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Troubles with time traveling
By Tristan Tandberg
Statesman staff writer
According to string theory, there are 11 dimensions. Right now we only know 4: length, width, height and time.
There are a lot of Christopher Columbus' out there who want to discover the fifth dimension.
But, there is no point in discovering the fifth dimension; because right now we barely know how to travel through the fourth dimension of time.
You can tell we don't know how to time travel. Because after we leave a movie with time travel in it; people are always arguing in the lobby over the correct way to time travel and the incorrect method that was shown in the movie.
After a movie people don't argue over how traveling works in the first three dimensions. "Oh that main character shouldn't of been able to turn left?" or "I don't know how they were able to avoid running into that 3-dimensional object there?" or "Hey wasn't it weird how that car went straight?"
I am not mad that we don't know how to time travel, I'm just mad that we don't know how to talk about time travel. When it comes to the fourth dimension no one knows what's going on. If we can't figure out this simple aspect of the fourth dimension what the heck would we do with a fifth dimension?
Maybe it's a good thing that we don't know how to travel time. As hard as it is to understandhow to travel time, it's even harder to understand that you can't go back in time because you will screw everything up!!
Some hero will say, "But that bad guy went back in time." Just tell that hero, "NO! I don't care what that bad guy did. I mean if the bad guy jumped off a cliff would you do it too?"
