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Is Time Travel Possible?
The problem is if you mess up big time, would you ever be allowed to go back and change it? If you do not like the future you might see, will you be able to change it? These are questions that geniuses like Einstein and Hawking asked themselves. If I were able to see the future, it would change my life forever. By going through wormholes, we might be able to see ourselves in the past as traveled through time. Wormholes are tiny spots in space where gravity is so powerful, it rips apart the space-time continuum. Wormholes can be as large as a molecule, and smaller than an atom. Time is different where there is different gravity. Theoretically, if you travel through space at or near light speed (186,000 miles per second) for any amount of time and survived the trip, time outside the ship would go 100 times faster than you would. You could travel through time and see the future. Unfortunately, we cannot go near the speed of light. We would not be able to gather that much power and traveling at the speed of light would give your ship infinite mass, forcing it to collapse upon itself instantly. It would colapse because it would have an infinite mass, which means the gravitational pull would make it implode. The only thing powerful enough would be a theoretic molecule called “Dark Matter”. This dark matter has never been created in isolated labs. Dark matter, when it touches regular matter, makes a boom at least 100 times more powerful than any atomic bomb. An ounce of dark matter could level New York City. With just enough dark matter, we would be able to propel a spaceship near light speed without vaporizing it instantly. That is one way we could travel into the future. Now, for traveling into the past. There is only one valid way, and that is to travel through a super massive black hole. We would have to go straight through the heart of the black hole into the wormhole at the center. We could use dark energy (anti gravitational) to hold the wormhole open while we fly through. We would then be transported into the past. The problem is if you do that, you would interact with life and/or organic matter. That would then affect the future somehow. This would create a paradox in which the time machine creator would never create the time machine and then, who would have changed the future? This is the main problem with time machines. You could go back hundreds of years and talk to people. However, you cannot, because as soon as they see you, the present would be changed and you would not be born. Everything would be changed so slightly that it adds up over time. Here is a story to expalin it to people that don't understand the concept. A mad scientist somehow goes back in time one minute, to see himself. His future self then picks up a gun and shoots his past self. His past self dies right then. If that ever happens, this creates a paradox. The future him will disappear, as he died in the past. Who then pulled the trigger? He couldn’t have, as he died and couldn’t travel into the past to fire the shot. This is a paradox, which every theoretical scientist has nightmares about. It is so confusing that one could spend lifetime thinking about it and get absolutely nowhere. A weak-minded person (Kelsey and/or Gray) could drive themselves insane thinking of that. It is very confusing.
This was a student's post in my class. A complete smart-ass, he is, but I do admit he's smart. But insane. |3;;
--Lonely's post of the random.