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Essay / Discussion on The Truth About Time Travel
Time travel is often defined or viewed as a malleable concept that can be changed. Some believe that time travel is a scientific phenomenon that occurred in the past. Some also believe that time travel has not happened, but is a completely possible and universal concept. Others believe that one cannot engage or interact with a time before or after the current year. Despite their personal stance on the topic of time travel, they cannot deny the fascinating aspects of the possibility of time being a metaphorical hopscotch game. “Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. If you can bend space, you can also bend time, and if you knew enough and could move faster than light, you could travel through time and exist in two places at once. » – Margaret Atwood, Cats Eye. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Should Not Be Banned"?Get the original essayIn 1945, Robert Victor Goddard (an air officer) had an interesting experience aboard his Hawker Hart biplane. While leaving Scotland for his home in Andover, England, he decided to fly over an abandoned airfield in Drem, a place not far from Edinburgh, Scotland. This airfield was full of broken down planes and animals were beginning to graze where old planes had once been parked. After flying over the abandoned field, Goddard encountered a storm. He then lost control of his plane and began heading toward the ground. As he began to get closer and closer to the ground, he noticed his plane falling towards Drem. As he got closer, the storm stopped and disappeared. Goddard was now flying in sunny and beautiful weather. When he began to look around, he realized that the dilapidated airfield he had once passed seemed to now be home to four brand-new parked planes. Three of them were painted yellow, but the fourth plane was a monoplane. This plane was not there in 1935, which was its current year. Observing this carefully, he was also surprised to see that the mechanics working in the field were dressed in blue uniforms. In Goddard's time, all RAF mechanics wore brown uniforms. These mechanics also didn't seem to notice that Goddard's plane was flying overhead. When he left the area, he rode out the storm, but this time he managed to reach Andover. Another example is that of a couple in 1979 who were traveling in Spain and looking for a place to spend the night. They met some men who told them there was a hotel down the street where they could stay. When they approached the old building, the only name outside was "Hotel." When they went in to check in, they noticed that everything was made of old wood and there was no telephone. When they went to their room, they discovered that it had no lock, just wooden latches to hold the door closed. Oddly enough, there were only wooden shutters and no glass windows. The next morning, while having breakfast after their stay, they crossed paths with two police officers wearing what appeared to be old police uniforms with caps, police officers stopped wearing them in 1905. The couple didn't think about it and continued his journey. After spending some time on vacation in Spain, they thought that when they returned home, they would stay in the same hotel because it was cheap. But this time he was nowhere to be found. The hotel had completely disappeared.There was no evidence that this existed in their time. It is believed that the couple must have somehow traveled back in time to the establishment of this hotel. Additionally, in 1932, J. Bernard Hutton and his photographer Joachim Brandt were invited to research a shipyard in Hamburg-Altona (Germany) for their municipal newspaper. They arrived at the shipyard and were visited by a shipyard official. After gathering the information they needed for their story, they began walking towards their car to leave, on the way to their car they heard the drone of a plane overhead. Thinking it was a drill, none of them paid attention until the bombs started exploding and everything around them went dark. They then noticed that they were in fact involved in an air raid and fortunately, being close to their car, they quickly drove away from the shipyard. As they left, they noticed that the sky had returned to its normal appearance before this air raid. Not knowing how this was possible, they turned back to the shipyard to see the destruction they had barely survived; Hutton and Brandt found that the shipyards were entirely intact and had suffered no destruction from the explosions. There was also no trace of the planes that had been there minutes before. As there was no evidence of the incident, the two men kept the story to themselves, until eleven years later when the British Royal Air Force attacked the same shipyards on approximately the same day and at the same time. Brandt, before fleeing Hamburg-Altona during the bombings, took photos during the incident in hopes of being able to use them in his story. He then tried to develop the images, but there was no trace of the bombs or the planes. Since there was no evidence of the destruction of the shipyard, the journalist and photographer could not prove that it had actually happened, but that they had to travel to the future. Scientific research has shown several possible ways of traveling through time. One possibility is to travel faster than the speed of light, light travels at 186,282 miles per second. Einstein calculated equations that show that an object at the speed of light should have infinite mass and zero length. This seems physically impossible for a human to endure. Although other scientists have expanded his equations and concluded that this could very well happen if the circumstances were right. NASA has also considered creating “wormholes” (a theoretical passage that would create shortcuts through the universe) between space and time. Although Einstein's equations prove that this is possible; The wormhole would most likely collapse quickly and would only be usable for small particles. There was another man, Frank Tipler (an astronomer), he had a theory that if you took an object 10 times bigger than the mass of the sun and rolled it into a long, dense cylinder. After spinning the object very quickly, a nearby spacecraft could then follow the cylinder, then possibly put itself on a time-like curve. Scientists say cosmic strings also make this theory possible. Cosmic pinholes are tubes of energy extending throughout the universe. These regions, which are remnants of the early cosmos, are expected to contain large amounts of mass and could possibly distort the areas around them. Cosmic stings are infinite, connecting two strings side by side would bend spacetime if..