Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "Spark" channel.

  1. I love stories about time travel, I have since I was a kid and some of my favorite movies center on time travel. I would love to go back in the past and change certain events, I think most everyone would, but alas, time is linear. You can skip ahead I suppose if you travel fast enough but moving in the other direction would create loops in the continuum and the universe seems to know that and will not allow it. Let's say I travel back in time. My new self would have to stay on that path, but when the time came I would have to travel back again, and again, and again in order to make that happen. It's like the final scene in the movie Twelve Monkeys. Madeline Stowe looks at Bruce Willis as a child and smiles because she knows, even though Bruce is lying dead in front of her, that they are going have another kick at the can the next time they send him back. I know, it sounds a bit off, but it's either that or you create an entirely new reality with each visit, which is even stranger. No, I'm afraid such conundrums are why time travel to the past is a universal no-no. Time is really a human construct anyway since we use it as a measuring device. When we leave this plane it loses its utility and ceases to be. But like I say, I still love a good time travel story.
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