What do you believe in: Fate, Coincidence, or Choice?

[Dodece]

Don't question the existence of time for there is where madness lies. We have two diametrically opposed theories that form the foundation of modern physics. In General Relativity Time is a dimension, and while it may seem to be arbitrary. In that my time doesn't necessarily flow at the same rate as your time. We both nevertheless experience the flow of time.

While in Quantum Mechanics the arrow of time not only doesn't exist, but at a fundamental level it doesn't really matter. Effects can precede the cause. Both can happen at the same moment. Not to mention that things can be both in multiple places at the same instant in time. In Quantum Mechanics time doesn't exist.

Which leads to a supreme irony. Based on our most cherished theories time both exists, and doesn't exist, and we have no theory that explains why it seems to exist on one scale, but it doesn't even register in the other. I have pondered this often enough, and I almost always reach the same conclusion. That time is like every other dimension except unlike up and down, left or right, backwards or forwards. It goes in and out.

Perhaps it is a impossible concept to express, because there aren't word to express what I see in my mind, but maybe I can do it some poor justice. I see a Universe that isn't just expanding outward, but a Universe that is expanding both outward, and inward. With time going in two directions simultaneously down towards the infinitely small, and out towards the infinitely big. To me when you go towards the very small in a very real sense you are going backward through time from our perspective.

To me this means that all these possibilities are very real, and in a way they must be real. For me the future can effect the past even if ever so slightly. Coincidence and Fate may just be the effect of choices that I have made in a future that are fundamentally changing the past. Perhaps thoughts can echo backwards through time, and we are merely reacting to any number of possible futures. Our intuitions, and the connections we make. May simply be us connecting two events that were connected through a different flow of time. Which the bulk of our minds cannot perceive.

Let us say one night while driving home I decided to slow down my car, because the idea of a Deer popped into my head out of nowhere, and a minute later coming around a curve I see a Deer standing in the road, and I can stop in time where as I wouldn't have been able to earlier. Was that merely the same Electron in the same Neuron resonating with their own counterparts in the future.

Anyway I wouldn't want to pick, because in the end all of these choices may just be different words for the same thing. Just a matter or effects preceding cause encroaching in a world that predominantly flows in the other direction.