Test in Time: Part 3

The following argument marvels at questionable anti-theories that regard the theory of the universe as bogus because reflection isn't something that people can control but, if we consider, most things that people make or think they own are things they have little or no control over like the ancient battle of Boethius with Fortune (no complete control). It is also a conversation I had with my friend.

"The concept is original but it does not work. There is the un-realistic factor of your explanation of time. In reality you can not time travel."

"It hasn't been disproved yet."

"It can't be proven."

"But then, its in limbo. You can't just throw it away like the interesting idea about glowing red fish."

"Reflection, as it happens, is correct," said he now adjusting his flaxen, silk, embroidered with a "O.G." green hat, "It's just unreasonable. Reason is nowhere to be found in it."

"Why is that?"

"It's too simple and you're a complicated little man with too little interest in razors."

"Do you suppose the universe will wait beyond time or that time will supersede the universe?"

"I agree that they correlate; I don't agree that they can be put together to form a theory."

"Then you believe like the rest of the world, which is to do nothing about it."

"Yes," said the scientist (herein not me, I know nothing about science) with a triumphant smile, "It is better to accomplish nothing than to accomplish something which, as a whole, will be considered nothing."

"I suppose I can't have a theory about space and time and the universe without contradiction," I said, "Good day to you, sir"

"It's logic; not contradiction."

"Drinking coffee on a cold morning is logic, trying to disprove a theory without reason on either end is the appropriate behavior of a man that hates doorknobs and tires to open doors with his head, instead of his mind."

"You lock yourself into a world of easily-opened doors that way," the other scientist said (now he was playing the part of Fortune, so obviously more annoyingly).

"I don't understand," I said.

"You can find a new way," he said, "Without using doorknobs, an original way, like you found your theory."

"I see, so you try and help me?"

"I try to lock you, so you help yourself."

So I thought, "You're saying the universe is like this approach, it's a reflection of itself because it has nothing but expansion stopping it, it incorporates all points in time and even if part of it dies, it keeps going--so no matter how much we change the past (after being reflected back in time) we will still have a future."

"All by yourself, like I said."

"You knew!"

"Just the minor bits. If we come across all these open doors, we can't have reflection, now can we? All points in time would be just as annoyingly expanding as the universe, then you would be spiraling into different points in time when you time-travel or, as you say, think to time-travel. I still think this later part is impossible."

"Yea, yea," I said, "You also thought powdered donuts were among one of the most brilliant inventions since the printing press."

"They...so are."