Jon_Lyle

YOU-present travel to a future (in this future, no one knows that you have left, and the majority of people who know you still remember you - no one notices that you left - small jump) YOU-present still exist. YOU-present travel to a future (in this future, the majority of people who know you know that you were not around during "present" to "future" times - or no one who knows you are still alive) YOU-present do not exist. Possibly a new being will come into existance at arrival time, but will not be "you" - will have a new identity/soul assigned to it. Possibly, no being will ever exit at arrival date. YOU-present travel to a past (in this past, you existed already) YOU-present do not exist. Possible consciousness/memory of YOU-present merges/is imprinted on YOU-past and YOU-past is aware of YOU-present's experiences. Possible consciousness/memory of YOU-present merges/is imprinted on YOU-past and YOU-past experiences a few isolated cases of deja vu. Possible YOU-present no longer exists. YOU-present travel to past (in this past, you have never existed)YOU-present do not exist. Possibly a new being will come into existance at arrival time, but will not be "you" - will have a new identity/soul assigned to it. Possibly, no being will ever exit at arrival date.

As long as you didn't alert the fact that the dis-assembly of "you" was being replaced by a new assembly of "you" in such a manner that the collective conciousness of humanity (i.e. the majority of individual cognitive interpretations) realized that the latter "you" was in no way composed of any elements of the origional "you" (the blueprint of "you" not itself consisting of any physical elements of "you", but being in itself a separate reference only), you could be said to have been teleported. This being based on the idea that the identity of "you" can only be defined by what the collective consciousness of humanity depicts you as (in effect, your "soul"). Thereby, the latter "you", being the only "you", would have impressed upon it the "soul" and resulting characteristics of definition of "you" by the collective consciousness of humanity. So, if you controlled the information (realization) of what has transpired in relation to the human majority, you will have teleported. If, however, the information was not supressed (misreported) from that majority, then the collective consciousness would not accept or identify the new "you" as you and therefore the new "you" would not recieve the "soul" of the old "you" and would instead be imparted with a new soul, whose characteristics would be defined by the collective consciousness. It is a matter of information/misinformation control. (or good salesmanship)

I apologise in advance if this is a dumb or inapropriate question. I must admit that I haven't read anything on this forum site and do not know the scope of what topics are covered here. I only wish to know about something that has been bugging me this past week. I was finished with work for the day, and was waiting for an ok from the boss to leave. He had the engine running in his truck, and I noticed that I could see the swirling shadows of the exhaust from his tailpipe, but could not see the exhaust gasses themselves. So, I am wondering what it was in the exhaust that caused the shadows, and why I haven't noticed other non-visible objects or particles causing shadows before. Is it actually a physical attribute of the gas, or is the heat distorting the lightwaves, or some other reason?