Slipstream Time Hacking: How to Cheat Time, Live More, And Enhance Happiness

by Benjamin P. Hardy

On my friend’s current trajectory, he will likely arrive in Hawaii around 15 years from now—after spending countless hours at work punching the time clock. Inching forward. Now of course, Hawaii is not my friend’s only goal. But much of these 15 years will be spent thinking about and wishing he was in Hawaii. What if he could fold that time in half and get to Hawaii in 7.5 years? Or what if he could leap through a wormhole and get there in a month? If he were to fold time and get there in 7.5 years, he would have successfully skipped, or saved, 7.5 years of waiting. Put another way, he would have gone 7.5 years into his own future, freeing up the time he would have spent dreaming of Hawaii to pursue other goals. Furthermore, if he were to arrive in Hawaii in a month, he would have saved 14.9 years of waiting. By covering the needed distance faster, he gained 14.9 years of extra time he would not have had on his original trajectory. Having jumped into his future, he now has all that bonus time to continue progressing well beyond where he originally intended. By jumping through time, time slowed. Although the experience of time felt similar to his past, the month of preparation was actually a stretching of time. To explain this, we need to step back further and explore the theory of time relativity.