Time Travel

Fiction doesn' get it. There is no Now. I'm going to capitalize the word for this entry.

There is a Now in your head. That is, you think you do. There is a perception of a Now. You think you know what Now is. You think you know what is going on. We as a race of beings are about half a second behind Now. We take a bit to react to things that happen. We remember things that happened in the past. When you are concentrating on something, you are remembering about half a second in the past.

That said, our existence is a point along a line of information. The point moves, we think of this as time. Does the point move though? Do we remember a lifetime through a moving filter or are we simply sitting, experiencing an entire life all at once and this seems like a motion through a time line?

That is a bit philosophical for me. Let's assume we are moving through a line. Each moment we call Now as we pass through or past it. Let's also assume that the entire universe experiences the Now phenomena. Are all the Now experiences the same? Is there one massive Now in the universe and each of us experience the passing of that Now at different rates?

Analogy? Analogy? ... Ah

The universe is a bucket. The bottom of the bucket has many holes of different sizes. The bottom of the bucket is the universal Now and the holes of varying sizes allow more time to flow though at different rates. No time travel allowed.

Or

Are there many different Now floating through the universe. This is the only way any one could time travel. If any part of the universe can exist at a different Now, then there must be some floating around.

Analogy? Analogy? ... Ah

Every point in the universe is a glowing light traveling through existence interacting and reacting as needed. The universe is simply a place to have an existence. The universe does not control time.

What do I think?

I really think the first way is the way it is. There is one universal Now and everything in the universe can simply get more done in that Now, or less depending on how big their hole in the bottom of the bucket happens to be. No time travel.