Monday, March 28, 2011

The Basics of Time Traveling

I was reviewing some of the notes for our upcoming test this weekend and upon researching Time Traveling a little more I found an interesting site (http://www.lifesci.sussex.ac.uk/home/John_Gribbin/timetrav.htm) which contained a time travelers guide for beginners so to say. Some higlights:

  • Exactly one hundred years ago, in 1895, H. G. Wells classic story The Time Machine....a good quotation from the novel "there is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space, except that our consciousness moves along it"
  • Many believe that it was actually through Science Fiction that the study of time travel by scientists was started. The author Carl Sagan wanted his novel to be as scientifically accurate as possible, so he asked Kip Thorne (an expert in gravitational theory) to check the novel out. Thorne realised that a wormhole through spacetime actually could exist as a stable entity within the framework of Einstein's theory.
  • Price reasons why the things we do in the present do not seem to have altered the past is that the past has already taken account of what we are doing! If we decide to do something different, the past already knows......(creepy eh?)
  • Although gravity still tries to slam shut the door of a wormhole opening to other universes, the electric field, or rotation, holds the door open for travellers to get through ---> this has lead to a new field of study Wormhole Engineering


Also if you're looking for some good time travel movies, I would give this site a go....It has the top 10 best time travel movies along with their trailers
http://www.toptenz.net/top-ten-time-travel-movies.php

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