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Originally Posted by CDavidNeely
Greetings and Felicitations,
The operative word is: was. Time does not operate by the same rules. We live in the moment and the future is past the moment. Until it becomes present it is nothing more than a possibility. The future is beyond our perception because it hasn't happened yet. We can project possibilities but we cannot see the future despite the best wishes of psychics and prophets.
Sincerely Yours,
C. David Neely
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True, but the future is relative, i. e. to the dude living in July 18, 1687, the future is July 19, 1687. To us, it's the past.
This relativism is also created by spacetime curvature and the speed of light limit--different frames of reference in which a creature in one region of the universe will perceive as the present something that already happened, i. e. when we see something happen a million light years away with our telescope,
what exactly happens a second after that is chaotic possibility to us, but to a being nearer to that point in space, possibility, the past.
You brought up the Alcubierre Warp drive, which presents a
theoretically valid geometry of spacetime that allows FTL travel, i. e. reverse time travel in specific frames of reference (one of which may be our own). So if that's possible then the past is
also chaotic possibilities
assuming a single timeline, since if a person goes back in time--which someone could if he figured out how to create an Alcubierre-like metric, then the present, as we know it, is a chaotic variable--could be anything, depending on the effects of what that time traveler did.
And I really don't think you believe what you said about time.
What you described as the "rules" under which time operates in fact only refers to the human
perception of time as linear and sequential. Time is just another dimension (which may contain its own subdimensions, i. e. up, sideways, in/out) that can be perceived and represented in several ways.