Let's say those are not aliens, but descendants of humans from the future. I am simply tempted to analyse the prospect, regardless if it were true. This is just a mathematical analysis of a hypothetical situation, not that I believe or accept such a situation would exist.
If you analyse logically, if future people came back to their past to give us technology we had never invented before, then that would preempt its actual invention and cause the technology not to have been invented at all.
However, a reason why dogs eat poop or their own poop is because that is their way to effectively double the length of their digestive tracts, as we are well aware that dogs have short digestive tracts. If you have had a dog running around a horse or cow farm, you would understand. Or if you’ve seen (in disgust) your dog gobble-up a baby's poop or licking up a baby's diaper. There need to be starter material for the poop recycle. Someone has to eat an initial feedstock.
Similarly, the motivation why future people would want to pass their technology back in time, is to lengthen the effective development time of the technology. If the technology was recycled in time thro ten return loops then they would be able to achieve 5000 years of R&D by looping back 500 years 10 times.
But in order for the technology to exist to be cycled thro a stack of time loops, the following constraints must be maintained ...
- a seed technology must first be invented outside the time loop, as initial feedstock into the time loop.
- an uninterruptible 500 year conduit must be enforced to allow the technology thread to progress.
A solution to the 2nd constraint is to have segments of 50 year loops, as it would be easier to maintain political and social continuity within a 50 year period than 500 years, that is stable enough for the technology to pass back into the future to the originators of the time regression. Which would require protocols for stable and assured exchange of information from one loop segment to another.
Which would require us to analyse time in at least two dimensions. So what if time has three dimensions like the space we are aware of? However, time cannot be "actually" 3-dimensional, because time is a derivative of event sequencing and not a fundamental dimension. However, when we stack time loops onto each other, we would have to defacto view the situation we have created as 2-dimensional time, as an arithmetically possible way to reference each loop individually, to make our analysis possible. It’s simply information design and normalization, not that time is actually multidimensional.
Which means that people from the future would look different for each loop, which we might misconstrue as different races.
Also consider that people cannot physically travel faster than light as that would totally crush us regardless of what Star trek or Star wars purports is possible. It is not possible. And therefore our future would have to construct bodies (like the greys?) to carry and transport our presence and intellect, to act as remotely piloted drones back in time.
People use the word "consciousness", like as though in star trek, somehow some constraint magically presents itself to prevent commander Data from being replicated. There is no such thing as transporting your consciousness in time or space, but a projection of your presence over time and space, while actual consciousness of the pilot stay intact at his/her native time period. Technology would allow us to replicate our presence, but it would be totally ridiculous to get rid of the drone ‘s original copy, just to make sure one version exists.
In the future we would be able to travel "instantly" across large distances of the Universe as long as we had seeded those regions with proxy drone bodies.
What if there continued to have wars and conflicts? To prevent that might be the dominance of one super-power tribe to prevent people from killing each other. Where the dominant tribe maintain technological dominance by looping R&D back in time to effectively lengthen their R&D within a short period of time.
Time looping in the future would be considered the nuclear option, a technology which only responsible and Security Council core members are allowed to have it. There would be moratoria on its use as well as a treaty for non-proliferation of temporal adjustment. There would talks to resolve temporal adjustment disarmament.
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