Looping through time

[SasQ 1,355]

Ever dreamed about some timey-wimey spacetime roadtrip?

Then read on.

 

How it has all begun

 

Some time ago I was tidying up my papers and I found my old artworks, projects of video games and other stuff I created as a child / teenager, many years ago. I was very surprised how creative and smart I was already back then. I was designing (and playing!) computer games and writing computer programs before I even had a computer! (I made everything on paper and cut it out).
But I also noticed how much progress I did since then. Now I know answers to many questions which constantly nagged me back then.
 
And then I thought it to myself:
"Oh, how wonderful it would be to have my present brain back then in the past. It could save me lots of time..."
I didn't know yet the power of this simple thought! Several days later, a weird stream of "coincidences" started to happen to me, and they continue to happen to this day.
 
Coincidences
 
First, I was bored, so I accidentally started watching YouTube videos: I decided to watch some banned cartoons which have never got past the pilot. One of them was "The Modifyers", where a secret agent girl seeks for an artifact called "The All-Seeing Eye", which was an eye-shaped crystal ball supposed to "know the answers for every question". I would never expect something as simple as a random cartoon could be important.

Several days later I was watching a movie "The Charlemagne Code" (original title in German was "The Treasure of the Nibelungen"). In the movie, one of the keys they had to find was "The Eye of the Gods", which turned out to be a ball-shaped object which kings hold in their hand as a symbol of power. And it has a crystal hidden inside. (I know, this might not seem as strong a coincidence at first, but bear with me, soon it will all become clear how important and strong a coincidence it is.)

Next day I was discussing with a friend about the phantom time hypothesis and I forwarded him to my post I wrote several years before on that subject. I started to read it too, to refresh my memories, and I noticed that I wrote (actually quoted) something about King Charles the Great there too.
 
Another coincidence was even more suspicious:
Several days before, a thought appeared in my mind out of nowhere; it was just this phrase: "Baby, it's cold outside". That though was continuously bouncing inside my head through several days, so I decided to do a web search. First I thought it was a title of some song, but I found nothing which caught my eye.

I almost forgot about that thing, when the other day I decided to take a look at those olden generations of My Little Pony, and suddenly, when scanning through the episodes list, I saw that very exact phrase: "Baby, it's cold outside"! It was the title of one of the episodes from G1!
 
I was stunned. This was way too accurate to be just a coincidence. And this have brought me an intriguing idea:
 

What if seeing this title on the list and thinking about my thought from several days back actually caused this thought to appear in my head back then in the past?

What if I actually can have my present mind to be sent to the past?

WHAT IF THERE IS A WAY TO COMMUNICATE WITH MY PAST SELF THROUGH TIME?

 

Time loops
 
To make sure, I tried to send this phrase telepathically to my past self into these precise moments where this thought actually appeared in my mind "out of nowhere" (well, now I at least know where it could came from ), to "close the time loop" and strengthen it up.
 
This might seem paradoxical at first: why should I send to the past something I already know happened? Hasn't it happened anyway?
Well, maybe... But what if it happened precisely because I made it to happen from the future?
But this reverses the cause-effect order: I first have had this idea "out of nowhere", and then I've sent it to myself from future into past, and not the other way around. Future events cannot cause past events, right?
Well, not necessarily. I'll get back to that in a minute. But now I just say that this loop could have existed all the time, as a whole, from the very beginning. The time separation is only an illusion one has when "scanning" it one-directionally from past to present. See? It could be this way: I'm walking around, not expecting anything happening; suddenly I receive an idea from the future me, which inspires me to do something, which in turn will cause the future me to send this idea into the past, and this is pre-determined from start ? a closed loop, or a "spacetime crystal" I'll tell you more about in a minute. Then it is not a paradox, and it doesn't break causality, because it is these events in the past and my own decisions and plans I make at present about what to do in the future, which will influence my future self to send me these informations so that I could receive them now. Got that?
 
Then I realized that I have had several of these experiences in the past, when being in a dream state and hearing my own voice talking to me and explaining some scientific stuff or inspiring the solutions to some problems I struggled with. So maybe my future self is already communicating with me? :>
 
So I started to wonder about possible methods / technologies which could make such trans-temporal communication possible.
 
Possibilities
 
First, I recalled an experiment of Israeli scientists with creating a quantum entanglement back in time and use it to know the quantum state of a particle which ceased to exist before they attempted to measure it. There's a way to make a quantum correlation of that particle with another particle when it still exists (just entangle it with another particle, which is not a measurement yet), then destroy the original particle, and then measure the state of that destroyed particle implicitly by measuring its entangled counterpart.
 
Then I recalled another "quantum miracle" I once read about: so called "spacetime crystals". These are theoretical systems which are supposed to oscillate indefinitely through time, making an ordered shape throughout the spacetime. It could be a ring of electrons dancing in a superconducting ring, for example. They're very similar to the spacetime loop I had the opportunity to experience recently.
 
I know of another phenomenon from quantum optics: so called "phase-conjugated mirror". It is a hypothetical device which could reverse the phase of light waves, so that they would bounce back to the direction they came from, going back to the light source over their own traces. Their phase would be reversed, which can be understood as "going backwards in time", since the phase is a "personal clock" of the wave. If such light waves had passed through some disturbing glass, then going back through it with a reflected phase they would restore the original undisturbed image!
 
And then, suddenly, I noticed that I received an e-mail from a guy who often sends me some more-or-less scientific news. And it was entitled: "QUANTUM OPTICS MAKES EXTRASENSORY PERCEPTION POSSIBLE", with a link to an article about some experiment of quantum-entangled brain cells of a mouse communicating through space.
 
No, this isn't happening! This can't be! This is some serious stuff happening here, and these "coincidences" are too serious to ignore! Receiving a message about quantum optics right in the moment when thinking about quantum optics? Quantum-entanglement mental communication through space involved? What are the odds of that?!

 

So I started to wonder which of these phenomena I could use to communicate with my past self.
 
The Science behind Magic
 
First, I needed a mirror.
But not some simple obvious flat mirror (otherwise anyone would figure it out long ago). It has to be a mirror capable of reversing the phase of light waves, or redirecting them in a way that they could return back to where they came from.
What mirror is capable to do that?

 

A concave mirror!

 

I once watched a documentary about a Russian scientist named Kozyriev, who experimented with such mirrors and got intriguing results, which included obtaining some symbols suspiciously similar to some old writing systems of ancient Mesopotamia. I also read about John Dee, a famous Alchemist from Prague who supposedly contacted with Angels and received several messages from them, written in a cryptic alphabet which he called himself Enochian. Several scientists have studied these messages and they seem to agree that it has some resemblance of an actual language. I was yet surprised to find that John Dee also used such a concave mirror! Here's how it looks like:

 
Do you notice the crystal ball in front of it? It might not be a coincidence. Recall that such crystal balls has been used by many "magicians" in the past. Now it is used mostly as a fancy prop, and it is ridiculed, but what if these wisemen from the past actually knew something we don't know?
 
A crystal ball can be regarded as a concave mirror, too, but full 360 degrees around, and translucent. Such translucent mirrors are being used nowadays in quantum physics experiments as beam splitters, to split the light beam into two separate beams in exact same phase. Well, they're not round, but what if they were? A plain old lens can produce an interesting pattern of rings, called "Newton's rings", when put on a surface of a mirror:

 

 
This interference pattern of rings is also called Airy's disk, after George Airy who discovered it when passing light through different apertures. It depends on the angle of the aperture, which could be compared with the radius of curvature of the lens.
 
I remember I once read on Gabriel la Freniere's website (when he was alive and his website still existed) that electron's standing waves in atom could be compared to an Airy's disk for a 360-degree aperture. That is, for a lens which is ball-shaped. An atom can actually be regarded a microscopic crystal ball for the light waves and electron waves which pass through it and become trapped inside as a spherical standing wave pattern, producing the effect of spherical rotation in its center which is responsible for what we call "spin".
 
So what if a crystal ball is a macroscopic replica of atom and could make light waves to do the same, that is, to produce photons with spin in its centre? :> What if they can then jump out of our 3D space and travel through spacetime, as these spacetime crystals mentioned before? What if they can turn back and carry in some information? Or if they just can be modulated by some signals kicking around out there in the 4D spacetime?
 
Experiments
 
I made some experiments with concave mirrors. I didn't have such a mirror, so I used a metal bowl. And I was very surprised by these experiments!
 
First off, there is a feeling of heat when I approach the bowl with my face, at the distance around 20 cm. I suppose it is from the infra-red waves (heat) radiated from my body and being reflected back. When I'm closer, there's a strange auditory effect: the ambient noise becomes less audible and muffled, but even the most silent sounds become clearly audible and amplified.
 
But the most intriguing are visual effects: When I place my head at a certain distance from the bowl and look into it in a certain way, I can clearly see a spherical image resembling a hologram! As if the whole surrounding space were projected on a spherical translucent screen!   (I wonder what could happen if i put a crystal ball in there.) The surface of this spherical image seems to be a kind of "boundary of space", after which the whole image flips inside out and spreads evenly over the whole surface of the bowl. I cannot focus my sight on that surface, no matter how much I try. As if its focal point was somewhere at the infinity.
 
When I put my head inside the bowl as close as around 10 centimeters off of its bottom, I can suddenly get focus and see my own face from all sides at the same time, somewhat similar to these face textures used in 3D video games:
 

 
But it also looks as if it flipped inside out; as if the outside world suddenly become inside my head, and if I flipped to the outside, looking at myself from the outside. Wicked! I wonder what would I see if the bowl has been replaced by a reflective metal sphere, full 360 degrees around me. What could I see when literally sitting inside this giant crystal ball? Could I see myself from all sides at the same time? Could I see my back, too?  
 
I tried to receive some messages from my future self through this device, but with not much luck. I got into trance and I've seen some weird images, but nothing much useful or science-related.
 
When science and pseudo-science fails, there's always Magic to fall back ;-J So I decided to change my method.
 
Better Methods => Better Results
 
I recalled these dreams where I heard my own voice explaining me some stuff. I had several dreams as such in the past, so it looks like I already tried to communicate with myself. And these dreams seem to be a better technique than Science and "technology". Magic is a higher level of "technology" after all. So I decided it would be better to use which works already: my dreams.
 
To help myself in this trans-temporal communication, I wrote a letter to myself, something in these lines:
 
"Hello, Mike! I'm writing to you from the past (here was the date I won't disclose to you in case someone were trying to sabotage my plan in the future ). If you read this, and you already know any of the things I listed on page 2, please send it to me into the past. On page 3 I will list some date-time moments you can aim with your message."
 
Then I wrote a list of all the things I don't know yet but I wish to know and attached to my letter as page 2.
 
On page 3 I write the timestamps of the moments I awake from my dreams, and this list grows continuously with time. I plan it to be a roadmap for my future self of all the moments in the past I was in the sleep, so that he could aim at these moments with his messages to deliver them into my dreams.
 
The Effects
 
They overgrew my expectations!
Since the date 0 I already have had several dreams where I was receiving some important knowledge :>
 
In one of these dreams I shared my dream body with my future self. He didn't speak anything; he was showing me my future notebook with scientific calculations in quantum physics, and he was turning pages carefully, as if he wanted me to "photograph" them all carefully with my eyes.
 
The other day I was listening to my own voice explaining me some scientific stuff.
 
Today was another dream as such. I found a map for a video game level I supposedly have drawn in my childhood, and under it I found a book called "Everything about electricity and magnetism". When I opened it, I saw a lot of pictures of wave simulations explaining electromagnetic phenomena by waves on water (with foam), representing quantum waves. There were diagrams of these waves and how do they behave in loops of wire to produce another waves which we see as magnetic fields. This was all amazing! But I didn't have much time to read it, so I only scanned through all these pictures. When I came to the end of the book and closed it, I noticed... a muffin left on the table   It was yummy.
 
Why I think this was a message from my future self?
Because if I were me in the future, I'd do exactly that to send the message.
First, I'd plant something which would bring my attention and associations with time loops. I cannot think of a better way than some of my past artworks, since it is which started this whole time-looping idea.
Then, I'd leave the actual message. A book is a good form for passing knowledge. Also, the foam on the water waves is pretty symbolic, because it is a direct reference to the famous quote from Erwin Schrödinger, the father of wave quantum mechanics. He says that every physical phenomenon is caused by waves formed from the empty space itself, and what we perceive as "particles" and "fields" are merely "schaumkronnen" (appearances, literally "foam on water").
And the muffin is just a reward  and a reference to present, where I'm a pony fan.
Wrapping up
 
Phew! What a long post! I hope you enjoyed it and not get bored. It pretty much sums up my recent experiments with time-looping to send/receive messages to/from my future self (trans-temporal communication).
 
I'm very curious what do you think about all this. Does it make sense? Maybe you'd like to try it yourself, too?

Edited April 17, 2014 by SasQ

[Skull 18]

Of all the wierd experience i saw,this is definitly the wierdest...

 

It's pertty cool thought.

Edited April 17, 2014 by SkullX2

[Rhythmic Tempo 49]

Im tempted to give it a shot, although it requires time and I am a master of procrastination. Though I have wondered on the same things that you have said here, about messages coming from my future self, but felt it was quite crazy. Being as i'm not super big on quantum physics (Im a 10th grader XD) I tried to understand this as best as I could, and I felt like I got most of it down. 

 

Ill probably give it a shot over the next week or so, and most likely post the results here

[M'aiq the Liar 5,804]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_suicide_and_immortality Sounds fairly similar in idea to this.

[Something Floaty 1,333]

If I could travel through time, I would go to Ford's Theater on April 15, 1865, and intervene as John Wilkes Booth attempted to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. Before he took aim, I would sneak up behind him, grab him around the neck, choke him into unconsciousness, and take his weapon. After explaining that I had just prevented Booth from assassinating him, Lincoln would likely thank me for saving his life. I would say "Thank you, Mr. President. It is truly an honor to meet you, I've traveled back from the year 2014 to prevent this from happening so that I might get the chance to speak with one of our greatest Presidents. Unfortunately, I cannot tamper with the integrity of linear time." Then I would surprise everyone by shooting him in the head. 

[SasQ 1,355]

@@Something Floaty, you're not thinking four-dimensionally, Marty  

 

 

If you succeeded in this task, we would already live in a different world and know nothing about Lincoln's assassination, and you wouldn't have any reason to go back in time.

 

I was thinking about this very problem when I wondered about myself influencing my past self. Since no such breakthrough has happened in my past, I guess I didn't succeed with influencing my past so far. So sending any messages into moments in which I didn't received any message is a waste of time, since it won't work anyway, and I already know that.

 

But I also know about these moments when I actually got some messages received (I described some of them above), which makes me believe that it might work if done properly, according to the causality rules.

 

From future you can cause only what has happened already and you know about it (I call it "closing the loop"). I cannot influence my past self too much from what influenced me already in the past, but my future self can still influence me here and now, causing which is already his own future.

 

There also isn't much sense in writing down the timestamps after you woke up from a dream in which you didn't received any messages or anything which might look like that. Because sending messages to these dreams won't work (or didn't work).

Edited April 17, 2014 by SasQ