Essay On Time Travel

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The philosophical questions concerning time have long been in the focus of thinkers. Due to the constraints of being a human (i.e. the human experience of the world and of physical phenomena should be regarded primarily as a psychological experience), which confines us to live and think in a certain system with limitations preventing us from looking at, for example, our galaxy or other galaxies as an outsider, leaves us short of data which would be crucial for answering our questions. Moreover, the solutions offered by the different tracks of thought experiments do not yield sufficient results for the lack of opportunity to prove the findings in a physical experiment (e.g. if time travel is possible, why hasn’t anyone been on one? If not, what…show more content…
The statements are as follows: Statement 1. Time goes from the past to the future Statement 2. The present, which divides the past from the future, is now Statement 3. The past never comes back Statement 4. We cannot change the past but we can change the…show more content…
In an answer to Price’s question3, Maudlin offers the example of determining a fair rate of exchange between currencies by the equality of purchasing power, from which it follows on that the exchange rate of the same currency must be 1:1 (e. g. one pound per pound). Hence, the correct answer to the question of how fast time flows could be one second per second. The real problem with this answer is – as Price pointed it out – that we are defining something by the same thing, and the rate appears to be uninformative to the extent as having spatial rates in the same trivial sense (i. e. how many miles does a traveller encounter per mile during their journey?), leaving us wondering between the difference between space and time in terms of flow, as in the aforementioned notion, the only difference between the two is that one passes one second per second, and the other is one mile per
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