Time Travel and the Judgement Day?
My 12-year-old son, Osama, is a voracious reader. Recently he saw the movie "The Time Machine" and expressed a wish to read the original H.G.Wells book, so I got it for him. He just finished reading it yesterday.I asked him how he liked it and he said it was fun to read although the ending was "weird" (I think kids in general these days expect happy endings and the book ends with the Time Traveler disappearing with his machine, never to return, and the narrator wondering, so to speak, "when he went" and what happened to him but having no way of finding out).
Now you're probably wondering why I think this is a subject for Ihsan? Well, the reason is that my son told me "Actually, I don't believe that it could be possible to travel through time." I said, "Why? The theory of relativity says that Time is a dimension like the three spatial ones so theoretically one could go backwards and forwards in it," and he said "But the Day of Judgement is the END of time, and since it has a definite end, I think you could not go backwards and forwards in it like an ordinary dimension."
I had never thought about the concept of the Judgement Day juxtaposed with the concept of time travel - in fact, it raises all kinds of questions that I guess I normally don't ask, as the concept of the Judgement Day is really difficult for me to comprehend, given the fact that Time is a dimension. So, thoughts on this?
posted by Anna in PDX at
12/08/2004 10:08:00 PM
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Then again what do I know...Just random thoughts. :)
Salams...Azeem
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whalesoundervish, at
12/08/2004 10:57:00 PM
Are you familiar with the research of Ian Stevenson? I read about him in a book called "Old Souls." You can find out more about him here:
http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/personalitystudies/
I have never had any experience leading me to believe in reincarnation. And I come from a family of ultra-rationalists. But Stevenson seems to be quite a serious person. And he's collected case studies that are difficult to explain in other ways.
One thing Stevenson has found is that (as you may know) experiences like yours are not so uncommon. However, the willingness of parents, etc. to listen to such things varies greatly from culture to culture.
That said, I remain a very great skeptic. Still... what we DO know about the world is so weird, while our ability to perceive it so limited, that I wouldn't be surprised by anything.
best,
Jon Schwarz
http://www.tinyrevolution.com
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12/09/2004 02:43:00 AM
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Danya, at
12/09/2004 06:51:00 PM
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