ambivert: perplexed

went out today. with Beanbag, kye and Tom's Fren (xuanrui, an cat high ex-classmate and a HOT guy). it really beat the hell out of staying at home stoning in front of the computer/tv/book/ceiling. so, first of all, i just wanna say i really enjoyed your company today. to be hanging out together with 3 really different (yet still uber awesome) friends for a day - it couldn't get better.

we watched deja vu, a science-fiction thriller. (yes, kye, i know you dont like that very well; you were dying to watch happy feet. sorry about that, then. it was oh-ah-bey-ah-som. ho ho ho. =P)

BUT watching that movie, it turned out, was a mistake for me. not that i didnt like it. its that i appreciated it so much im starting to question everything inside the movie. and that's leaving me perplexed and dying to get answers (which no one knows for sure.)

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alright, here's the deal. ive finished reading Timeline by Michael Crichton in the past week or so, and that book talked about time travel. some intriguing ideas were presented in the book. (hey, by the way, the book is not bullshit science fiction. it is based on the ideas proposed by actual physicists. Crichton isnt any cheap science fantasy writer, you know.)

first, it is the proposal that time does not move; we move. time is a fixed element that doesnt flow. but to us, time appears to pass because of how we perceive the world through our five senses. hard to visualise, isnt it? coz time no longer takes the conventional form of an arrow.

second is the theory that there are infinite parallel universes, one for each varying course of events that happen: there is a universe in which you are a murderer, a universe in which you are not born, a universe in which you dont blink your eyes at the moment you do in this universe, and the list goes on infinitely. and these universe not only follow your our time. there is one universe for every existing moment in time (infinite too).

so to time travel, we dont reverse time. we cant do that. instead, we travel into these parallel universes of the past.

third, how to do this? well, it is found that space-time on a quantum level (meaning subatomic levels) is disorientated and messy, in the form of a foam, due to the effects of the Big Bang. hence its given the name quantum foam. being foamlike, it is therefore easy to create wormholes that bridge a connection between our universe and other parallel universes. now, recall that there's a universe for every moment of time. if a human can travel through this wormhole into that specific parallel universe, he would in fact be able to time-travel, or at least experience the past.

but how to squeeze a live human being into a subatomic space? for an answer, please read the book. Timeline by Michael Crichton.

now let me get to what happens in deja vu. in the movie, denzel washington was able to travel back in time and prevent a terrorist bombing that killed hundreds from happening. but this kind of time travel is paradoxial (is there a word like this? lol.) coz there's the grandfather's paradox: if i go back in time to kill my grandfather, i would not exist, and so there can be no way for me to kill my grandfather. so he would live if he dies.

but in the movie, changed past events directly result in a changed future. not sound at all, you realise.

SO NOW ITS TIME FOR AMBIVERT'S ULTIMATE PROBLEM SOLVING THEORY!

k, so, based on what i assume is true (there are infinite parallel universes,) this is the theory i've worked out (i think its been thought up by scientists already, so it may not be original.)

there are infinite parallel universes, one for each course of events that happen. these parallel universes are completely independent, and do not affect each other. when denzel washington "time travelled", he was actually transferred into that alternate universe. and when he thought he changed history and prevented the deaths of hundreds, ho ho! he didnt. instead, the course of events of that particular parallel universe IS that the people are saved because of an intervention from someone from another universe (denzel washington). in other words, denzel washington didnt change anything. he simply went WITH the flow of how events took place. while back in the universe he was from, the people still died.

this clears up paradoxes. since the universes are independent, the grandfather paradox is not a problem. i go "back in time" to kill my grandfather, and in that "back in time" universe i was not born. but i was still born in the universe i came from.

so, maybe, after all, we cant change history. not with time travel, not with anything. as one of the characters in the movie said, you cant change what God has planned for us. it is destiny.

...again, im starting to doubt my spirituality.