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This is a place for everything time and space-related. Lifestyle, histories, possible futures, travel, food and everything in between. A place for those who dare to live and dream in more than one era. A place for those who are happy to bounce around the past, present and future.
Your transport maybe more Train than the TARDIS and your new Victorian outfit doesn’t fit your brand new smartphone, but that shouldn’t stop you adventuring like a true Time Traveller. All you need is an imagination, a desire to explore and a thirst for knowledge.
“People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
– Albert Einstein.
Time Travel Basics
From H.G. Wells to Professor Stephen Hawking, the idea of Time Travel has been a persistent obsession for many scientists, artists, writers and dreamers for centuries. Driving some to understand how the universe works, while others are driven to uncovering the past and others to create the future.
“That is the germ of my great discovery. But you are wrong to say that we cannot move about in Time. For instance, if I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence: I become absent-minded, as you say. I jump back for a moment. Of
H.G. Wells, The Time Machinecourse we have no means of staying back for any length of Time, any more than a savage or an animal has of staying six feet above the ground. But a civilized man is better off than the savage in this respect. He can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time-Dimension, or even turn about and travel the other way?”
Travelling forward in time is relatively easy if you follow Einstein’s theory of relativity. It states that time passes at different rates for people moving relative to one another. However, the effects of these rates only become larger the closer to the speed of light you get.
There are a few problems with travelling forward in time – the biggest being attempting to travel back to your own time. In order to achieve that one would have to travel faster than light via some sort of natural or artifical wormhole and at the moment that is currently not possible.
Beware of Paradoxes
The Grandfather Paradox
The Grandfather Paradox is the thought experiment that by travelling backwards in time and interacting with the past could cause changes that alter your known timeline. The main example which gives the paradox its name is that if a person travels back in time and kills their own Grandfather (either deliberately or accidentally) before their own father has been conceived which would, therefore, prevent one’s own birth.
Twin Paradox
The Twin Paradox is the thought experiment based on Einstein’s theory of relativity. If one identical twin travels at some degree of the speed of light away from Earth then returns, they would find themselves younger than their twin sibling.
