Traveling Through Space and Time

William Faulkner was right when he said the past isn’t the past at all. The past, in fact time itself as a dimension, is a causation, it is all things that lead to a moment that was neither predictable nor irrevocable. The truth is that the present and the future are products of determinants prescribed by powers that can never be fully understood. In many ways, the physical laws of nature are being created and destroyed in a split second, before they would even apply to your current reality, much like our universal reality is dynamic and constantly in flux. The truth, then, of which I speak is entirely without absolutes and entirely without predictable certainties. By employment of deductive reasoning, then, it must be the case that the past, present and future of our physical existence has both already happened and never happened at all. This inevitably creates a discussion involving fate, determinism, free will and what, if anything, science has to say on the topics.
The possibility of time travel is one particularly unique unit of the physical reality in which we inhabit. Can the past affect the future and can you, as a time traveler, affect your own past or future? Does our notion of free will stand in the way of the possibility of time travel paradoxes? Can, as in Schrodinger’s cat, we exist as two entirely different states of being in two entirely different universes as time travel theory predicts?
I mean, haven’t you ever had that déjà vu sensation; that you have done this, been there, felt this very sensation before? And it definitely doesn’t exist in your memory bank? An old family friend of mine, in response to my inexplicable, terrifying, debilitating fear of elevators at the time, told my mother that there simply was no other explanation other than it is a residual sensation from a past life, or in physics terms, an alternate self in an alternate universe. As insane as it may sound, if there is no other reliable solution, what is to keep it from being a possible explanation?
Okay, enough of my stream of consciousness rambling. Here is what is known. Black holes are invisible entities in our universe; they suck everything, including light, into their abyss at the event horizon. There is no telling what that experience must be like for one falling into it, but the observer would almost certainly see that person getting stretched angel hair pasta thin until the forces of the black hole obliterate them. But what if, a wormhole exists in that particular black hole into which you fell? Then, as a matter of theoretical physics, you would find yourself transported out of a white hole and dumped into an alternate universe. We can thank Albert Einstein for this projection. It is, after all, the curvature of space time proposed in his General and Specific Theories of Relativity that gave birth to many hypotheses related to what may, in fact, happen, if we were to experience the practical applications of a very complex calculus. What if that wormhole that would transport you far and wide exists, but due to its invisible nature you cannot see, right outside of your front door in a weird, surreal sort of Alice in Wonderland experience?
Theoretical physics, believe it or not, allows for just this kind of unbelievable scenario. It is only our free will, scholars postulate, that restricts us from accepting and experiencing our past and our future. It is an entirely different matter, however, as to whether or not you might be able to affect the outcomes of your past. It is widely hypothesized, however, that you simply cannot change what has already happened to you and, similarly, cannot affect what will happen to you in the future. This is a matter of reasoning and logic. That ought to be, in my humble opinion, rather calming. After all, what will be will be; sit back and enjoy the ride.
The lesson here is, then, that the possibilities when given four, at least that we know of although string theory might change that, dimensions in which to play. So, next time you are sitting in a room with familiar people and suddenly feel as though you have been here, doing the same things you are doing, experiencing the same sensations you are experiencing, think maybe you have been here before. Because, my friends, you might well have been here before. Knowing you could fall past the event horizon of a black hole into a wormhole into an alternate universe, what will you do next?