Time Travel (On Wednesday)

I put the feelers out yesterday for the …On Wednesday topic this week. I thought giving my Inner Beings chance to think of something to say would be a better option than having another blank blog post like last Wednesday’s, courtesy of my Inner Zombie.

Not that it was entirely my Inner Zombie’s fault, I hasten to add, but maybe, on reflection, I should have been a little more present in what he did try to post.

So, yesterday, I cast the thought into the deepest recesses of my mind. “Time Travel”, I thought, whilst concurrently thinking “I’d like a volunteer”.

Those Inner Beings of mine can be very vocal when not asked for an opinion or thought on anything, but when asked they blend into the very cobwebs of my mind. I caught sight of Thomasina (my Inner Woman) dashing into a dark recess in my mind’s eye, shortly before she shoved this week’s ‘volunteer’ out of her way. The volunteer, unfortunately, was trying to hide in the same recess as my Inner Zombie and grabbed his arm as Thomasina shoved him out. The arm, needless to say, came away from my Zombie, causing my ‘volunteer’ to fall out into clear view and realise he was scuppered.

My Inner Beekeeper doesn’t really get much publicity. He doesn’t like the limelight, instead much preferring the company of his bees (which is quite a thought in itself, considering I never realised until now that I actually had Inner Bees…), but, reluctantly, he agreed to have a go at writing his thoughts on time travel:

It’s like this.
With linear time, everything appears to go in a straight line, from earliest to latest, and this is the form of time travel that we generally tend to use. With reflected, or remembered time, it can go in either of two ways; backwards (from latest to earliest) or in spots and starts – pockets of remembered time. Neither of these are very good for time travelling in, especially the latter as one could become stuck permanently in a particular pocket.
The best form of time travel is through concept. Not concept of thought, however, but concept of doing – or not doing, as the case may be. When doing something, time can sometimes speed up, and before we know it we’re out of time and have to move on to something else. However, the opposite to this is the boredom time. When doing nothing, and completely and utterly bored, time has a tendency to slow right down, so every second can feel like an hour… this phenomenon also happens when waiting to cross the road at a pedestrian crossing on a cold and rainy day waiting for the lights to change. But again, concept time travel only moves forward… and it’s only the speed of time that is altered here.
The final, and most tried and tested method of time travel, is waiting for the Mansion to shift. The Mansion has a tendency to manipulate quite a lot of things around, below and within it. The downside here is that it’s the Mansion that decides when and where things will be, not the resident(s) or traveller(s), so control of the time travel element of time travel is kind of already lost.
I think time travel will be possible one day, but I’m a beekeeper not a chronolologist, so what do I know?
Now, if you don’t mind, I must get back.

Charming. Another Inner Grump. I mean, thanks for your thoughts there, Inner Beekeeper.

And there we have it. Thoughts on time travel from my thought’s thoughts, in just over 300 words or so. Whether they’re accurate or not is anyone’s guess, but you’ve read it first here. A beekeeper’s thoughts on time travel. We tackle the tricky topics here at Within the Sphere. What will be discussed next time …On Wednesday? And who will be doing the discussing? Find out next time…