The Shoes, and the Puzzle of Time: A Thought Experiment

This is my thought experiment based on fundamental physics concepts about time that has been in my mond for a while. Imagine you’re planning to attend a meeting. Your plan is simple: first, put your shoes on, then follow the other necessary steps, and finally arrive at the meeting to discuss the topic.

In a normal situation, time passes at the same rate for you and for everyone else if your speed is same, so no one in the meeting will ever see anything surprising. The sequence is clear, and the discussion stays focused on the original intended topic.

Now, let’s explore two alternative scenarios that challenge our understanding of time and sequence:

1. Wormhole Scenario:

Imagine you have access to a “time tunnel” or a wormhole that allows you to jump instantly from the step of putting your shoes on directly to the meeting. Then the topic of meeting will be: “where is your shoes” because you skipped this steps. Some scientists says you skipped sequence of steps but others not so they might see your shoes but you don’t!

2. Faster-than-Light Travel Scenario

According to theory of special relativity, nothing with mass travel faster than the speed of light. But time travel is not fun if we cannot reverse time and accept this default limitation. Let’s go wild with this and imagine you can travel faster than speed of light. Then some say you do not have the shoes but I think we have because we followed sequence but the topic of meeting is not my shoes anymore. The question in the meeting is “where did you come from? You just popped out here”

I am still trying to bake this thought but why there are default limitations? Like initial settings in a simulation.