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Traveling Through Time

Could we surf forward and backward through the waves of time?

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Traveling Through Time
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Anytime the subject regarding time travel comes up, I’m all ears. The thought of going back in time to see my childhood pet again is always a fascinating subject to ponder. Maybe it wouldn’t work out like we think but still, there’s the possibility. Since hearing about time travel as a child, I have always believed it was plausible, even into adulthood. There are even a few famous physicists who believe time travel is possible. Albert Einstein had not believed in time travel until a mathematician, Kurt Goedel, had found a new solution to Einstein’s equations. This solution allowed for time travel! Wow! I could go back through time to see amazing events live! A new place to vacation. Anyway, the ‘river of time’ was now known to be equipped with whirlpools, that would allow for time travel. Time could wrap itself into a circle.

Since Kurt Goedel had discovered solutions for time travel, currently in our time more solutions have been found that allow for wormholes. These wormholes would could connect more than two regions of space. But when we go back in time, according to Dr. Michio Kaku, and alter something we are splitting our time line, or river of time, and having it branch of into another direction becoming an alternate universe. While there is much proof that we can travel through time, it may not be as simple as jumpin’ in a Delorian, going 88 miles per hour(I think that’s what it was) and going into the future. One person had once said, I forget who, that time travel is possible but we would need to harness the power of the sun in order to do it. Well, Dr. Michio Kaku said we do need a lot of energy, but it may not be quite that much. We would say the energy from a star rather than the sun. I didn’t think we needed quite that much either.

But there is another think that would make time travel difficult: Stability. There are theories out there that suggest the quantum effects may build up and destroy the wormhole before you are able to step through it. So I guess that would mean you must find a way to get through that issue, but once you do I think you are almost good to go. It is also interesting to note that Stephen Hawking once opposed the idea of time travel saying “If time travel existed, then we would see visitors from the future.” This would mean there is no such thing right? Well, he did eventually change his mind after the enormous work done by theoretical physicists within the last five years or so. He thinks, now, that time travel is possible but not necessarily practical.

Hawking may just be right. Dr. Michio Kaku says that we may not be interesting to visitors to the future, and that anyone who can harness the power of a star would think of us nothing more than primitive creatures. But think of this question: If there are visitors from the future, does that mean I am the past? But in the present? How could there be visitors from the future if we haven’t gotten there yet? Either way, lets hope we get there, because I really would like to vacation in the future. So come on kids lets get educated! And remember that math is fun!

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