I’m Going Back Some Day, Come What May, To Blue Bayou

April 3rd, 2008 | by admin |

Time Travel!

What a way to go!

Maybe we all fantasize about traveling back in time “to where I am standing now”… Say 300 years! Or 500 years! Or a Million years.

All of that sounds interesting… String theories. Precognition. Theories of Everything. Perpetual Machines….

But, at least now (being that our brains are so “small”)… I think it is all a little far-fetched.

  1. 3 Responses to “I’m Going Back Some Day, Come What May, To Blue Bayou”

  2. By James Shott on Apr 5, 2008 | Reply

    I’d love to go back to certain times, like when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, to Jesus’ time, to the days of the Constitutional Convention, and to see how the first humans lived.

    I have to believe that with the progress in science that, assuming our culture doesn’t implode, or Muslims don’t kill or dominate everyone in the world, humans will someday be able to travel at the speed of light. At that point, time travel becomes infinitely more possible.

  3. By admin on Apr 7, 2008 | Reply

    Yeah, I was cynical that day… On that day, for instance, if it would have been hot… I would thought of you as a bastard for trying to give me a fan!

    Physics / Astronomy are my hobbies… As I have stated 50,000 times (if I have stated it once), the day that I realized that I was…

    Standing (relatively sideways) on a ball of dirt, rock and water—rotating at around 1100 miles per hour… spinning at approximately 66,000 miles per hour around a huge ball of nuclear fusion… which is about 94 million miles away…

    Life changed for me…

    And, yeah, speed of light… or some kind of wormhole!

    Long live Arthur C. Clarke!

  4. By James Shott on Apr 7, 2008 | Reply

    Amen to that last statement. Clarke was one of my favorites. I haven’t read Sci-Fi for a long time, but he was a genius and one of the best ever. “2001: A Space Odyssey” was a major event in my life when it first came out, and even though more recent films have exceeded the special effects, and even though 2001 in reality wasn’t what Clarke predicted, that movie was huge.

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