• Question: Is Time travel possible? Both into the future and back into the past?

    Asked by emma4963 to Clare, Divya, Ian, Jess, Lewis on 8 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by zambiekittehcatt.
    • Photo: Lewis Dean

      Lewis Dean answered on 8 Mar 2014:

      I’m not a physicist, so I don’t really know the answer to this! From what I have heard it some people think that it just might be possible, but it won’t happen for a very long time.

    • Photo: Ian Hands-Portman

      Ian Hands-Portman answered on 8 Mar 2014:

      We already know that a clock in orbit on a satellite goes slower than one on earth so we know it’s possible to go forwards in time but as for getting back, I don’t think we’ll ever find a way to change or visit the past – but it would be really cool, I want my pet dinosaur!

    • Photo: Jess Smith

      Jess Smith answered on 10 Mar 2014:

      I don’t do physics either, but I don’t think we will be able to go back in time in the way that films portray it. Just because we would probably have seen evidence of people coming back in time already? I don’t know though!

    • Photo: Divya Venkatesh

      Divya Venkatesh answered on 10 Mar 2014:

      No idea! But it’s pretty fun in novels and films. Try ‘A wrinkle in time’ by Madeleine L’Engle if you’re interested in this kind of stuff: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wrinkle-Time-Puffin-Modern-Classics/dp/0140372318/ref=tag_stp_s2_edpp_url

      Also, every once in a while we’ll have someone say that time as we think about it, is an illusion – it’s interesting to think about but makes my head hurt.

    • Photo: Clare Nevin

      Clare Nevin answered on 13 Mar 2014:

      If you can somehow get to watch Brian Cox’s BBC lecture called The Science Of Doctor Who, he gives a great explanation on the possibility of time travel!

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