Maybe its just the Recipe thread, but you are starting to sound like a large disembodied 15 meter long alimentary canal with big eyes slowly swimming tropical rivers of red wine, unless you are a chef.

I'll settle for Gaia as a virtual time machine. A real time machine would never find a fixed target in an ever moving universe unless there is mirror time reverse universe created at the big bang and invisible to us like dark matter that you could break into and navigate.