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Time Travel with Two Hats |
People say it's impossible. I remember it wasn't too long ago that people said you couldn't fly, or go to the moon, or that it was obvious the sun revolved around the earth. I'm sure everyone who believed those things were impossibilities felt they were absolutely correct in those beliefs. The more educated among them even had very logical arguments to support what they knew was true. Probably the people who believed otherwise got very frustrated trying to suggest there was another way to look at the universe and that actually something completely different might be true. Someone like Christopher Columbus or Erik the Red or the unknown Viking explorers who went before them might have been angry if anybody told them they hadn't been where they had, or done what they did. Time travel is like that. You may not understand completely how or why it happened, but you know it did. Having been faced with this situation myself, I reacted by becoming curious. I looked at what happened, the first time I experienced that conflux of events, and wondered what was unique about the circumstances and how I might encounter them again. A fairly substantial list of factors was involved, and in researching these things I noticed that the only other group of people who are truly interested in these same things are either shamans like me, or people who are interested in time travel. We use the same tools. We also seem to disappear a lot. Sometimes, we don't come back. |