Timey Wimey, Wibbly Wobbly stuff
I hate to disappoint all y'all, but this is not a Dr. Who post. And this is not a short story. This is my daily life... in a nutshell. Carry on! If anything, I might have made a mistake by introducing the very thought of conjecturing that time is only linear in our inertial reference frame and not anywhere else. That's right, nonlinear, chaotic time. So what does that mean? It would mean that time travel is possible. It would mean that our inertial reference frame is not the only reference frame capable of existing. It would also mean that our basis of all physics is wrong. We rely, rather heavily, on rate of change. That motion not only has a magnitude but a direction which is dependent on time. Well, that's lunacy! You would say. And that would be quite right because we would cease to exist. Our inertial frame would not exist because this is the way physics works for us. Why the sam hell would I even contemplate such things? Well, it was ...