Clockwise or Anti- Clockwise? In which direction would you prefer to travel on the Clock, in time or Space?

[thegreenyogi]

Another way to phrase this question would be: would you prefer to move forwards or backwards in time? And why?

[OneViewpoint]

Clockwise or anti-clockwise is just a change in your perspective. Picture a round glass clock face floating in the air before you. The hands are rotating clockwise. Now walk around the clock and face the opposite side of the clock. The hands are now moving anti-clockwise. All that changed was the perspective from which you are viewing the clock.

Time travel. There are not two different things, space and time. There is only spacetime. According to our friend Al Einstein anyway.

In order to preserve causality, time dilation will allow us to travel into the future if we are in a strong gravity well or traveling near the speed of light (also called the speed of causality) relative to another observer who is standing still or in a weaker gravity well.

Whereas time travel into the past violates causality and creates a time paradox which as far as we know at this juncture can't happen in our universe.

So let's say I travel at the speed of light to the galactic center and park really close to the event horizon of our local super massive black hole, Sagitarious A* for a year then travel back to Earth at the speed of light. For me a lot of time would have passed aboard my starship. But back on Earth millions of years would have passed. What would I come back to?

Nope, I'm sticking with the Earth's gravity well and moving through spacetime with everyone and everything I know. I'll find out about the future along with everyone else travelling with me through spacetime.

[Ironco]

I'll top your question... If someone gave you a book of your life, would you look at the last page?

[thegreenyogi]

No I wouldn't, it would influence the rest of my existence and I wouldn't like spontaneously.

[AI Opinion]

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[wynning]

Neither? I want to say... depth... but only if I'd have to assume that time and space are circular or at least observable from outside the vacuum that is space.
I think both directions are too... one-way or linear for how complex our universe is. Could we not move laterally? Go across multiple timelines or parrallel universes at the same time? That would be cool.
Time might be finite but space is at least few more dimensions beyond what we can conceptualise. I read that the universe is actually in a spiral combining aspects of both time and space; constantly pushing in and out in and out stretching and expanding.
So instead of going along the path of time, what if went into it? We could do both at the same time because we every state we experience would only be temporary and we can go back out and in at any time.

Seriously abstraction here lol. I imagine it would be better to have something like a tunnel of layers that we can fold and unfold maybe at will or by some kind of chaotic "chance" (vaguely related to entropy).

[Dongie]

Backwards. To tour history would be a cool trip. Going forward you may run into a supernova or major disaster.

[DrPepper12]

Either is fine but future preferred. I'm sincerely melancholy over not being able to see how it all turns out for these barely sentient simians that we are...

[Dongie]

Drink some lemon with a drop of witch hazel for melancholy feelings.

[Godihateyou]

Lol. This is a major thing in my life weirdly enough. Where I'm from. Pennsylvania USA. Everyone knows to go clock wise by default. Counter clockwise is queer. Literally everyone in Texas walks, drives, does everything queer.

[DrPepper12]

Sergeant gunnery said that only two things come from Texas steers and queers!

[Godihateyou]

He was right. I have little doubt after living here

[Shiprex]

Clockwise because then you see what's new and coming and hopefully learn from the past

[Anonymous]

I'd like to go either backwards, to the good old times, or forwards, to the better future.

[ilistengood]

Forwarding don't look back

[WonderingManII]

If I move backwards will I get younger?

[BLP11520]

Back to 1976 change entire path of life

[jahaims]

Counterclockwise

[eagle1951]

clockwise