Time Travel
Time Travel…A Possibility?
From my previous paper on “What is Time?” I concluded that
time is broken down into past, present, and future. When looking at
each of these separately, they can be defined as:
Past: Gone by in time and no longer existing.
Present: The period of time now occurring; existing or occurring now.
Future: The time or a period of time following the moment of speaking
or writing; time regarded as still to come.
When taking the definitions of past, present and future into
consideration time travel is an impossibility, as there are rules needed
to travel time that break each and every definition.
If we were to travel backwards in time, we would be in the past.
But isn’t the past what ceased to exist? Traveling back in time would
be making the past our present, breaking its definition.
The future is defined as what is still to come. If we were to
travel forwards in time, our future would become our present. The
future is shaped by decisions made by people and events taking
place all over the world. If one or two people were to travel forwards
in time, it would be only them traveling forwards in time, meaning the
decisions that make up the future have not yet been made. Therefore
they would have to be traveling into a fiction of what is still to come,
not a reality.
When explained scientifically, time travel concentrates on
things such as quantum physics, Einstein’s theory of special relativity,
and the grandfather paradox.
Einstein’s theory of special relativity links between space and
time. It states that relative to a stationary...
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