The Final Frontier?
Space the final frontier. These are the voyages of the… Wait a minute, this isn’t about space. Who determined that Space was going to be the final frontier. Sure we have places we haven’t explored yet and Space is a vast… well space… but there are other things to explore. First of all, we already have the tools to explore Space. We send rockets out into the unknown all of the time. I assume we will continue to do that and as the years go by we will increase our knowledge of technology so that we can explore even more.
For me the frontier we need to explore is Time. Time is so much more interesting to me.
Think of all the unknown things that we have discovered here on Earth that we haven’t been able to explain: Stonehenge, Crop Circles, Roswell, and the like. Wouldn’t it be more valuable to us to be able to pinpoint when they happened and go back to that moment and get real data? Think of how much more we could learn from that.
Think about the future. I would hope that we would be able to travel to a time where decisions are made by people who care about the world we live in, not blindly to a party platform or who donated the most money to a candidate. Shouldn’t such a time in the future be worth visiting so that we can return to the present with hope?
I know, the future visited could turn out to be the opposite, but I’m an eternal optimist that it isn’t.
My vision of time travel is that we are allowed to do it, whereby we have no impact on the events that have or will happen. This is a hard concept in reality. You would like the opportunity to interact with the people you see during these times, however, any interaction might change an event that has or will happen. Therefore we would have to be observers, but not observed.
I’m fairly certain that if anyone does discover a way to travel through time, this would not be the case. At least not with the self-centered mindset that seems to pervade a number of inhabitants in power as of this writing. All these individuals would want to change everything that they consider wrong, not based on altruism, but on their own power and greed.
That’s just my opinion. So though I look forward to exploring Time and the knowledge we can gain, I also fear its misuse. Misuse that possibly would make it our final final frontier.
So maybe Space should be the final frontier after all. It seems endless and there will always be new places to go and explore. Let us seek out new worlds and new civilizations and boldly go where no one has gone before (except those that are already there). Maybe we’ll find someone out there that can show us the right way and lead us to be better than who we are.
Time will tell.
