so I just had a really interesting idea for a story. sci-fi
the idea came up when I was thinking about our perception of reality and dimensions. obviously we perceive 3 dimensions. length, width, height. and the 4th dimension is generally agreed to be time. but we don't perceive time like we do the other 3 because we can't confine it. we can't see a beginning and an end.
so i thought, what if they finally invented the time machine, but it was more of an implant. not so much a time machine, but an upgrade to the brain, so you could perceive your entire existance, from the moment it was attached to you to the time of your death, you would know your existance, your future, as you know your past. possibly better, clearer. the mechanism would have to have added memory and other such things to help your brain process it as that much information would be a bit much to handle. basicly, you would no longer perceive your life in linear time.
now ofcourse the problem with any time travel, is to know the future in the past, is to change the future from the past, thus removing the future that gave you the information in the first place. a paradox.
so if you knew your own future, obviously you would use that knowledge to better your own situation, which would change that future, so how could you know a future that is constantly shifting.
but we're going back to science fiction. let's just assume that with the implant you can view all splits in your future decisions.
then toss in things like, morality decisions, future technology.
whatever, I've lost the thread, I think to much in the bathroom.
the idea came up when I was thinking about our perception of reality and dimensions. obviously we perceive 3 dimensions. length, width, height. and the 4th dimension is generally agreed to be time. but we don't perceive time like we do the other 3 because we can't confine it. we can't see a beginning and an end.
so i thought, what if they finally invented the time machine, but it was more of an implant. not so much a time machine, but an upgrade to the brain, so you could perceive your entire existance, from the moment it was attached to you to the time of your death, you would know your existance, your future, as you know your past. possibly better, clearer. the mechanism would have to have added memory and other such things to help your brain process it as that much information would be a bit much to handle. basicly, you would no longer perceive your life in linear time.
now ofcourse the problem with any time travel, is to know the future in the past, is to change the future from the past, thus removing the future that gave you the information in the first place. a paradox.
so if you knew your own future, obviously you would use that knowledge to better your own situation, which would change that future, so how could you know a future that is constantly shifting.
but we're going back to science fiction. let's just assume that with the implant you can view all splits in your future decisions.
then toss in things like, morality decisions, future technology.
whatever, I've lost the thread, I think to much in the bathroom.