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A Reader's Response

I have been in contact with iD Ideas & Discoveries, a magazine that has made note of this blog, and through them I have discovered a response handwritten by someone named Roy from Louisiana.

Roy does seem to give pretty good advice on where to go with designing my ideal spacecraft. And I was wondering what impression you fellow readers have by looking at the response. It seems to me that he thinks with my current method, my spacecraft and I would be blown to smithereens. He seems to be suggesting a fusion or fission machine.

I have the response in a series of 3 photos made by the magazine. What do you people think?

Your Thoughts?

Just so my fellow readers know, I have made the ability to post comments available to anyone who would like to share their ideas with me, and that includes anonymous users, or those that are not logged into Google+ or Blogger. I am open to discussion anytime.

Even though I have a deep interest in all topics covered in my first post, there is one particular topic of these that I'd like some feedback on, and that is on faster-than-light space travel, particularly on my model of a futuristic spacecraft as seen at the end of the previous post. Therefore, the comments that I best recommend here are those that convey ideas on how to improve my model spacecraft, if necessary.

I have to admit myself, I have a deep interest in traveling to the far reaches of the universe, coming in contact with extraterrestrial beings, seeking advice and counsel from them regarding time travel, and ultimately, changing history for the better.

Please, if you feel the urge, feel free to post a comment here. Otherwise, you can Email me at my Gmail address included in my profile.

My Preliminary Thoughts

Have you ever wished you could travel to planets in our solar system within seconds, or perhaps planets light-years away from Earth in a matter of minutes? Have you ever wondered if there were extraterrestrial civilizations in our universe, and if so, how to come in contact with them? Ever desired to change horrific events in our history, such as the sinking of the Titanic, the Holocaust, the 9/11 attacks, or perhaps the rise of communism?

The question about traveling in convenient time to planets in our solar system and beyond requires the concept of faster-than-light travel, of course. The question on changing events in the past obviously suggests a discussion about time travel. However, you may be wondering about the remaining question, which deals with the possibility of civilizations existing outside the Earth. Well, that question might actually be connected with both theories.

It would be logical for faster-than-light travel to be implemented with the purpose of visiting extraterrestrial planets and civilizations. It would be more expedient to go to distant planets within a relatively short amount of time. After all, our nearest star other than the Sun, Alpha Centauri, is about two dozen light-years away from Earth. This would mean that it would take that many years to get to that star if traveling at the speed of light.

On the other hand, I feel there are likely to be extraterrestrial civilizations that have a deeper understanding of time travel than the vast majority of people here on Earth. Species coming from such advanced civilizations would see the universe in greater detail, and probably very differently. They may very well be aware of diverse methods of time travel, both that the human mind can conceive (such as a time machine, wormhole travel, and the action of traveling near the speed of light), and those that most of us would be unable to comprehend. We could learn a great deal about the subject of time travel from such extraterrestrial species.

The idea that nothing can surpass the speed of light has become a mainstream theory among people in the scientific world. It has also been argued by prominent scientists such as Stephen Hawking that people and things would appear to move in slow motion if they were inside a vessel traveling close to the speed of light, thereby protecting the alleged universal speed limit. While this seems to make some sense, it also brings issues of gravity into play, due to the fact that gravity can vary, making two entities of the same weight move at different speeds downward. I personally think that the concept of gravity is very possibly something most humans understand only vaguely, and that if we knew more about that and how it can be manipulated, we could unlock more secrets about the physics of the universe, such as how to break the light barrier.

While time travel into the future is widely accepted as being possible, time travel into the past is still a debatable topic among scientists. For one thing, someone could argue that if time travel into the past were possible, wouldn't there be people from the distant future appearing in plain sight in present times? Another individual might bring up the grandfather paradox, a theory that has been greatly propagated by scientists on the subject of time travel into the past. The grandfather paradox involves someone who travels into the past and kills his grandfather before he was even born, thus preventing his own existence as well as his ability to travel into the past! I have come across mention and discussion of the grandfather paradox many times, but such a theory, as well as that about time travelers from the future, fails to alter my belief in time travel to the past. This is because I have a theory answering why there are no known sightings of time travelers, and an alternative to the grandfather paradox, both of which I will discuss later on.

Despite the fact that the notion of a universal speed limit of light is well-established in science today, I am one to believe that there is actually no universal speed limit whatsoever. After all, sound is a form of energy just like light is, and man on Earth has already surpassed the speed of sound; so why shouldn't we be able to break the light barrier? Some of the greatest minds Earth has produced have said things like “Whatever the mind can conceive, it can achieve” and “Only the mind of an individual can limit what that individual can or cannot do.” I am a firm believer in this kind of philosophy, so I feel I can say with certainty that there are no external forces that can govern, control, or restrain what anyone is capable of doing or receiving. Naturally, this would apply to everything, including speed.

In 2012, I drew up sketches of an ideal superluminal spacecraft (see scanned photos attached at the bottom of this post). As can be seen, the model would have varying speeds the spacecraft will be able to travel at. My ideal spacecraft would work like this: it spews some kind of magnetic energy that would make it move through space in a desired direction in a similar manner to the way black holes (which light cannot escape from) would suck in like a vacuum anything that approaches it; the magnetic energy is fueled by colliding matter with anti-matter. Certain kinds of crystals may also be of use as fuel in a superluminal spacecraft.

Another mechanism that might make faster-than-light travel possible is the implementation of a sort of bubble encircling the spacecraft, with the purpose of maintaining the normal levels of gravity inside that we have on Earth, as well as protecting the spacecraft from external gravitational forces. This may be necessary since the E = mc2 equation devised by Albert Einstein would indicate that the faster an object gets, the greater its mass becomes; this would bring gravitational issues into play, as objects with greater mass tend to weigh more than those with lesser mass. Putting this in perspective, a person inside a spacecraft traveling close to the speed of light would have much trouble moving around inside due to the issues involving gravity. So the bubble might turn out to be a beneficial addition to the design of superluminal spacecrafts.

As I have discussed earlier, time travel, particularly that to the past, is a hotly debated topic among mainstream scientists. The first common argument I have mentioned is that no known time traveler from the future has made a recorded appearance in the past or the present. This is very possibly because time travelers in the future cannot visit the past; this is not because no one will ever be capable of visiting (or changing) the past through time travel, but because the people who have yet to go back in time are from the future, and the future has not happened yet! I believe we currently live in a different plane of existence, likely a different dimension of time, than people of future times will be living in (if this is the case, this future dimension of time has yet to come into existence; this means that future Earth people do not exist yet, or those among us on Earth currently existing have not traveled through time yet). Once we discover how to time travel to both the past and the future, the door will be opened for one to travel at his/her own free will to anywhere at any place in either direction in time.

The possibility of extraterrestrials having knowledge of time travel was discussed earlier; with that in mind, one may argue “If there’s any alien species that currently have a thorough knowledge of time travel, why aren't they visiting and/or changing the past?” This is my answer, which I find pretty straightforward: These aliens are not officially a part of human civilization on Earth. Just like the fact that extraterrestrials have not yet made mainstream appearances in this human society in present times, they will naturally not travel to or change the past themselves. They want someone to come and learn about extraterrestrial cultures, histories, time travel, etc. himself. However, this would probably not apply to all people, since many of us are malevolent by nature, or have a willingness to exploit extraterrestrial civilizations for their own power and fortune, often leading to disastrous results.

The grandfather paradox card has been pulled out by debunkers of time travel to the past repeatedly, and it makes sense naturally, as it is logically impossible to kill your past self or an ancestor because you couldn’t do such a thing without existing; and you would not exist at all if anyone killed your grandfather before your would-be father or mother was born. However, I believe there are ways of changing the past that can work and those that cannot. The grandfather paradox scenario I feel is a method that cannot work since it involves a conflict between individual and self or antecedent (direct ancestor) where one action negates the other. But unlike other time travel theorists, I don’t think the paradox rules out the possibility of time travel to the past or changing it, for that matter. Perhaps you wouldn’t have to change the past by taking any physical action yourself. One potentially possible way that comes to mind is a sort of telepathic mind control, or influence over people living during the past. It would work like this:  You would travel to the past via a wormhole, time machine, etc., and to come in contact with someone of the past, you would use a sort of device that would pinpoint that individual and make an invisible connection between your mind and his.

For instance, you might want to come in contact with the captain of the Titanic, or someone in the past having access to reach him back in 1912, well before the Titanic hit the iceberg that caused its sinking. You might not want to be noticed by the captain or anyone else around him as a stranger, so you would then use something to make you invisible and if necessary, perhaps, untouchable. Then what you would do is use the telepathic device for the connection between your mind and the mind of the captain or another person living at that time in 1912, and concentrate on using your mind energy to get your ideas across to that person, and on getting the person to think more reasonably along the lines of your thinking. The captain would then realize the potential danger, or listen to someone trying to warn him; then the Titanic would be steered away from peril, and the tragic event would never have happened. It would be as if there were no external force(s) controlling the actions of any individual; no one would notice what made them alter their thinking, as they would think they did it themselves. Now, I’m not necessarily encouraging such a series of actions on anyone’s part in this case, but hopefully readers can understand my concepts with this series of possible events.

While the idea of a faster form of space travel is undoubtedly essential for exploring more of the universe, you may want to ask something like "Why would you want to change history?" People have said numerous times that, given the possibility of changing the past, if you altered anything in the past one iota, such as killing an insect that would have lived on otherwise, present times would turn out much different (often argued to be for the worse) than what could have been had the bug not been killed (thus the so-called "butterfly effect"). However, it seems to me to be a way of discouraging the action of changing the past due to a kind of hostility to change, or just so that any history as we know it could be preserved and would not have to be revised. My answer to the question of why history could (or should) be changed is rather simple: There are numerous aspects of Earth's societies and cultures that are flawed, which are overall due to the fact that history keeps repeating itself; the same mistakes are repeated constantly throughout history (particularly modern) as we know it, and it is as if most of us never learn from our mistakes. In order to advance the human race, a generally benevolent species, out of primitivism compared to the much more advanced benevolent races elsewhere in the universe, it seems logical to assume that at least some things in our history cannot remain set in stone.