It's About Time!

Time travel, what a fascinating idea! Imagine yourself jumping into a time machine that enables you to visit both the past and the future. Perhaps you would want to visit your great-grandparents and see how similar you are to them; perhaps you would want to go back to the year 1939 and see how World War II was fought; maybe you would like to go to the future and talk to your future generations; or possibly you would just want to travel to tomorrow and see what it will be like. Time travel has been a great science fiction theme for all time, yet the possibility of time travel in real life has always been a highly debatable topic. Paul Davies states that ¡§so far, the loophole in the known laws of physics that permits time travel is very minute¡¨ (Davies, About Time 280). In addition, many of the paradoxes provide logical explanations about how time travel is an impossible task. However, Einstein¡¦s theory of Special Relativity opens up a new door by showing that time is relative. ...