Time - a linear measurement of our perception of the world.

Most people would view time as the most simple of the diagrams that you see 
included with this article. To them time is a single sided strip which we are 
moving down.  In this view however it would be easy(absurdly so) to travel time, 
visitting both the past and future.  As we know, under current technology that 
is quite impossible.  Why would this be so hard if time was linear?  Because 
time is not linear.  We percieve time linearly, but that is only our perception, 
probably not fact.
i say that time has a moving twist.  Like the twist in the second included 
figure, the twist can be anywhere.  i state that the twist would be 
representative of our view of the present.  One side of the strip represents the 
past - this is represented by the top of the strip to the left of the twist.  
The unseeable bottom of that side of the strip represent the possible futures 
that could have (and possibly did) happened.  To the right of the twist is the 
future - unknown and so turned down so that we cannot view it.  The top of the 
future side of the strip is blank to show the unlimited possibilities.  The 
beginning of this strip is fixed - it is the beginning of life(or the universe, 
if you want to have a big picture), as well as the end - the end of the strip 
representing death.  As i said earlier(or was it later? is time that linear?) 
the twist is moving, like a wave, down the strip.  At any given period this 
SINGLE wave of the present can only move in a single direction. we cannot travel 
against the wave into the past, nor can we jump over the wave to view the 
future, which is hidden from us.  This means that we cannot travel time in any 
way.  But what of when the wave hits the end? Basic wave physics tells us the 
the wave will rebound from its endpoint, reversing the direction of travel.  
This undoes all of the events that occurred the first run, creating new ones.  
The movement will continue until the wave hits it's original startpoint, 
restarting the cycle.  each time the wave reveses direction, a new "time" will 
result, with a different present and past being recorded.  this cycle would be 
repeated until eventually the universe (multiverse?) absorbs all of the energy 
that keeps the wave in motion(again, basic wave physics, each rebound the wave 
will have less energy, and thus time will move slower after each rebound.)  once 
the wave stops it's motion, time and the universe(multiverse?) would be 
destroyed.  but there must be a better way to explain this, and there is.  Enter 
the Möbius Strip.  it has only one side and a single twist.  again i will use 
the twist as our perception of the present.  But on this strip the past and 
future touch!  Is time travel possible because of this? NO! Because of this is 
why it is not possible.  On the Möbius Strip the past and the future both depend 
on each other for survival.  Events in the past influence the events in the 
future.  Events in the future become the present and then the past.  If you 
cut(change) the future then you will destroy the present.  If you have no 
present then you will have no past.  If you have no past then you will have no 
future... ad infinitum - due to the looping nature of the Möbius Strip.  Its due 
to this looping nature that you cannot travel time.  If you were to travel time 
and change it then you would be able to alter events.  So could you go back and 
prevent the conception of your mother or father?  NO!  If you did that then you 
would cease to exist in your own time and would be unable to travel time.  Why? 
- because when you cut off the past the future disappears.  The laws of the 
universe cannot allow for tampering.  The Möbius Strip cannot continue to exist 
if it is cut, and the same holds true for time.
 But however even this picture is not entire.  Picture a Klien Bottle.  A Klien 
Bottle is the three dimensional equivilent to the Möbius strip.  Again you have 
a single surface along which all things move.  On the surface of a Klien bottle 
you have an infinite amount of Möbius strips running, intersecting with each 
other.  Think of each strip along the surface as  an individual timeline(life).  
As each timeline intersects with others they bend and weave amoung each other to 
create the matrix of time.  Now on a Klien bottle the limits(skin) of the bottle 
are the "present".  The inside of the bottle represents the "past", which is 
ever increasing in size, expanding the present(the limits of the bottle).  The 
outside of the bottle represents the "future", which is infinite.  Now
on a Möbius strip if you attempt to change the past you cut your strip, 
destroying your present and future.  Because of the simplex nature of the Möbius 
strip, you can only destroy your own section of the strip, not the entire 
strip(at least in theoty, also in theory, you will simply cause the universe to 
cease to exist).  Now the problem(or is it a high point?) of the Klien bottle 
version of time is that it offers infinite choices and combinations, which means 
that time is highly woven.  If one were to go back and change time... All Hell 
would break loose.  To change the past of one individual would start changing 
the pathes of many other individuals.  This means that the present, which is 
highly dependent on the past, would start to unravel.  With the present no 
longer serving as an effective barrier between the past and future, they would 
be able to intermingle.  If the past and future are allowed to combine the 
present would cease to exist, since it would no longer be needed.  Now earlier i 
stated that the present, past, and future cannot exist without each other(after 
all, the past caused what is going on in the present, and the future is the past 
yet to come).  This means that if any of the three fails to exist, time will 
disappear.  What happens if time itself were to suddenly fail to exist?  If time 
were to cease to exist the Universe itself would suddenly fail to exist.  But 
this is impossible, because our(or ttheir, or whoever's) Universe is simply a 
small part of a larger mass.  Think of the Universe as a Möbius strip - it is a 
simple single item.  However, like time, this is not accurate.  Think back to 
the Klein bottle of time, which i said was comosed of an infinite series of 
Möbius strips.  Well the same thing is happening with the Universes.  Our own 
Universe is simply part of a much larger Multiverse.  Now how can it be a 
Multiverse and not just a simple Universe?  Quite easily.  In a simple Universe 
you can only choose a single path out of an infinite number available.  The 
problem with this is that if you choose a different path one time from another 
time when you have to make the same choice you can end up on a different path 
each time you make the same choice.  Since each path chosen affects those around 
one differently each time one makes the same choice, and since each reaction by 
each person has an infinitely possible number of results, and each person 
affected will be affected differently each time, then there must be an infinite 
number of possible futures and pasts for each present, and there must be an 
infinite number of presents.  You cannot hold an infinite number of pasts, 
presents, and futures in a single Universe.  One might say to hold each present 
in its own bubble within the Universe, but thats not going to be seperate 
enough, for while each present may share bits of its past with another present, 
they may not share futures.  If each future must be independent, then you must 
have a copy of the present for each of the inifinite possible which that present 
might create.  Since you must keep each possible present and future seperate 
from the others you cannot possible house all the results in a single Universe.  
So how can this be solved?  Take each of the infinite possible presents and 
place each single present in one of  an infinite number of Universes.  Hold all 
of these Universes in a single Multiverse.  Niw the Multiverse has an infinite 
number if Universes each containing a timeline.  In order to destroy the past, 
present, and future of a single universe you must also destroy all of the pasts, 
presents, and futures which are permenantly linked to the timeline you are 
trying destroy(change).  The Multiverse will resist change.  This resistance 
will work to prevent the destruction of any single Universe's timeline.  If you 
cannot destroy any single timeline then you cannot destroy an infinite number of 
timelines, so the Multiverse survives.
Now however you must balance the infinite Universes so that they share time and 
matter.  This is accomplished with series of black, white, and grey holes.  A 
black hole and white hole will always be paired, but never within the same 
Universe.  A black hole is an inlet, sucking both time and matter from the 
universe its in, supposedly destroying all that it accepts.  It isn't so much 
that it destroyed anything, only that it no longer exists in this Universe.  In 
a different Universe is a white hole.  This is an outlet of a black hole, 
throwing matter into a Universe in a Primal(that is to say simple) form.  This 
Primal matter or time, as it may output either or both, then serves to become a 
template for the ocurances of the timeline into which the white hole outputs.  
Now a grey hole is different in several aspects.  First off, grey holes only 
pair with other grey hole.  The more unteresting difference is that items, such 
as people, animals, devices, etc., may pass through a grey hole pair unharmed.  
However, once something has gone through a grey hole, it is impossible to return 
through that same grey hole.  This is because, similar to our black/white hole 
system, this is a one-way system.  Now a person can travel an unlimited amount 
of times through a grey hole in their ORIGINAL direction, providing one can 
return to thier original Universe.  Could one possibly go through a grey hole 
and find themselves?  No.  Each of the infinite pasts, presents, and futures can 
have only a single copy of any entity.  Since this law holds for all points on a
line, if one were to go through a grey hole, one would find that they are the 
only copy of themselves, and that before their emergence in their current 
Universe, there was no previous copy of themselves.  This is another safety 
mechanism of the Multiverse.  Since an individual entity cannot possible cross 
its own timeline in another Universe, time cannot be changed by travelling to 
different Universes.  Now larger and smaller Universes must balance out.  This 
may be done by adding more black, white or grey holes to a particular Universe.  
In a larger Universe you are going to have a greater number of black holes, each 
of which is sucking time and matter away from that Universe, each ending with 
its own white hole in any one of the Infinitely possible other Universes.  Each 
Universe has its own inlets and outlets, some more then others.  Since there are 
infinite possibilities for where each inlet and outlet are located, you can 
never be sure how to read them.  Now for people in any particular Universe 
reading the past is easy.  This is because the past has already happened.  Now 
earlier it was stated that each possible past may have an infinite number of 
presents and each present an infinite number of possible futures.  Well now for 
some fun.  Each present may have only one past.  Each of the infinite presents 
may share parts of the same past, but are completely seperate Universes.  This 
means that with every choice made, a new Universe is created where that timeline 
may exist independent of all others.  Now about a massive number of Universes 
make up a single Multiverse.  How may this be expressed in maths?  One starting 
point multiplied by an infinite number of paths (1 x inf = inf).  Now you take 
that infinite number of paths (now known as the present) and multiply by an 
infinite number of new paths (inf x inf = inf squared).  Now you take your new 
number of paths and multiply by the number of individual entities ( inf squared 
x inf = inf cubed).  For each new level of choices you will multiply by a factor 
of INF.  The final result of all that work can be expressed as (inf to the inf 
power).  This represents the number of possible Universes in a given Multiverse.  
Quite large, isn't it?  Actually (inf to the inf power) is an abstract, because 
nothing made by humans or any other being can possibly place numbers to match 
that idea.  These ideasvare quite simple however.  Now lets assume that each 
Multiverse is part of a much larger whole.  This huge Multiverse (super-
Multiverse?) must hold to similar rules as our simple multiverse.  Inside the 
super-Multiverse you have (inf to the inf power) multiverses, each of which 
holds (inf to the inf power) universes.  Now you have a very abstract number of 
(inf to the 2 x inf power).  There is nothing to say that i am correct or 
incorrect in this matter, because the numbers i have discussed are beyond the 
range of any comprehension.  I guess that is my entire point however.  Because 
nothing of this can be proven right or wrong, then we must learn to understand 
our feelings on the subject, and most of all, we must not attempt to change 
Time!

Pitr Neochaos
1-28-2002
editted and typed:
2-07-2002