• Question: do u think there will be a timemachine in the future?

    Asked by alpha1 to Helen, Mark, Martin, Stu on 22 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Mark Burnley

      Mark Burnley answered on 22 Jun 2011:

      Theoretically, sub-atomic particles can go backwards in time already, so you could argue time machines (particle accelerators) already exist. Fitting one in a Delorean or a Police Box and transporting people is proving difficult at present. It is very unlikely that anything other than sub-atomic particles will ever travel through time in any way other than the way you are now by spending time reading this.

    • Photo: Stuart Mourton

      Stuart Mourton answered on 22 Jun 2011:

      if i had tp put money on it. i’d say no, although it’s more likely than there being one in the past!!

    • Photo: Helen O'Connor

      Helen O'Connor answered on 22 Jun 2011:

      according to Professor Brian Cox (who works at CERN on the Hadron Collider)

      “travel into the indefinite future is absolutely possible. If you flew around space close to the speed of light for about four years you’d come back to Earth 40,000 years in the future. Amazingly, Einstein predicted it in 1905”

      But I can only take his word for it!!

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