The Scariest Thing About Time Travel.

After my routine pick up of pizza from the usual Friday Pizza Night, I got thinking on the car trip back after watching "The Late Philip J. Fry" Futurama episode.

What's the scariest thing about time travel?

Is it the altering of all history?

Is it the risk of traveling to a place where the world is nothing short of Dystopia?

Or maybe even running the risk that the world has turned into Utopia? And that it scares you.

Is it the daunting chance of not being able to return to the place from whence you came? That all of whom you once consorted with only exists in your memories?

No, I think the most macabre thing about time travel is the notion that it essentially proves that there is no free will in this world, that fate/determinism/pre-destiny is only a matter of truth.

How can there be any free will in the world if you travel to a place where things are already happening? That there are already predestined triggers for the causes that are your actions?

But then, what of chaos theory? What if there are many aftermaths instead of the one aftermath? And that you merely traveled to one out of a many possible aftermaths?

Could it not be considered then that you are not actually traveling through time, but skipping universes? Considering that time is nothing more than a human construct.

Of course, all this thought is under the assumption that time travel is linear.

But let's look at a more interesting question.

What if, you traveled through time somewhere into the future, you met yourself?

You, along with your time machine, are transported, all the molecules and atoms and neutrinos, to a different place, to a different time.

And you met the future you.

Could this be possible?

Could it be possible that life has carried on as if you hadn't traveled through time, in any case, you would have broken the system, you would have founded a loophole, upset the equilibrium, pissing off the higher deity playing the marionette.

Let's look at this from another angle, from a Robert Heinlein inspired angle.

You are building a time machine, and let's say a war breaks out, a colossal world war, that lasts many a decade. In this war, new civilizations are formed, races are forgotten, and as a result of all of this, new languages are formed.

You are forced to side with somebody, and you do so, we shall call them the Zoidbergs.
They are advanced [consisting of the smarter Americans and Japanese] in all forms of weaponry and technology, and eventually, outlive and conquer the entire planet. You play your part in all of this, you record the language in the book, translating it into original English.

You have also just completed your time machine. And to test it out, and for convenience, you send the book back in time to your past self to learn the language beforehand.

Sure enough, the past you learns the language, and sure enough, you build the time machine.

Sure enough, the war happens, and you send the book back and the cycle repeats itself.

For one point.
Who writes the book?

For five points.
How many times does this process happen?
Does this mean that immortality can be achieved?

Also,

Weekly Top 10 No. #11.

This week is themed: Hardstyle.

1. The Box - Bruno Power Meets Dark Oscillators
2. Cheers (DJ Zany Rmx) - A*S*Y*S.
3. Kizza - Phillipe Rochard Meets Nu-Pulse
4. Catchin’ Up - Max Enforcer.
5. Blame It On The Music - Headhunterz & Wildstylez
6. Wake Up Call [Original Mix] - Matt Restless.
7. Drug Addicted Psycho 2007 - Sam Punk vs. DJ The Crow.
8. Turntable Junky (A1 Uberduck Meets DJ Slideout Mix) - Uberduck.
9. Sukka Beatz - Swankie DJ and Kashi.
10. Rising - Francesco Zeta and Brucio DJ.