Who will own (whatever it is or whatever we use to call) TIME?
If I could save time in a bottle//
The first thing that I’d like to do//
Is to save every day ’til eternity passes away//
Just to spend them with you….
— — Jim Crocé
Our knowledge of Time, Space and reality itself is self-referential, we are not sure of what we know until we discover it in the accuracy and refinement of a later theory, it is until they strive to find the error, the inquisitive eyes of someone with the imagination and/or the pertinent wisdom who dares to break any paradigm or dogma in reference to any of this triad, when we notice the transcendence of the subject.
Despite the fact that “Time” is a concept of recent appearance within the evolutionary process of our culture, its undeniable force has affected the human being, in such a way that he has never been able to escape the powerful influence that radiates the idea of his existence.
Time is so fundamental to our recent existence on this planet that the mere assumption of its reality has focused and directed the formation of cultures, has radically changed the formation of individual and collective patterns of human relations and has led to profoundly alter the ecological balance in each of the environments that man has conquered. A single evocation of Time is enough for postures to be pigeonholed in any specialty, the emotionality and rationality of some (scientists and non-scientists) to overflow and, ultimately, the division of various factions takes place,The owner of time is a notion that has been widely spread by science fiction writers, many of whom have quantitatively diminished the credibility of the matter; Therefore, it is not considered as one of the branches of practical study and is limited to informal talks where time travel symbolizes the viable solution to the problems of the present and, perhaps also, to the shortcomings of the future through a alteration of the past.
However, the great diffusion of this idea has left behind the basic formulation; that is to say, one wants to travel through Time, but no individual knows what it is, where it comes from, what characterizes it, if it actually exists, its origins, etc. (Retaking the words in Confessions of Saint Augustine regarding Time :”What then is Time? If nobody asks me, I know; if I want to explain it to those who ask me, I don’t know.”)
The professions administered by chosen juries, for two years among the notables. At the time when the powers that be are interested in watchmaking: it is what today we would call a leading industry; settles where there is metal and trade. From the thirteenth century capitalism makes its appearance in the cities, the centers of economic exchange, the markets where prices, risks and profits are set. The location of the watch industry reveals the presence of the most stable and essential industrial centers. The exploitation of the mines takes place in the second half of the fifteenth century. Work becomes salaried. The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries are, for watchmaking, the centuries of Germany, German watchmakers have absolute technical mastery. Other watchmaking cities develop: Blois, Geneva, Amsterdam and London. Clocks announce a new era: the science of Time marks a tremendous change in mentalities. Europe, dominated by merchants and princes, whose primary ambition is to organize the free movement of goods, return to safe paths, guarantee deliveries, is pacified. But the violence was there: in the poor peasants that the plague and the progress of agricultural techniques brought down on the great trade routes.
These threatened the order; so there is a need to circumscribe the violence, regularize it and date it. To administer the urban world, with its poor and its beggars, the Church is no longer enough. We must let violence express itself from time to time, show it as a spectacle so that power can establish that it is capable of dominating it: the calendar is no longer that of ritual, it’s from the police; the mental relationship with time changes. The social order is experienced as a balance of forces; power is structured like a clock, oscillates between contradictory forces and leans on them to establish its balance.
Little by little, the metaphor of the clock is installed as the major representation of order; even the Church represents God as “The watchmaker of the world”. Time acquires value, is quantified… and secular Time arises. The enemies, excluded from Time and order, are only authorized to express themselves in the interstices: carnivals or fairs. But… who is the owner of time? it oscillates between contradictory forces and leans on them to establish its balance. Little by little, the metaphor of the clock is installed as the major representation of order; even the Church represents God as “The watchmaker of the world”. Time acquires value, is quantified… and secular Time arises. The enemies, excluded from Time and order, are only authorized to express themselves in the interstices: carnivals or fairs. But… who is the owner of time? it oscillates between contradictory forces and leans on them to establish its balance. Little by little, the metaphor of the clock is installed as the major representation of order; even the Church represents God as “The watchmaker of the world”. Time acquires value, is quantified… and secular Time arises. The enemies, excluded from Time and order, are only authorized to express themselves in the interstices: carnivals or fairs. But… who is the owner of time? carnivals or fairs. But… who is the owner of time? carnivals or fairs. But… who is the owner of time?
Let’s imagine the hypothetical possibility of time travel… who protects us from the whims of changing the past or the future where we really are at this minute, second, microsecond… etc.? Who will be able to put the flag of territoriality before anything happens?
Philosophical considerations about the arrow of time and time travel often run into problems related to retrocausality. Although some theories have been proposed as forms of retrocausality.
Mathematically, the possibility of time travel is represented by the existence of the closed curve of type time.
Other theories that allow time travel but prevent time paradoxes, such as Novikov’s self-consistency principle, which would ensure that the timeline remains consistent, or the idea that the time traveler is transferred to a parallel universe while their original timeline remains unscathed, they are not considered to sufficiently “protect” the chronology.
In 1996, physicist Li-Xin Li (linked to J. Richard Gott, author of Einstein’s Time Travel and the Universe ) published an article in which he posited a chronology-protecting anti-conjecture:
By appearing the absorption of matter, the vacuum quantum fluctuations of all kinds of fields could be smoothed out; space-time would remain stable to the time machine against vacuum fluctuations. The chronology-protecting conjecture could fail against the anti-conjecture: there is no law in physics that prevents the appearance of closed time-like curves.
Photons — individual particles of light — could travel through time and meet their closest selves in the past, according to an experiment by Australian researchers and published in the journal Nature Communications . According to experts from the University of Queensland in Australia, their work using two photons to simulate time-traveling quantum particles suggests the possibility of time-jumping, at least at the quantum level. thereby achieving the first experiment in achieving “a trip through time”.
It is worth mentioning that, in 1991, it was first predicted that time travel would be possible in the “quantum world”, because quantum particles behave almost outside the realm of physics.
For the study, led by doctoral student Martin Ringbauer, the research team examined two possible outcomes. Photon one would travel through a wormhole (also known as an Einstein-Rosen bridge) into the past and interact with its previous version. Meanwhile, “photon two” would travel through normal space-time, but would interact with a photon that is stuck in a wormhole time loop, known as a closed time-like curve. With the above, “photon two” helped to study the behavior of “photon one”, showing that time travel could be possible.
On the other hand and finally, it is not yet known whether such simulation could be possible for larger particles or groups of particles such as atoms.
And as for the future, advances in quantum physics bring us vertiginously closer to a world in which what is seen is not what it seems and in which fiction becomes reality.
An international group of scientists in which the Higher Council for Scientific Research of Spain (CSIC) participates, has proposed an experiment to allow the transfer of information between past and future, taking advantage of the properties of the quantum vacuum.
The so-called quantum vacuum is a low-energy state in which there are no physical particles as we understand them, but it is full of fluctuating electromagnetic waves and virtual particles, a model that converges with the Higgs Field.
The vacuum can be charged with energy and the relationship between particles and the vacuum is similar to the relationship between sound waves and the matter through which they propagate.
Thanks to these fluctuations, the void would be intertwined in time; that is, the vacuum that exists now and the one that will exist at a later moment would have strong quantum correlations.
In their work, which is published in the journal Physical Review Letters , the scientists have exploited these quantum correlations using superconducting circuit technology.
“Superconducting circuits allow us to reproduce the interaction between matter and radiation, but with an amazing degree of control. They not only allow us to control the intensity of the interaction between atoms and light, but also the time it lasts. Thanks to this, we have been able to amplify quantum effects that would otherwise be impossible to detect”, explained Carlos Sabín from the CSIC, and director of the study.
In a 1992 article, Hawking used a fictional Chronology Protection Agency as a metaphor to personify aspects of physics that make macroscopic-scale time travel impossible, which is a way to prevent time paradoxes.
Hawking stated:
There seems to be a Chronology Protection Agency that prevents the appearance of closed time curves, thereby making the universe safe for historians.
The idea of the Agency… seems to have been jokingly drawn from the Time Patrol or Time Police, a concept present in science fiction works such as Isaac Asimov’s The End of Eternity , Poul Anderson ‘s Time Police series, Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen , by H. Beam Piper, and other stories about it, on television and cartoons: by Charles Stross, Time Variance Authority , from the series Futurama, Vice Presidential Action Rangers , the British series Doctor Who , “Time Cop “, with the Belgian actor Jean Claude Van Damme, etc or in programs like Quantum Leap, where love makes traveler Dr. Sam Beckett, played by Scott Bakula, return home only if he completes his mission.
For its part, Paul Levinson’s The Chronology Protection Case , published in Analog Magazine in 1995, makes Hawking’s conjecture a murderous tool for scientists who know too much.
The Chronology Protection Conjecture is a hypothesis formulated by the English physicist Stephen Hawking, who holds that the laws of physics are such as to prevent time travel on any scale other than submicroscopic. On the other hand, Hawking warns that the best demonstration of this impossibility is that at present we are not being invaded by tourists from the future, an affirmation that he obviously expressed being aware that a closed time-type curve would not allow traveling to a time before the of its creation. As no time machine has yet been built, there is no reason to expect temporary tourists.
Retrocausality refers to any of the hypothetical phenomena or processes capable of reversing causality, allowing an effect to precede its cause — let us imagine that the footprint precedes the footstep, the echo the voice, the detonation the gunshot… Known in English as retro-causation or backward causation , it is fundamentally a thought experiment, within the philosophy of science, based on elements of physical science, which is oriented to the following questions: Can what happens in the future affect the future? present?, and can the present affect the past?
