The dangers of moronic commentary from time travel ignorant physicists...
by Marshall Barnes
I have felt that the restriction from access to this information by anyone for which it is not intended, is of utmost importance due to the fact that once it has been compromised there is no way to control it. The use of this information by enemies of the United States would be tantamount to giving them access to an atomic weapons arsenal against which there is no defense.
However, after extensive consideration, I have felt it best to not reveal the military implications that access to such technological knowledge would present. It will introduce an entirely new and different kind of warfare beyond the imagination of the world’s current military superpowers. For this reason I cannot reveal the nature, potential or theoretical effectiveness, nor how this new type of war would be waged. Only that it must be avoided at all costs.
What I will do is share in part some thoughts from Louis Del Monte, a writer and physicist who has written inaccurately on the time travel issue. Yes, I did say, “inaccurately”. Reviewing his thoughts, however, will give some perspective as to the actual scope that I’m referring to.
“Time travel will be the ultimate weapon. With it, any nation can write its own history, assure its dominance, and rule the world.”
This is patently false and reflects a total and complete ignorance of true time travel science which has moved beyond Einsteinian models. There is no changing history so that it changes the present or future. This fact has now been proven in the laboratory.
“However, having the ultimate weapon also carries the ultimate responsibility. How it is used will determine the fate of humankind. These are not just idle words. This world, our Earth, is doomed to end. Our sun will eventually die in about five billion years. Even if we travel to another Earth-like planet light-years away, humankind is doomed. The universe grows colder each second as the galaxies accelerate away from one another faster than the speed of light. Our galaxy, and all those in our universe, will eventually succumb to the entropy apocalypse (i.e., “heat death”) in a universe that has become barren and cold. If there is any hope, it lies in the technologies of time travel. Will we need to use a traversable wormhole to travel to a new (parallel) universe?”
In this case he is correct but only in part and the solution is already at hand. Time travel will result in being in another, parallel universe and as such, the ultimate escape, even from the end of the universe which we are in now. But in any case, that event is billions of years away and is no real bearing on our immediate fate anywhere near as those known fates which threaten us now.
“I believe the fate of humankind and the existence of the universe are more fragile than most of us think. If the secrets of time travel are acquired by more than one nation, then writing history will become a war between nations. The fabric of spacetime itself may become compromised, hastening doomsday.”
Here again, Del Monte is partially correct. If time travel is acquired by more than one country, there could most certainly be the threat of war, but not because of changing history and any statements about anything threatening the “fabric of space-time” are patently ridiculous on their face and without any serious scientific foundation.
“Would it be possible to rip the fabric of spacetime beyond a point that the arrow of time becomes so twisted that time itself is no longer viable? I do not write these words to spin a scary ghost story. To my mind, these are real dangers.”
True. To Del Monte’s mind these are real dangers because Del Monte has zero background or education in temporal physics. If he did, he would know that his statement suggests a fundamental nature for the arrow of time within the structure of space-time. Space-time is where things are and happen. The arrow of time is only the direction that events unfold due to the 2nd law of thermodynamics and causation. Destroying space-time would not affect the direction of the arrow of time, anywhere, at all, nor is it possible outside of a black hole.
“What about time travel? It is the ultimate weapon, and we do not know the consequences regarding its application.”
Well, Del Monte doesn’t know that, that’s for certain.
“However, once we cross the time border, there may be no return, no do-over. The first human time travel event may be our last. We have no idea of the real consequences that may ensue.”
This is nothing more than sensationalist, fear mongering by a man who either has made absolutely no effort at all into researching the time travel subject or lacked the mental and intellectual capacities to comprehend what he read. However, I include his commentary here because it reflects the opinions of many other people who fit that description.
“Rarely does regulation keep pace with technology. The Internet is an example of technology that outpaced the legal system by years. It is still largely a gray area. If time travel is allowed to outpace regulation, we will have a situation akin to a lighted match in a room filled with gasoline. Just one wrong move and the world as we know it may be lost forever. Regulating time travel ahead of enabling time travel is essential. Time travel represents humankind’s most challenging technology, from every viewpoint imaginable.”
In 2013, I published a special report for select members of the US Congress, titled, Paradox Lost:The True Geometries of Time Travel. Most of the members that received it were Republicans and included Steve Stivers and Tom Tiberi. None of those members are still there now but the purpose of the report was to address specifically the idea that regulations needed to be enacted to control or outlaw time travel research as some like Del Monte were advocating. Primarily because the greatest fear - that of someone going to the past and changing an election, was scientifically impossible. It was the first shot fired across the bow of those with little or highly inaccurate knowledge of time travel science and their agenda.
“What regulations are necessary? I have concluded they need to be simple, like the nuclear deterrence rule (about thirteen words), and not like the US tax code (five million words). When you think about it, the rule of nuclear deterrence is simple: “If you use nuclear weapons against us, we will retaliate, assuring mutual destruction.” That one simple rule has kept World War III from happening. Is there a similar simple rule for time travel?”
Yes. Need to know only and 100% compartmentalization within the US. Just like in the military. It’s what I use and I know it works.
“I think there is one common sense rule regarding time travel that would assure greater safety for all involved parties. I term the rule ‘preserve the world line.’ Why this one simple rule?”
This proves that Del Monte lacks the mental acumen for this subject. He assumes that time travel science will become known as much as nuclear physics is. There is no reason for that and as the lead researcher in the world on that subject, I’m not going to share it. I have one last public experiment to conduct - just to prove a point regarding going back to the past and then all further developments go black.
“Altering the world line (i.e., the path that all reality takes in four-dimensional spacetime) may lead to ruination. We have no idea what changes might result if the world line is disrupted, and the consequences could be serious, even disastrous.”
In his explanation of a “preserve the worldline” model, Del Monte once again reveals the limitations of his knowledge are entrenched firmly behind the extent of Einsteinian physics. He also reveals that he has no problem writing commentary on a subject without making the slightest effort to learn anything of serious consequence about it.
“The preserve the world line rule is akin to avoiding the ‘butterfly effect.’ This phrase was popularized in the 2004 film The Butterfly Effect, with the now famous line: ‘It has been said that something as small as the flutter of a butterfly’s wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world.’ Although the line is from a fictional film, the science behind it is chaos theory, which asserts there is a sensitive dependence on the initial conditions of a system that could result in a significant change in the system’s future state. Edward Lorenz, American mathematician, meteorologist, and a pioneer of chaos theory, coined the phrase ‘butterfly effect.’ For example, the average global temperature has risen about one degree Fahrenheit during the last one hundred years. This small one-degree change has caused the sea levels around the world to rise about one foot during the same period. Therefore, I believe, it is imperative not to make even a minor change to the past or future during time travel until we understand the implications. “Based on the above discussion, the implications of using time travel as a weapon are enormous. However, if time travel is used as a weapon, we have no idea how this may impact the world line. If it is possible to adhere to the preserve the world line rule, traveling in time may become safe...Similarly, we have no idea what the long-term effects will be if we alter the world line. “We already know from laboratory experiments that the arrow of time can be twisted. Things done in the future can alter the past.”
Here, Del Monte is referencing retrocausal experiments whose reinterpretation, since he wrote that, has been turned around and now proved to be the basis for the possibility of time travel to the past as I predicted in 2013 for Paradox Lost. However, in that reinterpretation, such notions as he’s positing, fall flat. “Obviously, altering the past may alter the future. We do not know much about it because we have not time traveled in any significant way.” The reason that Del Monte and his “we” know so little about it is they’ve done no research with the intent to find out. That’s OK. I have.
“There are too many possibilities and dangerous side effects of time travel. By traveling into the future, we might bring to the present a virus/disease that hasn't even been discovered, or we might bring back news of a New Holocaust/World Takeover.”
These possibilities only point out why certain time periods should be avoided.
“If we go to the past, we may alter something that will have a domino effect on the rest of society. What if the CIA assassinated Hitler before he even reaches the age of 2. That would alter history. We would no longer know of "Hilter," or of the "Holocaust."
Again. going to the past and causing an alteration that will change history and the future, is impossible. It is based on hidden assumptions that ignore the science, which has been verified in multiple, physical experiments and published in a double blind, peer-reviewed paper. Going to the past is not a reversal in the direction through time but a jump, an instantaneous causation of a new, parallel universe copy of the past with the time traveler in it and with no causal link to the future they came from.
“In conclusion, Time should be left alone. Like everything else in this universe, the human will be the one to destroy it. First we destroyed the parks and trees so we could build offices and corporations, then we created global warming due to the oil we needed, now we will destroy time and modify history because we need some new source for our profit.”
So, Del Monte fully demonstrates the erroneous conclusions from having ignorance of temporal physics and having a PhD in physics is not enough to claim any sort of knowledge, at all, of the subject of time travel or to express an opinion that’s worth any consideration. Because of his ignorance he feels that we shouldn’t experiment with time even though it could be the thing to ensure our future.
