Why time travel is no longer possible
People were not always constrained by the measurements of time. Seconds, hours, days, weeks, years had no meaning to the people of prehistory. They lived their lives in the order that seemed most suited to their own personal style. One moment a boy would be born, the next he would be 29 and the next, he would no longer exist. This would be followed by the next moment, in which he would reappear. A woman would be a grandmother, she would then be a toddler, and then she would be running along the sunny beach as a teen.
This type of life had the benefit of keeping the population low since people existed far fewer days than they didn’t exist. Of course, relationships were not the natural course of being for those who lived as and when they pleased.
Some, who chose to live their lives in order that we use today, found the incessant popping in and out of existence of the others untenable. The chaos that this generated for the Order was too much, and they began to construct temples, measure the paths of the stars and the movement of the moon, even the sun was used to mark the passing of time.
As peer pressure grew, many of the weaker human beings conformed to the idea of a time construct.
Those who didn’t are remembered in the stories of fairies, ghosts and supernatural legends of the past. They faded as society attempted to harness them with rules, laws and marriage. Every once in a while, a particularly strong-willed person is able to live life as and when he or she will. The greatest example of this is Leonardo da Vinci whose genius came from his ability to ignore the social construct of time.
Human beings can only move forward in time in small increments now. Not because time travel is impossible but because people believe that time travel is not possible. Until we are able to break free from our perception of time, we will be trapped in a way of living that we were never really meant to experience unless we consciously chose to.
This type of life had the benefit of keeping the population low since people existed far fewer days than they didn’t exist. Of course, relationships were not the natural course of being for those who lived as and when they pleased.
Some, who chose to live their lives in order that we use today, found the incessant popping in and out of existence of the others untenable. The chaos that this generated for the Order was too much, and they began to construct temples, measure the paths of the stars and the movement of the moon, even the sun was used to mark the passing of time.
As peer pressure grew, many of the weaker human beings conformed to the idea of a time construct.
Those who didn’t are remembered in the stories of fairies, ghosts and supernatural legends of the past. They faded as society attempted to harness them with rules, laws and marriage. Every once in a while, a particularly strong-willed person is able to live life as and when he or she will. The greatest example of this is Leonardo da Vinci whose genius came from his ability to ignore the social construct of time.
Human beings can only move forward in time in small increments now. Not because time travel is impossible but because people believe that time travel is not possible. Until we are able to break free from our perception of time, we will be trapped in a way of living that we were never really meant to experience unless we consciously chose to.