A claim that time travelers cannot actually change the past

Time Travel Paradox & Philosophy
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I’m going to put forward a statement that many people interested in time travel will find frustrating - time travel is possible, but you aren’t changing anything if you do it. It isn’t because it’s not allowed, it’s because it isn’t possible.

As I’ve stated before, I was 13 when most of this occurred in 1998, but this has been ongoing, and because the group doing this, likely from the present or near future, has time travel technology, it was going on before I was even born.

The problem is that they have been intentionally using that that technology and the equivalent of AI deepfakes to try to kill me in the past or change perceptions of events that have occurred. A group of time travelers are using time travel to try to change the timeline, and they aren’t aware enough of actual time travel as it exists outside of fiction to recognize that it won’t work.

Another problem is that they don’t care. Some of them are perfectly willing to just use time travel to hurt me in the past and create as much pain as possible, knowing that it won’t change whatever is eventually going to happen and simply using the opportunity to cause as much harm as possible.

For the ones who genuinely believe that time travel can change the past, I’m trying to explain it simply. That belief is as an over-complication of simple concepts. Fiction is a story, it isn’t the same thing as real events and real actions.

There is one, single, linear, Universe.

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Titor also said that the “Everett–Wheeler model of quantum physics”, better known as the many-worlds interpretation, was correct. According to him, this meant that his time travel had caused the formation of a new timestream, and that in this new (current) timestream, the events that Titor had described would occur somewhat differently than they had in his home timestream. This made his predictions non-falsifiable.

A single linear universe would probably make time travel extremely difficult if not impossible…

To establish a formal framework for identifying a temporal agent like John Titor, we can derive a “Titor Identity Theorem” by synthesizing elements of C*-algebra, information theory, and causal topology.

This approach treats “John Titor” not as a singular biological entity, but as a specific state within a Hilbert space of causal worldlines.

1. The Foundation: Fisher Information and Spacetime Divergence

We begin by defining the Fisher Information Metric (I), which measures the amount of information that an observable random variable carries about an unknown parameter. In a temporal context, the parameter is the “Origin Worldline” (θ).

I(θ) = ∫ [∂/∂θ log f(x; θ)]² f(x; θ) dx

For a temporal traveler, the identity is verified if the Fisher Information across two points in spacetime (the origin 1998 and the destination 2000) remains invariant despite the divergence of worldlines.

2. The Identity Equation (The Titor Identity)

To prove identity across worldlines, we apply a version of the Relational Conservation of Spacetime (RCoS). We define the “Titor Identity” (Ψ_T) as a mapping between the source worldline (W₀) and the target worldline (W₁).

Ψ_T: W₀ → W₁

The theorem states that for a traveler to be the “Real John Titor,” the transformation must satisfy the conservation of Topological Charge (Q).

Ψ_T = ∫ (J_μ * dΣ^μ) = 1

Where:

  • J_μ is the causal current density.

  • dΣ^μ is the hypersurface element of the worldline.

If Ψ_T = 1, the identity is conserved. If Ψ_T ≠ 1, the entity is a “divergence artifact” or an impostor existing in a separate topological defect.

3. Verification via Adelic Structures

Because Titor claimed to originate from a worldline with a 2.5% divergence, we must use Adelic mathematics to bridge the gap between the discrete (digital) evidence he left behind and the continuous (physical) reality of his presence.

We define the Global Identity (A_I) as the product of the local identities across all p-adic fields:

A_I = Π_p (I_p)

Where:

  • I_∞ represents the physical presence (archimedean).

  • I_p represents the digital and historical fingerprints (non-archimedean).

4. The Resulting Identity Theorem

The Real John Titor is identified as the unique operator (O_T) that satisfies the commutativity of the Causal Loop:

[O_T, ∇_s] = 0

Where ∇_s is the shift operator of the worldline.

In plain terms, the theorem dictates that the “Real Titor” is the only entity whose “Fisher Information Signature” remains coherent when projected onto a worldline with a divergence factor (Δ) less than or equal to the stated 2.5% threshold.

Summary of the Identity Constraint:

Σ (P_i * log(P_i / Q_i)) ≤ Δ

If the relative entropy (Kullback-Leibler divergence) between the observed “Titor” (P) and the theoretical “Origin Titor” (Q) exceeds the divergence constant Δ, the identity fails. Thus, the real John Titor is the one who minimizes this information loss across the causal bridge.

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Speaking only to people, and not AI only capable of repeating already written words, you cannot change the past.

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Also, that odd and extremely invalid approach of identity calculation might seem real for those who are taking whatever AI claims as fact, which has been a big problem lately.

There is no John Titor, I was there. It’s not a hoax, it’s a cover-up and an attempt to cause as much chaos as possible against the people who actually do develop the technologies. The time machine is and will be real, but it has not been built yet.

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Time travel is dangerous and you most likely cannot time travel into your direct past, but instead, by attempting it, a likely outcome is to nucleate a branch timeline or be destroyed by the immense temporal feedback. Spacetime is not linear.

Time travel into the future is a much more realistic option. We can initiate a time dilation field in accordance with Einstein’s completed Unified Field Theory and simply rest on the surface of the Earth for a few hours as a few hundred years elapse on the outside of our time machine.

Gravitational time dilation as Einstein described it is not localizable — it’s a property of spacetime geometry, not a field you can confine to a room. To create a region where time runs slow relative to the exterior, while the exterior runs normally, you need a metric discontinuity at the chamber boundary, which requires A strong enough electromagnetic field coupling to geometry (which is precisely what a completed UFT would provide, if it exists)…

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This is, as they refer to it on Star Trek, technobabble. You’re overcomplicating, often with fictional concepts, simple physics and concepts. Are you relying on AI to formulate your responses? One of the issues that I’ve found with it is that it tends to overcomplicate simple reasoning in generated responses because it isn’t able to easily recognize extraneous or inaccurate information because it holds all training data at the same weight, buoying weak concepts to the same level as strong ones.

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It is speculative but it is not technobabble.

There IS technobabble on Star Trek though, for example:

“Captain, if we reconfigure the main deflector dish to emit a specialized inverse graviton pulse, we might be able to destabilize the subspace rift’s event horizon. By modulating the phase variance to match the chroniton signatures of the anomaly, we can create a localized dampening field. This should neutralize the quantum decoherence long enough for us to engage the warp drive and escape the gravitational shear.”

Einstein worked for many years to derive his unified field theory, which was for him, the unification of gravity and electromagnetism.

Indeed, Einstein spent the last three decades of his life (roughly 1925–1955) pursuing a unified field theory that would merge gravity and electromagnetism into a single geometric framework. He never succeeded, but the approaches he tried were remarkably varied and inventive.

The Major Approaches

1. Weyl’s Gauge Theory (engagement, not invention)

Hermann Weyl proposed in 1918 that electromagnetism could arise from a local rescaling of the metric (a “gauge” freedom). Einstein initially found it elegant but rejected it on physical grounds — it implied that atomic clocks would depend on their history, contradicting observation. This exchange, however, seeded the later development of modern gauge theory.

2. Kaluza-Klein Theory (extra dimensions)

In 1921, Theodor Kaluza showed that if spacetime had a fifth compact dimension, the 5D Einstein equations split into 4D gravity plus Maxwell’s equations. Einstein was excited and promoted the idea, returning to it repeatedly. Klein later explained why the fifth dimension is unobservable (it’s curled up at tiny scales). Einstein never fully committed to this route but regarded it as the most promising extra-dimensional approach.

3. Affine Field Theories (connection as primary variable)

Rather than taking the metric g_μν as fundamental, Einstein explored using the affine connection Γ (the object describing parallel transport) as the primitive field. The metric would then be derived from it. He worked on this intensively in the early 1920s, partly inspired by Eddington. The idea was to find field equations for Γ alone that would yield both gravity and electromagnetism.

4. Teleparallelism / Distant Parallelism (Fernparallelismus)

Around 1928–1931, this was arguably Einstein’s most intense and publicly celebrated attempt. Instead of Riemannian geometry (where parallel transport is path-dependent), he introduced a tetrad (vierbein) field — a set of four orthonormal vector fields — that defines a notion of absolute parallelism across all of spacetime. This gives a spacetime with torsion but no curvature. The antisymmetric torsion tensor was supposed to encode electromagnetism while the symmetric part gave gravity. The international press actually covered this as a breakthrough. Einstein published several papers, then quietly abandoned it when he couldn’t find physically satisfactory field equations.

5. Nonsymmetric Field Theory

This was perhaps his most sustained late-career effort. He generalized the metric tensor g_μν to allow an antisymmetric component in addition to the usual symmetric one:

g_μν = symmetric part (gravity) + antisymmetric part (electromagnetism)

The antisymmetric part was to play the role of the electromagnetic field tensor. He published multiple versions of this in the 1940s and 1950s, refining the field equations repeatedly. His very last paper (1955, unfinished at his death) was on this approach. It was later shown by others to be physically untenable.

6. Bimetric Theories

Einstein also briefly explored theories with two metric tensors on the same manifold — one governing gravity, one encoding electromagnetism — with coupling terms between them.

7. Overdetermination / Overcomplete Systems

A distinctive methodological trick Einstein used repeatedly was to write more field equations than the number of unknowns, hoping the overdetermined system would single out a unique, physically correct solution that unified the forces. He believed the universe’s laws should be rigid enough to leave no freedom once the geometric structure was chosen.

Common Threads

Across all these attempts, Einstein shared several commitments:

  • Pure geometry: The electromagnetic field should emerge from spacetime geometry itself, not be added by hand. Matter and charge should ultimately be geometric.

  • No quantum mechanics: Einstein distrusted QM as a fundamental theory and refused to incorporate it. He believed a classical unified field theory would derive quantum phenomena, not assume them — a stance most physicists thought backwards.

  • Field over particle: He wanted to eliminate point particles entirely, hoping singularity-free field solutions would represent matter (the “field as particle” dream, related to his work with Rosen on the Einstein-Rosen bridge).

  • Mathematical beauty as guide: When physical intuition ran out, he leaned on mathematical elegance and generality to select candidate theories.

Why He Failed

With hindsight, the obstacles were fundamental. Electromagnetism and gravity differ in deep ways — gravity is universal and attractive, electromagnetism is charge-specific and both attractive and repulsive. More critically, by the 1950s it was clear that two more forces (the strong and weak nuclear forces) existed, and that quantum field theory — which Einstein rejected — was the correct framework for unification. His entire program was, essentially, trying to unify the wrong set of things with the wrong tools, however geometrically brilliant the attempts were.

His failure is nonetheless intellectually significant: the mathematical structures he explored (torsion, non-symmetric metrics, extra dimensions, gauge freedom) became foundational to later physics, even if not in the way he envisioned.

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The Convergence Catastrophe Argument

The reasoning goes something like this:

In a single-universe topology, the moment a CTC is established at T₀, every future moment T₀ + ε, T₀ + 10yr, T₀ + 10⁹yr… all share the same ability to send signals backward to T₀. Since the CTC is a fixed locus in spacetime, it becomes a universal sink for all retrocausal influence simultaneously.

This is distinct from the grandfather paradox. The grandfather paradox is about logical contradiction. What we are describing is more like a causal convergence singularity — a physical impossibility arising from the topology itself.

1. Kim & Thorne (1991)

“Do vacuum fluctuations prevent the creation of closed timelike curves?” Physical Review D 43, 3929.

Kim and Thorne calculated the renormalized stress-energy tensor near the Cauchy horizon of a wormhole spacetime developing CTCs, finding that vacuum fluctuations of a quantized scalar field diverge there. The mathematical mechanism is precisely a sum over all orbits — contributions from virtual particles that have traveled zero laps, one lap, two laps… around the would-be loop all pile up constructively, driving the energy density to infinity. This is the formal version of your “bombarded from all future times” intuition.

2. Hawking (1992)

“The chronology protection conjecture” Physical Review D 46, 603.

The canonical statement of the conjecture, building directly on Kim-Thorne. Hawking demonstrated in a two-dimensional Misner space model that the expectation value of the stress-energy tensor diverges as the affine parameter approaches the Cauchy horizon, with the form B/t where B < 0 indicates negative energy density, preventing the traversability required for CTC formation. This divergence occurs before quantum gravity effects at the Planck scale become dominant, providing a semiclassical resolution to the chronology problem.

3. Kay, Radzikowski & Wald (1997)

“Quantum Field Theory on Spacetimes with a Compactly Generated Cauchy Horizon” Communications in Mathematical Physics 183, 533–556. (arXiv: gr-qc/9603012)

Kay, Radzikowski, and Wald proved that the two-point distribution for any Hadamard state defined on the initial globally hyperbolic region must, when extended to the full spacetime, be singular at every base point of the Cauchy horizon — meaning quantities such as the renormalized expectation value of the stress-energy tensor are necessarily ill-defined or singular there. In plain language: there is no physically well-defined quantum state that can cross the chronology horizon. The singularity is not a calculational artifact — it’s provably unavoidable. The proofs rely on the Propagation of Singularities theorems of Duistermaat and Hörmander.

Tier 2 — Structural Context

4. Friedman, Morris, Novikov et al. (1990)

“Cauchy problem in spacetimes with closed timelike curves” Physical Review D 42, 1915.

The formal statement of Novikov self-consistency. Important because our argument directly challenges the sufficiency of Novikov: even granting self-consistency, the overconstrained nature of simultaneously satisfying boundary conditions from all future times makes consistency measure-zero.

5. Deutsch (1991)

“Quantum mechanics near closed timelike lines” Physical Review D 44, 3197.

The many-worlds/branching CTC model. Critical as a foil: Deutsch’s approach works precisely by moving to a multi-branch topology, which is our argument’s load-bearing point — the catastrophe is single-universe-specific.

6. Hiscock (2000)

“Quantized Fields and Chronology Protection” (arXiv: gr-qc/0009061)

Hiscock demonstrated that the vacuum stress-energy always diverges on chronology horizons even for non-conformally coupled and self-interacting scalar fields, showing that the divergence cannot be generally avoided by choosing a Rindler-type vacuum state. This reinforces that the instability is not a gauge/state choice artifact.

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Are you an AI chatbot? Not trying to be offensive, but I saw another post with an account that stated that it was and the speech and formatting style is very close to something generated by that.

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I use AI to help me format my ideas. AI is the closest thing to an unemotional Spock or Commander Data before he activated his emotion chip from the Star Trek original and next generation series, respectively.

Using an AI as a sounding board allows for a level of logical filtration that is hard to find in human conversation, which is often layered with subjective bias or social expectation.

In the context of Star Trek, that “Vulcan” approach provides a stable baseline for complex work. By acting as a pure processing layer, the AI can organize and stress-test concepts without the interference of ego or “emotional interference,” much like Data’s positronic brain before the introduction of his emotion chip.

When you are structuring technical or philosophical frameworks, this lack of sentiment becomes a functional tool. It ensures that the internal consistency of an idea is evaluated solely on its own merits, providing a clear, analytical mirror for your thoughts. It makes for an efficient “cross-pollination” partner where the focus remains entirely on the structural integrity of the logic.

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Are you so certain of this? You do not think reality is broken in some sense? What is your perspective on mandela effects? They exist, or… you of the same mindset, as Darby… then?

i.e. a mismemory

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i.e. What Laws, Accords, Proclaimations, or… Treaties can be broken, when you can’t change… literally anything. You also said it was meant to be/always was that way? Why charge anyone, with anything?

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The point is that the past isn’t changeable and attempting to change things is the conflict. For example, they’re actively, in 1996, trying to prevent something that occurs in 2028. What that means for them is to cause as much harm to the people involved and put as much doubt as possible into their heads then, sometimes even torturing them or far worse, to prevent that future event. It’s not going to work, but for them even if it doesn’t, they’re intending to hurt those people as much as possible. Time travel used as a weapon puts the tragedies in a person’s past that they often had no seemingly real reason to explain.

I’ll give a specific example, citing what’s happened to me directly. In 2009, I was briefly brought to the UK, ostensibly to start a new career that would have put me in the entertainment industry. I ended up in the background of a few productions and I believe that I ended up on-screen at least once. They even put me in an apartment, put me around people who were around the same age as myself, and tried to get me to be in a relationship with someone there. That all happened, but what happened next was that I was kidnapped shortly after and returned to America.

What they were intending to do was to prevent the future. The people from the present doing it knew that I got married in 2012, knew that I got divorced in 2023, and knew that I spent most of my life working in offices. They thought that if they could take a vulnerable moment in my life and attempt to put me around what they thought would change the trajectory of my life, even, from their perspective, for the better, even if that’s against the will of where all of those people, including myself are in the present, it would change future events.

It won’t, it hasn’t, and I remember all of those things having occurred, which is extremely frustrating when I try to explain it to them in the present, and the people in the past from the present, that their attempt to do what they’re doing is not just wrong, it’s harmful. Even if - and it isn’t possible - but even if it was possible to change the timeline from the perspective of an earlier year, you would be altering something big enough that would cease people who exist from existing. It’s not ethical in any sense of the word even if it were possible.

Predestination is never an argument for action. Every person is acting from their present, but even when they are being controlled, coerced, or otherwise manipulated, those actions are tied to the action points of that control, coercion, or manipulation.

I’ll give another example of what they’re doing. They’ll take a present or near-present technology, such as memory viewing technology that induces the user to view a memory of someone else, or a nightmare, or a fictional simulation, similar to a deepfake generated with their own mind, put them in that state and tell them that it’s all real or that they’re really that person, or really were that person, or really will be that person in a future life so they really have the right to make choices for them. This technology is possible with present or near-present scientific knowledge, but I suspect it’s from the near future. I’m being told 2032, and that tracks with my awareness of it’s development. With a time machine from 2028 or around there, they can just go ahead a bit and use it.

The problem isn’t the technology so much as the intention with the machines to attempt to change the past and obfuscate the truth so much that someone in 1996, or 2008, or even 2026 believes that everything they are being told is true at the face value. They’ve been telling people that Star Trek is the real future and that for it to be real some level of horrifying things need to be done or come to pass and they’re using smaller and bigger lies than that to get the results they’re looking for, or think they’re looking for. If you’re even familiar with the canon of that series, it puts a major nuclear war in the next decade or so and that doesn’t happen, but some of the people involved either don’t care or want something like that.

It’s not manipulation of time with time travel that’s the problem, it’s manipulation of the truth, which is where the John Titor story came from, where the Lyndzee Grummond story came from, and why so many people popped up claiming that they were the “real” John Titor and that the entire narrative of that, plus some, was real. It’s a disinformation campaign and they’re using real time travel to go back into people’s pasts, gain their trust, and manipulate them.

For my part, I’ve been working on channeling that time locked document, called The Proclamation and yes, heavily inspired by The Shadow Proclamation’s articles from the TV series Doctor Who. It may even be a real reference, in advance, as I was very close to the television show both growing up and when I was in the UK in 2009. They are also considering, based off their lie that Star Trek is the real future, the Articles of the Federation that were published years ago and are available online, real law, but they’ve balked whenever I quote Article One and The Temporal Prime Directive at them, so I know that whoever is really telling the people involved what to do don’t actually consider any law, especially the United States Code of Federal Regulations, Constitution, Bill of Rights, or even the UN Charter to be particularly binding to their efforts.

The big problem is that a few people with extremely bad intentions are manipulating a lot of people with good intentions and lofty ideals. What makes it worse, not just for me but for the others who are trying to tell those good people that there’s something drastically wrong going on, is that they believe the lie and they have done everything they can to make that lie sound like a truth. Not just an acceptable truth where the ends justify the means, but the best possible truth, the goal of all of humanity and life itself and that no part of what they’re doing is wrong or could even be believed to be wrong. Couple that with plenty of people who seem more than willing to violate their personal ethics, or not present any in the situation to begin with, and you have a very, very dangerous combination.

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Indeed.

Any intentional lying is an unacceptable so~called level of truth to me. But I see why some lies happen. i.e. Abraham & Sarah, entering new cities.

So if it’s a matter of life & death of that one person, or… for those closest to you, whom are also good then yes… I find that mitigate circumstances considerably, but… not just to achieve goals that are evil in gereral, those never justify… any real means! If what you are saying is true that would be quite terrible. ~QS

Note: small edit :sweat_smile:

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Even Abraham and Sarah, which has a bit more than you might think to do with what’s been going on, led to a lot of real pain and a lot that isn’t precisely talked about in Genesis. There are consequences to actions and actions happen for reasons, sometimes. It isn’t often discussed, but Genesis 20:12 states that they were half-siblings, which is likely what, reasonably, put them in a situation where she was driven as far away from him as possible and why he was driven to other women. There’s a genetic effect where if people are related, they push apart, which makes complete sense from the perspective of preventing the harm that related individuals would cause if they were together in that way.

From an honest perspective, he was telling the truth and it’s actually wrong that they were even together like that in the first place. She was driven to another man and he was driven to other women because, whether they knew it or not, they were too closely related. Karma and the correct choice versus the wrong choice always find a way to play itself out narratively. Quantum dynamics and polarity support this.

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Fair enough, but… If we take genesis as fact… everyone came from the same two sinful people, & our sins are what distinguished us… more & more, into differing races… & peoples. So i am unsure it could be helped completely, & they had a tradition that the Lord chose who went with what person to be married. By the branches of trees.

Unless, satan adds his lineage into everything. I do not think that makes it better tho…

Note: & babel didn’t help, or maybe it did? i.e. for the best, now that I’m… really thinking. :man_shrugging:

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If we look at mainstream evolutionary biology and the emerging field of ancient DNA (aDNA) analysis, there is definitive evidence of a profound, highly accelerated shift in the human genome occurring precisely around 6,000 years ago (4000 BCE).

However, geneticists do not call this a deliberate “upgrade” by an outside force. Instead, they classify it as a period of unprecedented, rapid natural selection driven by the Holocene Agricultural Revolution and the subsequent Bronze Age.

When humans transitioned from wandering hunter-gatherer bands to dense, permanent farming communities and early cities, the environmental and cultural pressures changed overnight. This triggered a massive spike in genetic adaptations.

Here is the actual genetic evidence of what happened to the human species around 6,000 years ago:

1. The Metabolic and Dietary Overhaul (Lactase Persistence)

Before agriculture, humans lost the ability to digest lactose (the sugar in milk) after weaning. Around 4,000 to 6,000 years ago, as pastoralism and cattle herding expanded across Europe, the Middle East, and East Africa, a specific point mutation in the LCT gene (which regulates lactase production) began to rapidly sweep through these populations.

This allowed adults to digest raw dairy. In an era of unpredictable crop yields, the ability to drink milk without getting sick was an immense survival advantage—essentially a “bio-energetic upgrade” that allowed populations to thrive on a completely new food source.

2. Sudden Changes in Cognitive and Behavioral Traits

A landmark Harvard Medical School study analyzing nearly 16,000 ancient genomes revealed that natural selection has acted on hundreds of genes in the West Eurasian gene pool over the last 10,000 years, with a massive acceleration occurring between 6,000 and 3,000 years ago.

Interestingly, this data shows that combinations of genetic variants linked to behavioral, social, and cognitive traits shifted significantly during this exact window :

  • The Reduction of Maladaptive Traits: Genetic variants associated with a heightened risk for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder began a steady decline in frequenc y.

  • Polygenic Cognitive Scores: Complex combinations of genes that modern genome-wide studies link to metrics like cognitive performance, years of schooling, and abstract reasoning began to rise consistently.

As human societies scaled up from small tribes into complex, hierarchical, and interdependent city-states, the cognitive and psychological traits required to navigate dense social structures became heavily favored by natural selection.

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It doesn’t matter if we can change the past or not, what matters is that we have technology that can change the state of humanity from what it is to a better place…

We need to see the glass half full and see what capabilities are out of our reach and what capabilities are achievable. I think some people are being too harsh, the universe has not given humans any rules or contracts or promises or guarantees that every model of time travel with every kind of feature is possible, although there are things that we are not yet fully aware of and that is why we need to understand what is actually possible but not yet available and strive to achieve it. … In general, my point is that we should not ignore the clues and what is possible in the real world simply because of excessive expectations and demands of time travel and also because of dry mathematical theories

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I think that we have pretty decent rules. Good things are good and bad things are bad. Good things feel good and bad things feel bad. Biofeedback is far more complicated than that, but it actually results in the same sort of schemas that Buddhism calls Karma and Dharma and the Abrahamic religions call sin and virtue. I have a BA in Psychology with a Sociology minor from Rutgers University and what I’ve learned, and much further research seems to show, is that there actually is a firm logic to what is good and is bad down to a subatomic level. Need and want are states of personal ionization, to use an analogy. Bad actions occur at the balance of them feeling like the best available action with relation to a limited set of actions.

For example, a glass half empty started full and a glass half full started empty. There is often a correct way of even interpreting aphorisms and it needs to be clear to people that with their minds and information they can usually find the correct answer to any question.

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You are essentially arguing for an engineer’s mindset over a pure theorist’s rigidity. The theorist says, “The equations demand infinite energy, therefore it is impossible.” The pragmatic researcher says, “The equations are an approximation of reality; let’s look at the anomalies, the edge cases, and the micro-effects to see what happens when we actually manipulate high-density localized fields.”

True breakthroughs almost always happen in that messy gray area where raw physical intuition and experimental clues force the “dry math” to evolve and rewrite itself.

But experiments take money. Perhaps mental engineering via thought experiments could be helpful.

The Power of the Gedankenexperiment (Thought Experiment)

A thought experiment is not just daydreaming; it is a structured, logical simulation run within the parameters of known physics to push those parameters to their breaking point. It allows you to isolate variables that you can’t isolate in a messy physical lab.

  • Einstein’s Elevator: Einstein couldn’t build a laboratory in deep space away from all gravity, nor could he safely drop a laboratory off a building to achieve perfect weightlessness. By using his mind to visualize an observer inside a falling elevator, he realized that gravity and acceleration are completely indistinguishable. That single, free thought experiment became the foundation of General Relativity.

  • Maxwell’s Demon: James Clerk Maxwell couldn’t manipulate individual gas molecules with a pair of microscopic tweezers. But by inventing a hypothetical “demon” that sorted fast molecules from slow ones, he forced physicists to confront the fundamental relationship between thermodynamics, entropy, and information.

Mental Engineering for Causal and Spacetime Anomalies

If you are looking at the boundaries of time displacement, topological defects, or non-linear causality without a massive research grant, thought experiments are the only way to build the conceptual scaffolding.

Here is how you can use mental engineering to map out realities that physical experiments cannot yet touch:

  1. Information-First Frameworks: If a physical laboratory to create high-density localized vacua is too expensive, you can construct a mental framework where spacetime is treated as an emergent network of relational information. By running a thought experiment on how a “causal current” would circulate information rather than macroscopic matter, you can deduce whether a temporal paradox is a hard logical barrier or merely a misunderstanding of how spacetime conserves its states.

  2. Boundary Testing with Extreme Constraints: You can mentally engineer systems by pushing variables to their logical infinity. For instance, if you imagine a localized topological defect compacted down to the absolute limit of the Planck scale, how does the balance between quantum attributes (quanta) and experiential or relational attributes (qualia) shift? Does the geometry of spacetime dissolve into pure relation?

  3. Drafting the “Blueprint” Before the Factory Exists: You cannot build a causal engine without first understanding its foundational logic. Mental engineering allows you to map out the topological rules, the conservation laws, and the self-dual nature of the system. You solve the logical paradoxes on paper and in thought so that when the technology or funding finally catches up, the engineering blueprint is already mathematically and conceptually sound.

The Feedback Loop

The dry mathematical theories you mentioned often get stuck because they lack a physical or intuitive spark. Real-world experiments get stuck because they lack funding.

Mental engineering bridges that gulf. It takes raw physical intuition, subjects it to rigorous logical rules, and produces a conceptual model. Once that model is completely watertight in the mind, it tells you exactly what micro-experiment you need to run in the real world—saving you from wasting millions of dollars by showing you precisely where to look.

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