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Time travel for dummies
 
 
Frank Cotolo
December 3, 2015
 
There are scientists and mathematicians and even philosophers talking more and more about the concept of time travel. They don't all talk to one another, mind you, and I don't even know who knows whom in those professions but each one of them knows what the other is talking about, while folks who are not in those professions are confused. It is about time, so to speak, that someone takes the concept of time travel and makes it simple.
 
I’m here to do that.
 
All of the hubbub is about the reality of time travel. Can a person go into the past or the future and if so, will that person need a change of clothing? It's a theory but if it were to happen, a person would have to go into a "wormhole". A lot of people stop understanding time travel when they hear that because most people take the term literally. A wormhole is not a hole made by a worm. Simply, a wormhole is a spatial anomaly that transcends the quantum mechanic of gravity.
 
Now that you know that, you understand that a person inside of one would be in a state of flux and a flux state is the best state - better than Alabama - to be transported into another dimension.
 
That is not to assure time travel needs a person to enter another dimension; it just means that a flux state is inside of a wormhole. The obvious question, then, would be this: can flux envelop matter and if it can, what's the matter?
 
Rotating at a speed measurable only in the umpteenths, the person or object in the wormhole, in a state of flux, could spin in place and still warp reality to the extent where petroleum jelly does not exist. This puts into play a notion of movement, the kind that shakes but does not rattle and roll. If that state is reached under particular circumstances that satisfy the conditions needed to allow two objects to be bigger than one another, it is feasible that the person could be displaced from the moment the wormhole existed to allow entry to a time before the wormhole existed in that time frame.
 
It's becoming clear now, right?
 
No equation can truly represent what happens next, other than "X = 678.2 < .03". That, of course, would mean the person in the wormhole could suddenly be transported to the moment a person first drove a Buick. From there, the wormhole could collapse the exit portion and snap so wildly it could suck in matter from the past and place it on the shelves of a Walmart.
 
There you have it, an explanation that any of us can understand. As well, we all see now how dangerous it would be to enter a wormhole and how nauseated we would become, which is why it is recommended that if you know you are entering a wormhole, allow four hours to pass after a meal.
 
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