IMAGINE: you are able to talk to yourself anywhere in time

I was Googling images of time travel when I found my book among the results. I remembered having posted the photo in my blog, so that’s it. Among the many images were lookalikes of famous people from long ago. 

When I was young and grazing the beasts under my care (cows and water buffalo), I wondered how Maya birds recognized each other’s relatives whenever a flock flew over the rice field. They all looked alike, and then, with an amusing thought, the Maya birds could likewise be wondering how we humans recognize each other. We all have hair, eyes, ears, noses, and mouths.

My daughters said, I look like Jackie Chan – ha ha ha! With 7 billion denizens of planet Earth alone, you can reshuffle our DNA only so much and end up with some who look alike with only a few differences. Although in a lottery, only one or a few can win, hundreds differ from the winner by only one number, and thousands more by two digits. This means that, with 7 billion people on Earth, some will end up looking like me, or I will look like them. Imagine a multiverse universe where the stakes infinitely increase…not one, but many will look exactly like me – a parallel universe.

One of the most intriguing physical proofs that time travel could be possible is that an old woman was accidentally caught talking into what appeared to be a cell phone in a Charlie Chaplin movie. The puzzle, though, that not many people come to talk about is…to whom was she talking to?

With the theoretical possibility of the existence of exotic sub-sub-subatomic (dark matter) particles so miniscule it is beyond our observation by any available machine at present (Large Hadron Collider) – we may in the future develop the technology to communicate with someone somewhere in time, meaning I can communicate with myself in another place in time, but wow…it’s mindboggling scary. Just think about it…it’s insanely crazy. Suppose the speed of light is the only barrier between now and anywhere else in time. In that case, we may be able to communicate with ourselves from any point in time and anywhere in the past, at a specific moment when the technology becomes available, no matter how fantastical it may seem. We may even talk to ourselves beyond the grave. (Don’t search the internet. This is my own theoretical fantasy.) 

These are objects that may have been sucked into a wormhole (time tunnel) and transported over long distances in time. Many scientists believe that wormholes were a consequence of the Big Bang, which occurred in varying sizes.

Oftentimes, I wonder why the Kaaba in Mecca is clad in black, and the ritual of ‘Taw’waf’ (circumambulation) is counterclockwise, the same direction all galaxies rotate, and planets in our solar system orbit around the sun. Did God give us a timeless message? If you are not a Muslim reading this, the Kaaba is the first house of worship dedicated to God, built by Prophet Abraham (a.s.) and his son Ishmael (a.s.). They originated the ritual of counterclockwise circumambulation by the command of the Almighty.

If you had told me 30 years ago, when I had to drive 173 km and pay 8 riyals per minute to call my family in Manila, that one day in the not-so-distant future, you, my friend, would carry in your pocket a small gadget that would let you call anyone anywhere on the planet and send a telegraphic (TXT) message of 160 characters at a negligible price of one peso, I would have called you insane—absolutely insane. 

If you were to tell me now that, in the not-so-distant future, I will be able to talk to the same me with my cellular phone from another time and place, I believe you.