• Question: do you think creating a time paradox is possible

    Asked by uneedsomemilk to Freddie, Jena, Kirsten, Kon, Zarah on 4 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Jennifer Bates

      Jennifer Bates answered on 4 Nov 2016:

      I don’t know about time paradoxes, because it would be terrifying to loop round and round for a single moment in time or completely alter the course of history like in the Doctor Who episode ‘The Wedding of River Song’.

      It would be awesome to have a TARDIS though, because then I could go back and have a sneaky peak at all the archaeological sites I’ve been working on, check that I’m getting it right.

      I think I’d go back to a site called Must Farm about 3000 years ago just outside modern Peterborough. It was a Bronze Age settlement on the edge of a river that burnt down very shortly after being made, and I’d like to know why.
      …although perhaps I do go back in time soon and maybe I cause the fire…oh dear, this time travel/paradox thing is looking more and more dangerous. I think I’ll leave that to the guys in the Polonium and Energy Zones!

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