Here we go

It is certainly the everyday distractions that allow focus for the sane.

Or at least that is the conclusion I have come to. . .

Hello, to the infinite world of the wired.

My name is Kat and this is my last ditch effort to stay sane. If you have heard on the news about the situation of the Texas education system then you can understand why an English major is working in retail and feeling a bit clinically mad. The plan was get the paper, get a job, live happily ever after. The plan failed and is smoldering in the depths of the catastrophic plane wreck that was my goal for the future. However, like many of mine colleagues, I have always found solstice in writing and it is for this reason that I have set up this blog. Now. . . what do I write about?

I guess the best topic I can think of is the complexities of time travel. It is a subject that bothers me greatly and is constantly in the unconscious part of my mind while I earn my daily bean.

The first issue that must be addressed is that of the very nature of time travel, then the nature of time and space, then the possible outcomes of such an action. See, I have given it some thought.

Let’s start with the easy part. There are four kinds of time travel. Since time is relative as well as quantitative, there is relative time travel and chronological time travel. Within relative time travel there is time travel to one’s own past and to one’s own future. Within chronological time travel there is time travel to the far past and to the far future.

Time travel to ones own past is essentially moving a person from their current time into that persons past days, years, or minutes. I say person and not persons because we are all living in our own relative time. My grandfather’s past could be entirely different to my own, therefore traveling to one’s own past requires that the traveler have a direct link to the time to which they travel. If someone else is sent into your past it is no longer your past, but either their past or the far past.

This also applies to relative future time travel for the exact same reasons, but also requires an element of space travel and genetic tracking as you do not know where your future self can be found.

Oops! Tempus fugit. Meanwhile, think about it. What’s is your past? How would you describe it? In time? In places? In people? In events?