The will to time-travel

[Ripheus23]

It occurred to me that there might be a natural reason for people to want time-travel to be possible, and to reflect on its impossibility from a sort of wheedling stance. Namely, we often seem to think that the only way to make up, for sure, for some wrongs, would be to time-travel and "make a different choice." However, if this is not possible, but if redemption is possible, then redemption does not require time-travel. In fact, time-travel as such would be more like a time-"rewind" that would leave us unaware of the future course of events that led to the rewind. If our free will is enacted in specific times, as such, maybe we could make a different choice but we would probably never know that we had "originally" made the wrong one.

Anyway, we do not leave infinite copies of ourselves in the past, so even if we traveled into the past more "literally," then besides our moving into the past of the space we are currently in, we would probably find ourselves deposited in outer space, relative to the Earth (the Earth, btw, does not leave copies either!), or, more strictly, into a total void---no matter at all, all of this having moved (with its universe) into the future.

So, if a false belief about redemption corrupts our beliefs about the nature of time (that "time-travel" is possible), does this mean a false theory of redemption can corrupt our entire theory of physical reality? For a concept of time in which time-travel is possible, violates the laws of actual physical reality, and so is not applicable to the real world.

Edited May 9, 2019 by Ripheus23

[+Doomstick he/him]

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!

[Mushroom Catalog he/him]

I read a story like this once. A kid's dad made a time machine, something dramatic happens, kid goes in machine, then dies in the cold of space. It was a bit depressing.  

Besides, we all travel through time all the time. We just don't turn around and go back through it.