Can someone travel through time? The short answer is yes, and you are doing it right now as you rocket one second at a time into the future.
According to Space, you are essentially always going through time at the same speed, whether you are watching paint dry or wishing you had more time to spend with a buddy who lives far away.
But this isn’t the kind of time travel that many science fiction writers have been captivated by, or that has generated a wide genre of science fiction (more than 400 movies are listed under the “Movies about Time Travel” category on Wikipedia).
Popular television episodes like as “Doctor Who,” “Star Trek,” and “Back to the Future” include characters who jump into a wild vehicle to rocket into the past or spin into the future. When parallel universes and various timelines are combined in time travel fiction, the protagonists are left wondering what would happen if they changed the past or present based on information from the future.
Many people are fascinated by the thought of changing history or seeing into the future before it’s too late, but no one has ever demonstrated how to travel through time in a way like to science fiction, nor has anybody offered a method for sending someone across important eras without endangering them in the process.
Science does, however, support some degree of time travel. For example, the theory of special relativity states that time is an illusion that moves in reference to an observer. An observer traveling near the speed of light will experience time and all of its aftereffects, including growing old and becoming bored, far more slowly than when they are at rest.
Because of this, during the course of a year in space, astronaut Scott Kelly aged ever so little less than his identical twin who stayed on Earth.
Every work of time-travel fiction creates its own unique interpretation of space-time, eschewing one or more scientific paradoxes and puzzles to serve the demands of the story.
Some honor science and science fiction, such as “Interstellar,” directed by Christopher Nolan in 2014. Matthew McConaughey plays a man who visits a planet around a gigantic black hole for a few hours in the movie. But to spectators on Earth, those hours seem like a matter of decades because of time dilation.
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