About Time Machines
Have you ever enjoyed a time machine movie?
Why did you enjoy it? Was it the thought of something you’d change in your own past? Some event in history you’d like to observe passively? Or is human greed or practical need suggesting you should examine stock prices a month or so in the future?
Movies have used this fascinating device to explore love connections, perhaps we could call that the “love is eternal” connection? Others have explored adventures with dinosaurs, spying on past wars, and in trying to find future disasters (hoping to avoid them). Still others seem obsessed with the conundrum of encountering one’s self, or a relative, and causing the universe itself to crash from a temporal short circuit!
There seems to be a common element here, that if such a machine existed, we could absolutely trust the information we obtained from it! If we peeked back to the dinosaur age we would see the exact creatures that became part of the oil reserves from which we just fueled our car. Or by viewing the future we would observe something in politics, finance, business, world events, or some adventure that would be an absolute bit of information guaranteed to take place, and thus make our current-time bet/investment worthwhile.
If you reflect on such premises, the concept assumes that the past or future has a…
