So, here’s an interesting bit of discussion I had with my roommate. Before you go to read it, I should probably introduce my roomie properly. Neel Deshmukh is a guy with seriously radical ideas about everything. Someday he would wake me up saying he has figured out why murderers and looters are imperative for our survival and on other days I would find myself getting a discourse about why Oedipus complex is actually true. Though this post does not delve into greater details about the abovementioned things, it still has some really interesting ideas.
Lately, we have been watching The Big Bang Theory and in one of the episodes, Sheldon brings up Time Travel. (This was about 2 weeks ago). So yesterday, Hitesh, Neel and I were on our way for a treat and out of nowhere Neel says, “There are 2 types of time travel possible”. (One could almost hear Hitesh say “Here We Go!” in his head… but BBT apart…) So there could be 2 ways a person could time travel.
1) Parallel Universe Theory
2) Pure Time Travel
(For the sake of all illustrations, we would be assuming that time travel came into existence in 2015 and every time you travel back in time would be from this point)
Parallel Universe Theory: The theory states that initially (before time travel is invented) there is a single universe. When a person time travels (say to a point t in time), a new universe having exactly the same properties (till the time t) as the previous one is created. From t till 2015 you would exist in both the universes and in 2015, you will cease to exist in the old universe. But for all practical purposes, the “new-universe you” will have no trouble with this and will continue to live in his altered universe. Every time a person travels back in time and brings about some change in the universe, he would create a parallel universe which would be different form the one where he time travelled from.
Let me illustrate this with an example. Suppose you had a girlfriend in 2009. You were on a date, everything was going fine, and a hot blonde waitress comes up to you and you just couldn’t help checking her out. For some reason, this angers “yours forever” and BAM! You no longer have a girlfriend. So, in 2015, you are desperate and needy and lonely and you come across this amazing thing called the time machine. You travel back in time to 2009 and just tweak the details. Instead of going to Pizza Hut (where you) you decide to get pizzas delivered to your place (just to be safe!). According to this theory, now you have 2 universes. One where you eventually end up needy and lonely and use the time machine and disappear from that universe, the other where you might still possibly be holding on to your girlfriend. The original universe would continue to exist after 2015 without you as a part of it.
References for Parallel Universe Theory:
1) The Butterfly Effect
2) Cube
3) Twelve Monkeys
Coming up in the Next Post …. Pure Time Travel …
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Hey dude,
ReplyDeleteWelcum to the bloggin mania. Good post. I've seen documentories on this thing. its awesome. And just so to let u know, ppl like us wud check out the hot pizza delivery girl and end up alone n needy in every damn universe....
-- Rohan
@Rohan...
ReplyDeleteYou can always go back and rip out your eyes(based on the assumption that your girlfriend is really sensitive and she won't leave your side even when you are blind)..
Or if you don't mind being criminal just go back and kill the f**king Blonde(People like us are not gonna get her anyway..:P)
well how the hell is butterfly effect a part of parallel time travel??
ReplyDeletewell the beloved hero goes back every time and changes something....and ends up in completely different version of his life....
ReplyDeletethe result is something which can be viewed as one achieved by using parallel universe time travel(although they haven't shown different universes in the original movie..)