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Reaction Paper: Naked Science-Time Machine
Time
travelling, which is known to involve warping time, is one of the famous
science fiction of all times. It has always been a wonder to us and so has
caught our interest. Travelling through time, forward and backwards: how cool
is that, right? Most of us probably want to travel through time to explore, to
correct things, to avoid things, or maybe to have a better “future”.
In the
Naked Science’s episode, Time Machine, physicists claim that time travelling is
possible. Stephen Hawking and Michio Kaku presented different theories about
time travelling and on making a time machine, a device that would make time
travelling a science fiction no more.
One of
the theories that caught me the most was the one with parallel universe. First,
because this is not the first time I’ve thought about it and not the first time
I’ve encountered it. I have watched and read anime with parallel universe in their
general plots. I have also wondered about it after I’ve watched the movie Mr.
Nobody. In this movie, an infinity of possibilities rise from the protagonist’s
decision and as long as he doesn’t choose, anything is possible.
Parallel
universe is the hypothetical or fictional self-contained separate reality
coexisting with one's own. It is a set of possible universes that together
compromise everything that exist and can exist: time, space, matter, etc. This
is actually interesting. Even though, still not proven and I still can’t
imagine how one would prove it, it might actually be true or possible.
Time
travelling may be possible, but we still don’t know the consequences of warping
time. What would it really take to make
a time machine? And what would it take to travel through time or what would
happen after going to the past or even future? Would we be able to change the
past, present, and future? The idea of parallel universe may also solve this
but of course, there will be a hand full of ethical arguments.
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