April 2003

"'TIME-TRAVELER' BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
By CHAD KULTGEN

NEW YORK -- Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading charges -- and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!"

Source: http://tv.yahoo.com/news

Last week I coincidentally stumbled upon a link in a blog somewhere on the web that led me to the Yahoo-site linked above here. At first I was amused. But merely, because the reporter, or writer of the article, had made it sound like a completely ridiculous thing.
But when I read through the story, and a couple of times again, I started thinking.
Is it really such an impossible thing? Is it really so ridiculous?
I'm an open-minded person, at least I tend to think I am, and it's not like I would blindly believe everything someone says, but imagine... Just imagine, "what if...?"
Stephen Hawking in A Brief History of Time and Brian Green in The Elegant Universe already talk about time-warping and theories about time-traveling. And it's pretty much theoretically proven that the possibility is present in physics' laws, it's just that no one has ever succeeded in doing such in practise.
But does that mean it's impossible and ridiculous?
If you would've told someone 150 years ago that we would be flying through the air at eleven kms height from one side of the world to the other side of the world, you would've been convicted a witch or sorcerer and burnt to death. If you would've told someone some 100 years ago about "cars", they'd probably think you drank a bit too much. If you would've told someone 75 years ago that the whole world would cling together on something called the "Internet" they would've thought that you'd completely lost it. And there's loads of examples to give about things alike.
Even in these days if you tell someone ghosts do exist and you don't need your physical body to travel, or that there's extraterrestrial intelligence somewhere out there, they would probably put you in a mental institute or think you are completely out of your mind.
But people have become so aware of material things and so oblivious to everything that's not straight under their noses that they stopped believing in everything that's "different".
But let's look a bit further than our material world, and check out the possibilities in areas that we are not familiar with. And suppose...

The only thing that I found unbelievable to the story of the "time-traveler" is that our planet actually still exists in 2256. I mean... If you look at the tempo that we're destroying it with... It's difficult to believe that there's any time left to time-travel in.
Unless ofcourse in time we travel back in time to kick our ancestors' asses and tell them to take care of what's given to them to take care of and make sure that there's something still for their kids to live in and that there's time left to time-travel back to...