That last passage in Sophie's World is stuck in my head...
The one where Sophie and her teacher talk about the universe and the origin of all things...
And the stars...

The stars we see in the night sky are so many light-years away from us...
And a light-year is the distance light travels in one year...
So technically, when we gaze up into the stars, we're looking at light that's been travelling across trillions of miles for anywhere from 20 to a million years ago...
When we gaze up into the stars, we're looking into the past...

And maybe that's what true time travel is...

The space-time continuum, or whatever it is, is a star that radiates light...
And we're all just points in space, watching what this star shoots at us...
And that's life
Watching something that's been in motion for god knows how many years...

If you go back with the light, to retain your vision of a particular image of that star, you're frozen in time...
But if you go back fast enough, you start moving away from the star faster than the light is..
You see the images change before your eyes, to one's you know, one's you've already seen...
And that's going back in time... Recalling memories...

But if you fight forward...
You get closer to the center of things,
To the true nature of that star

But then it's so hard to fight forward,
Because living itself is like withstanding an explosion of images being emitted at full blast...
And we're kept back because we just can't do it...
We can't handle moving forward because it's hard enough just digging your heels into the ground and trying not to be taken back with that flow of light...
And you'd rather cherish each moment rather than fast forward through life...
Take the scenic route...

But the point is that even when here on earth, no matter how much we're walk through our lives and we think we're moving forward
All we have to do is take one look up into the night sky to realize
That we're just stuck in the past...