#40 Time Travel for Beginners

Special thanks to my older brother, “The Professor”, Bret Riggle, for breaking the complexity of so much of this down into understandable concepts for me.

Time, is the variable that we can’t ignore if we care about connection and fulfillment.

In this episode we get into broadening perspective on what it is beyond just being something that traditional clocks measure.

History, Science, Religion, Astronomy, Spirituality, and Philosophy haven’t been able to pin it down fully.

We get into pop culture, movies, shows, journals, scriptures, and all kinds of ways it is defined and interpreted differently by geniuses, scientists, mathematicians, physicists, and theologians, and everyday people like yours truly. I share 5 techniques from a curious, non-expert, but life long obsessive observer on how we can manipulate it to work in our favor.

  1. Imagine a time when you are younger, and you time traveled to this moment.
  2. Imagine a time when you are much older and you travel to this moment.
  3. Remind yourself and others that you don’t have a physical time machine.
  4. The techniques of Metacognition, Mindfulness, and Breathing
  5. Travel to the past and have a 1:1 conversation with your old self.

Here is a, in no-way comprehensive list, of some of my favorites for entertainment and food for thought on time and time travel.

Best Time Travel Movies and Series

“Primer”, “Back to the Future”, “About Time”, “Men in Black 3”, “X-Men: Days of Future Past”, “Dr. Who”, “Dark”, “Quantum Leap”(Scott Bacula version), “Sliders”

Best Time Loop Movies

“Ground Hog Day” (uncontested), “Edge of Tomorrow”, “Palm Springs”, “Source Code”, “12:01 pm”.

Fictional Novels on Time Travel

“Einsteins Dreams” by Alan Lightman, The Chronos Files #1-3″ by Rysa Walker, “The Time Machine” by H.G. Wells

Physicists and Researchers who broke new ground on Time

Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Nathan Rosen, Erwin Schroedinger, Ludwig Flamm, Stephen Hawking, Noah Linden, Juan Maldacena, Albert Tsao, Frank Wilczek

Interesting publications and articles of proof and theory

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-brain-creates-a-timeline-of-the-past-20190212/

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-time-a-history-of-physics-biology-clocks-and-culture-20200504/

https://www.apa.org/monitor/oct03/mental

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/quantum-entanglement-weirder/

https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-023-05356-w#:~:text=Clinical%20implications,a%20psychological%20and%20physical%20level.

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