ReplyDeleteHi Manasa, the ideas you discuss in this blog post are really interesting, even thought I can't really comprehend all of it. The one thing I have taken away from time travel movies and shows is that don't change anything in the past because it could change your future. But the idea that we can go back in time but can't actually change anything is definitely something new. I'm guessing it would be more like we can only witness past events happening and not actually interfere in their occurence. I am a little confused as to how the theory of relativity proves time travel, but physics has always been kind of confusing to me. :) Anyways, this was a really interesting read, and I look forward to reading mroe from you.
ReplyDeleteHi Manasa, I really liked how your blog is a mix of fantasy and science. I have always wondered what it would be like if we could control the passage of time. It would be so awesome if we could hop onto a time machine and go change the past and some of our most embarrassing mistakes. I have also fantasized about having a pause button, so that we could stop the busy hustle of our lives and just live in this moment. Although the true limitations of time travel are unknown, I would still love to time travel even if we could not change anything.In all of our lives, I think there are some days that are just amazing. For example, I would love to be able to relive days in my childhood, and also days when I was traveling, and days when I was happily spending time with my family and friends. This ability to relive happy memories would be so useful, especially when one feels sad or depressed. It could also help people spend more time with their loved ones after they pass away. I hope that one day, in whatever capacity, time travel is possible.
ReplyDeleteHi Manasa! I think if I were given a chance to time travel, especially to the past I would take it, regardless of whether or not I'll be able to alter history. It just seems like an unique experience. It's interesting to see these various proposed models of time travel and how they are based on different concepts in physics. Although, I wonder how practical these theories are and if we will ever be able to develop technology that can apply them. Whatever the case may be, wondering about time travel and its possibilities is always fun.
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