Time travel is round the corner. Maybe its already happened and we left it back around the last corner. But whenever it decides to go public, there will be chaos. And whenever there is chaos on an international level, US rushes in to take control and Al-Quida wants to take on the blame. So to stop this monotonous drama, my colleague, Sugna Jairam (from hereon referred to as Chachi) and I, Krishanu Mathur lay down the rules of Time travel.
As Science in its myriad tales will reason out, going back in time is not an option. Time travel helps you jump the time coordinate, but you can not interact with the space around you. So, the following rules have been laid out keeping in mind the following:
1. You can only go into the future
2. Since you can not interact without the space around you, you can not change nor become a part of the future. This effect will make it impossible for you to listen to people's conversation and observe anything else except what you came to see.
3. A person's future is a perception of his/her mind based on his personal life and decisions over the past. This inherent property of time travel deprives the user to use time travel to see someone else's future apart from his/her.
Keeping all these things in mind, here are the rules:
1. Everyone gets 3 trials in a lifetime to visit the future
2. These 3 trials can not be utilized before one turns 21 years old
3. Everytime you visit the future, the year you travel to becomes your minimum compliance. i.e you can not go to a time before the years that you have already visited.
4. You get a birds eye view of your future and can travel from one spot to another as long as it is in direct relation to the topic you came to explore.
5. Since a person's life is controlled by innumerable variables, the future is decided looking at a persons past decision making abilities.
6. Every minute spent in the future will be x times the minutes in the present. This x will not be 1 and in most probability will be less than 1(we'l let science take care of that).
7. For every minute you are not in the present, your life comes under the control of random sampling and decisions taken during that time will rely entirely on the global mean of decision making.
8. Respecting the notion of string theory, the more the number of people that use time travel and are close to you, the more focussed and probable will be your future.
Play safe.
