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Imagine a bundle of threads that is tied together at one end, and loose at the other, with a slider slowly moving forward
and joining the loose threads into a single rope. That is time. The joined threads behind the slider are the past. There is
only one. The loose threads are the futures. There are many. The slider is the present. It moves forward to join the many
futures in to the one past. I thought up this mechanism when me and my best friend were having a conversation about time travel
in the future, and that how, if time travel were ever invented, we'd be seeing people from the future now. But there's a loophole.
We also wouldn't see people from the future if we were the real present. The fact that we're not seeing people from the future
either disproves time travel, or proves that we're the slider, not a point in the joined threads. I myself believe the latter
idea. Because I can't really say that time travel is impossible. Why? Because, in the threads that we've yet to make converge,
anything can happen. The past is bound together, and there's always just one. But the future is always plural and unfettered.
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