To you it may look like just a cardboard box. The cat thinks so, too. But in fact it’s the world’s cheapest working time machine.
Close the flaps, activate the secret power source (sorry, can’t tell you unless you buy it), and send the unsuspecting cat into the future. It takes five minutes, for example, to send the cat five minutes into the future.
The cost is negotiable. I’ll take pretty much anything.
(When I pitched this concept, years ago, to my wife and to my brother-in-law, they laughed themselves silly. I don’t get no respect.)
Ah, but can you send the cat back again? Or does that cost extra?
Actually, closing the flaps on a cat for five minutes without having the cat take it as a challenge to destroy the box might be the trickiest maneuver.
Alas, the cheapest working time machine can only send its passengers very short distances into the future, with no return possible. I think a rival company is preparing to market a time machine that will send passengers very short distances into the past. I don’t think the government should allow it. Democrats will use it as another technique of voter fraud.
If cat were a race, I think you’d have some in you. You’re as playful as they are, and just as funny. Here’s to the future! Or the past? If we send democrats to the future, there’s no return to the present. What happens when we catch up? If we send democrats to the past, there’s also no return to the present. And they can’t catch up. Seems to me if we want to market your invention, we should extend the time machine so far back they’d all be dead by now.
You’ve cracked the secret of time travel. Cats are the geniuses behind it. 🙂
The thing that always got me about time travel: what if you went back into the past an hour, a day, or a week? Wouldn’t there be two of you, then? And if the two of you went back together another hour, then there’d be three–and so on.
Well, if you went back in time, you’d be back in the same place you were in the past and because you are back in the past, the insights you had when you started your time journey would still be at the same point in time when you began traveling back. Time travel is physically impossible. They can speculate all they want, but there is only one reality, only one of you, only one of me.
I read a “physics book” about time travel and black holes, written by the famed physicist, Kip Thorn. He fell into that very trap, thinking that your future self could encounter your past self if you traveled into the past. Without realizing it, he had just invalidated the very theory he had proposed.
In 1 Corinthians 11, Paul taught us about our God being a God of order. Time travel is fun to think about, but the one way vector of time is part of God’s order. The Bible alone tells us that God is a timekeeper.
These days it’s very easy to find people who forget science fiction is fiction.
Sadly, some of those people are scientists and people take them seriously.
I hope there are Virtual Reality videos in Heaven so we can be projected into the times of Jesus of Nazareth and experience it in the same way His disciples did.
Actually, cats long ago discovered how to project themselves beyond the fourth dimension (time) into the fifth dimension (who knows?). They can manage to disappear utterly — nowhere to be found even when you’ve looked into, under, behind, on top of, and roundabout everything in the house — only to show up suddenly in the middle of the room and look at you as though they can’t imagine what your problem is.
I’ve had it happen in my home numerous times. 🙂
LoL!