Currently, we’re all in a state of motion. Not only is the earth rotating, it is hurtling through space and time. Seemingly, we can’t feel or sense this motion, but I wonder: is this something our body grows accustom to when we are born? Is it possible that some disease or illness could be caused by our body reacting to sensing this motion or sensing the movement of time? There are mental illnesses, different balance illnesses (i.e. vertigo, labyrinthitis, etc), and illnesses that can’t even be explained by modern science so I wonder if this movement through time and space is a cause. What brought me to this idea was the thought of time travel. Say, if one traveled back in time 100 years, what effects would that really have on the body? Let’s also ask, what if the earth was rotating slightly slower 100 years ago, how would that affect the time traveler both mentally and physically? Just think about the rigorous training astronauts go through just to be in an environment of zero-gravity and in an orbit that is probably a different speed than the earth. After returning to earth, they seem happy enough, but did that zero-gravity experience spark some sort of illness due to a huge variation of their body’s movement through time? I haven’t completely thought this idea through, but I wanted to throw my thoughts out there. It’s moments like these that make me want to go back to college and study the sciences. Or just be an eccentric old man that pretends he was a scientist.
