Now, see, this could be one of those events I record in my journal that I take back with me when I time travel to the past. There is something familiar about this in my mind.
I have also given a lot of thought about how my excursion as a time traveler to the past date of 3 March 2003 is not my first journey and that I have made - will make - many excursions to the past and I take back information with me and I would struggle with how much information I should tell Tom Reagan each time we meet. As he is traveling forward naturally in time and I am travelling unconventionally backwards in time he has met me in the past and which is my future so he has information about what we talked about in his past but in my future relative to this present day. Another example is a recent series of thoughts about me time traveling back to the year 1985 and I materialized in the office of President Reagan as Tom Reagan was in there talking to him. I brought the DVD for the 1985 film "Back to the Future" and I wanted them to watch it. Tom didn't want to watch it and instead just wanted to take the time off to go home to his wife. President Reagan ordered me to not hold back on any information I had in my mind about future events and so I did not filter out any details that I might have not mentioned because I was concerned about some kind of effect on the natural course of events. As I thought about all that I decided that the natural course of events included me traveling back in time and talking with President Reagan about information I possess about the future relative to that day we talked.
Also, Tom and President Reagan were startled to see me appear and he called in security to the office and that was because, up to that point, and as would happen almost every time afterwards, Tom would only see me appear when his life was in danger and I was there to pull him into the alternate reality where he would be transported to another destination but that was beyond my control of determining where he would materialize.
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Betelgeuse
Betelgeuse, also known by its Bayer designation Alpha Orionis, is the eighth brightest star in the night sky and second brightest star in the constellation of Orion, outshining its neighbour Rigel (Beta Orionis) only rarely. Distinctly reddish-tinted, it is a semiregular variable star whose apparent magnitude varies between 0.2 and 1.2, the widest range of any first magnitude star. The star marks the upper right vertex of the Winter Triangle and center of the Winter Hexagon.
Classified as a red supergiant, Betelgeuse is one of the largest and most luminous stars known. If it were at the center of our Solar System, its surface would extend past the asteroid belt possibly to the orbit of Jupiter and beyond, wholly engulfing Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. However, with distance estimates in the last century that have ranged anywhere from 180 to 1,300 light years from Earth, calculating its diameter, luminosity and mass have proven difficult. Betelgeuse is currently thought to lie around 640 light years away, yielding a mean absolute magnitude of about −6.05.
In 1920, Alpha Ori was the first star (after the Sun) to have its angular diameter measured. Since then, researchers have used a number of telescopes to measure this stellar giant, each with different technical parameters, often yielding conflicting results. Current estimates of the star's diameter range from about .043 to .056 arcseconds, a moving target at best, as Betelgeuse appears to change shape periodically. Because of limb darkening, variability, and angular diameters that vary with wavelength, the star remains a perplexing mystery. To complicate matters further, Betelgeuse has a complex, asymmetric envelope caused by colossal mass loss involving huge plumes of gas being expelled from its surface. There is even evidence of stellar companions orbiting within this gaseous envelope, possibly contributing to the star's eccentric behavior.
Astronomers believe Betelgeuse is only 10 million years old, but has evolved rapidly because of its high mass. It is thought to be a runaway star from the Orion OB1 Association, which also includes the late type O and B stars in Orion's belt—Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka. Currently in a late stage of stellar evolution, Betelgeuse is expected to explode as a type II supernova, possibly within the next million years. Because Betelgeuse is between 497 and 789 lightyears away from Earth, Betelgeuse may have already become a supernova centuries ago; if so, the light is still in transit. Recently, some claims about an alleged explosion of betelgeuse in 2012 appeared on the media, but they turned out unsound
