• Question: do you think that time travel and that sort of thing is at all possible??

    Asked by poppxx to Mike, Pip, Tianfu, Tim, Tom on 26 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Tom Lister

      Tom Lister answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      Actually, I don’t. How boring…. Should never rule it out though, just have to think of a way of doing it…

    • Photo: Philippa Bird

      Philippa Bird answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      Me neither, sorry. You would only ever be able to go back to the time when you first made the receiver that could do it. So I suppose you would know you had succeeded when you built the receiver and people started appearing out of it!
      But we’ll never get back to Shakespearean or Dinosaur times, sorry!

    • Photo: Tim Stephens

      Tim Stephens answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      I don’t, although Einstein’s theory of special relativity says that when you’re moving fast (at almost the speed of light) time on stationary clocks that you pass appears to move more quickly than it does for you, so you can go for a high-speed race around the galaxy for a few hours, but weeks or months may have passed on earth whilst you were away. Freaky, huh?

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