The memorable phrase "diving into time" is used by Teillhard de Chardin in his book: The Vision of Time - 1966. He suggests that we can likely learn more from paying attention to time than we can from journeying into space.
I do not know if he is correct about space journey but I do know that we discover amazing new territory through the agents of geology and other scientific methods that enable us to view and analyze the traces of what has been in what is.
There is a remarkable refreshment of the mind in exploring the past. There are new horizons, new climates, and new creatures in the wonderland that comes into view.
In setting out to view the past we unexpectedly discover the future. What can be called a stream of time connects seamlessly the past and the future. In the philosophy presented by Tielhard, the light in which we travel converges toward the future.
Human interest in the future is one explanation for petroglyphs and other artistic creations that we today discover. Orientation toward the future would appear to be a characteristic basic to the human organism. In the words of Teilhard, the ruins, fossils, glyphs whisper to us an essential word regarding construction of the future.
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