Bending Time

Have you ever thought about bending time?

I guess in order to think about bending time, you'd kinda have to think about how time works first. See, most people assume that time is a straight line from beginning to end, but as The Doctor once said, "from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey wimey... stuff."

Ok, so maybe a strict progression of time would make a little more sense in this context.

But no matter how you see the universe we call Time, surely you've thought about bending it. I mean, it's a little harder to bend a ball, but clearly if it's wibbly-wobbly then it's unstable enough to bend. "Get to the point, Alex!" is what you might be saying right now, but then again, maybe you've already said it.

It occurred to me as I walked through a local museum of science the other day that time is extremely relative and subjective. Not just to whom is viewing time, but rather HOW they are experiencing time. See, when we think of time being linear, we assume that everything happens at the same time with the same speed. But as I walked through the Explore the Universe exhibit, I noticed something I hadn't really thought about before- The stars we see in the sky could very well be dead right now, but it will take us hundreds of years to be able to tell.

Hold up a minute. Are you saying that we can see into the past?

Why yes I am, thank you for clarifying! But I'm sure many of you already knew that. In this case, the speed at which light travels is the limitation for the speed at which time can occur, so when the distance between two objects is further than the speed of light, time is slowed.

So that's one sort of time-bending we can do, but what about the others?

I'm sure anyone who's reading this knows what a sonic boom is. Basically, when something travels faster than the speed of sound, it creates a large booming noise. If you've ever been to a fighter plane show, you would know that following the sonic boom is... nothing. For probably around 5 seconds, maybe more, maybe less, nothing can be heard because the sound is still attempting to reach our ears. So what does that mean? Sure, technically the plane is moving out of time, but it makes much more sense to say that we are getting an out-of-time experience. We hear into the past by listening to the noise of an airplane 5 seconds after it was supposed to happen.

In all reality, this can happen with all of our senses, though with little practicality for smell and taste. But do you get the idea? Time can be bent, though it takes a lot of energy or space to do so. With enough incentive, we can do what we felt was impossible. We can break the laws of the universe(s).

So maybe, just maybe, if given enough time and space,

We could build bridges back to memories,

We could relive memories,

We could feel memories,

Strong enough to break the bond

Between

Universes.