• Question: do you hate time travel

    Asked by anon-233134 to Varun, Sammie, Rebecca, Anna, Alin, Adam on 12 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Rebecca Shaw

      Rebecca Shaw answered on 12 Nov 2019:

      No! I think time travel would be super cool. I would love to time travel back to the start of the 20th century – maybe the 1920s when our earth was a little healthier and we had more biodiversity! I would go explore the jungles and the African plains!

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      Samantha Firth answered on 12 Nov 2019:

      No – time travel would be neat! You could go back to all the famous moments in history and find out what really happened 🤔 You could be like ‘hey man, I fancy trying some ancient Egyptian cuisine, brb’

    • Photo: Varun Ramaswamy

      Varun Ramaswamy answered on 12 Nov 2019:

      Nope, I absolutely love the idea and enjoy thinking a lot about how it would feel. For instance, did you know that the galaxies all move forward by a few 100 kilometres every year? So if we travelled back in time to our current physical location, we would land up in empty space because the earth still hasn’t reached where we are right now!

      I love having these thought experiments and discussions with my mates about time travel and cannot wait till we can do it! Thankfully, scientists have already shown that tiny particles called neutrinos can in fact, travel through time.

    • Photo: Anna Kalorkoti

      Anna Kalorkoti answered on 18 Nov 2019:

      I don’t hate it, but I find it difficult to get my brain around the idea of it! Imagine travelling back in time and accidentally erasing yourself from history because you stopped your parents from ever meeting each other. But if they never met each other, you were never there to travel back in time and stop them meeting each other… it can get very confusing very quickly! I don’t think I’d want to travel back in time because I’d be too afraid of messing up the future in some way.

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