Does the cat come back from the future? In a sense, the cat comes
back from your future, when you open the box.
From the outside-time perspective; what is going to happen to
that cat has already happened.

If it came to pass that you did open the box and see the cat;
then prior to your doing so; the pattern you-look-in-box, matching, you-
seeing-the-cat, already exists outside time (unknown to you at the
present).

Your pattern-matching future awaits you, yet you are free;
because it is your freely chosen future that awaits you! The
closer you get to the time you opened the box; the closer the you-
see-cat matching pattern gets back from the future. Then you
actually open the box- and the future has arrived! Yet you could
have chosen to not open the box; and that different choice future
would be what arrived.

In languages, there are different orders used in sentences. Some
languages may put the verb at the end; like: "The cat on the mat
sat". Other languages may say the verb earlier: "The cat sat on
the mat". The whole sentence is like a quantum of time, or
stepping stone. One may regard it as two waves that start at each
end of the sentence and meet in the middle. As you go along the
sentence from one end, the probability reduces of what it could
mean: "The cat..." at this stage you have first limited the field
to events involving a cat. "The cat sat..." has further limited
it to events involving "a cat that sat...".

The "backwards in time wave" starts at the other end: "the mat"
limits the probability function to mats, then the limitations
increase as you go along from that end towards the middle. So
then you get to 'things' that could be "on mats" once the wave
travelling back from the end of the sentence reaches "on the
mat". Eventually you have the forwards wave reading "The cat sat
on..." and the backwards wave reading "on the mat" and the sum of
'histories' that the sentence could have had, have disappeared
everywhere except on one path "The cat sat on the mat".

And since some languages may say "The cat on the mat sat"; an
alternative description of what looks like John Cramer's 'offer
wave, confirmation wave, transaction" interpretation of quantum
mechanics is possible, but the result is the same.

Comparing with John Cramer's theory: here there are offer and
confirmation waves running in tandem in both directions across
the sentence (across time). The cat sat on....(any takers for
what the cat sat on?)) and the other offer wave (mat, on
the..... (any takers for what sat on the mat?) Confirmation
waves: " on what?" offers shall be collapsed to: 'on the mat".
Also in the other direction back in time; "what? on" offers
shall be confirmed as "(cat) sat, on".

Thus a language sentence quantum event; where a wide range of
possibilities (sum of histories?) involving "a cat" and "the cat"
and "sitting" and "on something" and "sitting on something" and
"a mat" and "the mat"- these possibilities all shake out when the
offer waves and confirmation waves shake out to one transaction
"the cat sat on the mat" or (On the mat the cat sat).

Is there a point of no return? At some stage when you decide to
do something- is there a point where you are committed to the
next at least 100,000th of a second movement? Does one move
forward, by making deals with the universe? The universe plays
charades? "What will it be? Sounds like.. Looks like....Yep, Joe
Citizen definitely would like a micro-cell of "past-future" just
here to step on to, he's decided on his next 10.000th of a
second in space-time!?" Seems likely that the Creator arranged
things so we can kind of play hopskotch or musical chairs and
joining the dots with Him; making agreements with Him, as the
universe and us are created in tandem?

I just read bits of an amazing book: "QED The Strange Theory Of
Light And Matter" by Richard Feynman. There is so much clear
explanation in that book- better educate myself!

Sort of wonder: just as a sphere passing through "flatland" can
look a lot of different ways in a snapshot (can look like a
little circle through different diameters to a big circle cross-
section, of its varying diameter passing through the flat plane);
maybe this has something to do with the multiplicity of paths an
electron in 3D/3D space (time as reference, change of, 3D) can
travel. Maybe "electron travelling A to B" is a higher-
dimensional "object" that can be seen different ways from lower-
dimension view.

One may suppose that everything you do; involves your zapping
backwards in time adding that pattern as a confirmed future for
your past patterns; and zapping forwards in time adding a
confirmed past to whatever future patterns you may one day have?

Maybe the "amplitude" of the sentence "the cat sat on the mat" to
move backwards in time "mat, the; on sat cat, the". has some
relevance to the idea of Feynman that every particle has an
amplitude to move backwards in time (known as its anti-particle)?

Apparantly a backwards-in-time moving electron, a positron,
appears to move towards the original electron (itself), then meets
itself and anihalates to become a photon.

Suggests that electrons are lower-dimension side-views (sides of
"past","future") of a photon; just as you may see in flatland two
squares that are sides, rotations into flatland, of one cube-land
cube.

My guess is that "waves" are inter-dimensional, at least fractal-
inter-dimensional. After all, soon as you wave a flat surface it
looks like it's creating "cube-land" type depth even if just a
wavey flat surface. Fractal dimensions wave, between flatland and
cubeland????

A sphere passing through flatland could be regarded as a
changing 'diameter-wave' that appears from nowhere, increases to
a maximum, then dissapears down to zero again. If it oscillated
through flatland- you would get this wave cycle repeating but
would never be able to pin down where it was (position); without
losing a full account of its diameter-change momentum.

I just thought: an electron heads back in time (so is a positron)
towards its former electron self. Maybe gravity is about mass
heading backwards in time towards its former all-together state
(nearer big bang)? Gravity as a tendency to reunion of universe-
creation "college old boys"?

Mass may be a "backwards in time" phenomenon- that ties down the
future of an object. By comparison, energy is a "forwards in
time" phenomenon: opens up the future of an object (lots of
options when you've got energy; lots of inertia when you've got
mass!

So mass would be "energy going backwards in time"? And energy
would be "mass going forwards in time"? Mass restricts the
future, energy opens it up? So energy as mass going backwards
in time (more options nearer big bang?) and mass as energy going
forwards in time? Futures repel; pasts attract futures.

-dolphin