Thursday, December 24, 2015
Tralfamadore
Billy, after his trip to Tralfamadore, writes, "The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist." (Vonnegut, 26-27). It's really crazy to think about this quote. All things that will happen in the future, already exist. All the moments in the past, still exist. Imagine if this were real, and we could see all the moments just like the Tralfamadorians. Do you think this is all possible?
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Well, since we are organisms that can only see few dimensions we can't really rule out the idea of other dimensions. Also, the idea of time is a concept we have constructed based on our position in the Universe so if other organisms did exist they could possible have a different idea of time and how we see time. As humans we think we know so much but in the big scheme of things we are very new and know very little about our universe.
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