Darren asked:

I am not a scientist, I am 27 years old and I have an idea in relation to time. It is not a subject which
has consumed much of my "time", but for some reason I feel the need to confirm or deny my
beginning of an idea and to know if it is (and I strongly presume it is not) a good basis for a theory.

Assuming time is unique to each individual. Could not each person have their own timeline i.e.. from
birth through life your actual timeline remains a constant. You move along your timeline at your
speed. The speed you progress along it is set — it cannot be altered, you can neither move slower or
faster. This reinforces the theory that "now" does not exist because each individual has their own
timeline, also because of this, the universe would continue to evolve without sentient beings, if one
person's timeline is omitted other timelines would not be effected. This also runs with nature's natural
cycles (for a crude example,the earth will evolve and the end of its natural cycle is collision with the
sun — this is the earths timeline).

Every living object has their own timeline, the only objects which do not have a timeline (or natural
cycle) are those created by man.

Each person moves through space along their timeline at their speed (time).It is therefore not
possible to move back or forward along your own timeline, but is is possible to move to other people's
timelines at any point. Events and future scenarios are always there, they are the background/ the
"space". Your timeline can alter direction to move through events which it would not normally cross
but overall events/ scenarios "float"/ pass across yours and everybody else's timeline and are
therefore not totally predictable but the number of events crossing your timeline at any point can be
numerous.

Despite actions/ future actions it must be remembered that no two individual timelines ever cross. If
lines are crossed then maybe this is time travel.

Time is also therefore not universal, and to use the experiment with the atomic clocks as an example,
this can not be related to time travel because each person's timeline in the experiment has remained
the same, you have not changed their timeline in any way or the speed they travel along it.

Is this new idea (does it make sense!)or can you point me to other similar theories. For some reason
to me it seems to work and explains a lot of paradoxes about time or backs up other theories i.e.
absolute conception of space.

I am a layman and would be interested in knowing more about the paradoxes and theories to see if
this idea can be extrapolated to provide answers.

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I'm answering this because you seem in earnest.

Um... you're wrong.

No this is not a new idea. No it does not make sense.

That's the summary. I'll highlight a few points. For one thing, think about this: time is the basis of
movement, right? That is, an object or whatever traverses a distance in a time interval, and so it
moves... that's what movement is,right? Now, a) how then do you "move through" time; b) how does
"time move"??? That doesn't work, if you think about it.

A "timeline". Ok, now just what isthat, besides a spatial metaphorfor a particular comprehension of
time? Yes, yes... maybe you've read about "timelines" in relativity, in sci-fi, or whatever. A timeline in
relativity comes from a very particularanalysis of time and motion, which does notfit with what you're
saying. Anything else is just metaphor.

Ok... "every living object has their timeline"... you're confusing at least two concepts of time here. One
has to do with eventstaking place "in time"; another has to do with the passageof time (which by the
way doesn't really mean anything... another metaphor). "Events" means something... but I don't think
you know what that is, because no one else does either. Or to put it another way, there are lots of
theories out there about what an "event" is. The "passage of time" is yet another, yes, spatial
metaphor for time that we use to comprehend certain aspects of it.

There's just too much confusion for me to go further... you keep taking metaphors as if they are
reality. "Timelines", "scenarios", "backward", "forward"...

Look... before you do anything elseon this subject, read these books:

Lakoff, G. Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things.2nd ed. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago
Press, 1990.

Lakoff, G., and M. Johnson. Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to
Western Thought.1st ed. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1999.

Steven Ravett Brown