When I was a kid my dad told me that there is really a time machine. He said that it is in a very secret place because the government doesn’t want it to be used. He added that when somebody will be caught using it, the police will get them. I know my dad was just making a story to stop my imagination about time travel. And yes, as a kid I was really afraid of the police. They use it to scare me whenever I act like a brat.
But that story didn’t stop me to imagine and wonder what if I can travel. When I was kid, I often dream about going to the future. In the future, I will be able to see how and what I’ve become and then I will go back and tell myself about what to do in the present so that my future will happen or not if it’s not what I want. In the contrary, I guess the thought of time travel when I was young was just about the adventure I could get out of it.
When I started my teenage years, the thought of travelling through time changed. During those years, I desperately wanted to turn back the time to change my mistakes. I thought about the decisions I made, actions I’ve done and words that I had spoken.
For example; during a math quiz bee when I failed to win the first prize because I didn’t follow my intuition of how to solve the tie-breaking problem; for eagerly answering the question of my teacher but then my answer was wrong, for helping my pregnant teacher with her heavy stuffs that caused me to fall in a canal and be seen by my schoolmates and my crush, when I failed to be a part of the Top 10 in class because my attention was already focused to my boyfriend (I started young..I know! But I thought I was mature); and the list goes on.
I wished to change those things. I thought I could have a better life if those things didn’t happen.
But I was wrong.
When I was still 17, I thought about going to the past and changing it but then as I was imagining I’ve noticed that each event in my life in the past has something to do to my present or other people’s present.
The things that occurred in my past molded my present. The things that I have done in the past which I once regret did something to somebody’s life.
I failed the math quiz bee before but somebody won and celebrated. I gave a wrong answer to my teacher but somebody was given the chance to answer it and received a point. I fell in the canal for helping my pregnant teacher but if I didn’t do it and fell for her maybe she’ll be the one who will fell and have a miscarriage. I failed to be in the top 10 but somebody else made it. I had a boyfriend very young but I learned something about responsibility and knowing your limitations.
As of these days when I start to imagine about time travel, I only get tired. I can’t do anything about my past and I don’t want to know my future because knowing it might cause me to alter it in my attempt to live “normally” knowing what will happen next.
The best thing to do is to live life in a good way so that your future will be good. Stop acting stupid, stop doing that things that you know is dangerous and value time. Time is a precious gift and our freedom to choose what we want to do in our life is our responsibility.
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Time Travel – Undo Your Past and See Your Future
Time Travel – A Possibility
Most of us have heard about a Time Machine at some point of time during our life. It has capabilities to go back to the past or travel faster than time straight into the future. We have also heard that this machine is more of an imagination of some great scientists and is too far away from being a reality. Time travel is possible only in stories and not in real life. Well, after reading this your perception is bound to change.
The most recognized work in this field has come form some of the greatest brains of all times – Albert Einstein and more recently from Stephen Hawkins. As many physicists put it, time traveling is traveling in the fourth dimension. Traveling in this dimension means one is covering distance in Time. It is like you might travel really fast from one point and after some time end the journey at the same point but you have traveled across a different time zone.
The key behind time travel is to understand the fact that like a river, time also flows with different pace at different places. One of the greatest helps in time travel comes from our GPS. The satellites in space are equipped with some of the most precise clocks ever built. But even then they gain around a third of a billionth of a second every day. This needs to be corrected regularly else the entire GPS system might crash. This simply shows that time travels faster in space then on earth. The main reason for this is the massive mass of earth which drags the time. The heavier the object the more it drags the time. This entire thought suggests that time does travel differently at different places and thus opens up the gates for time travel.
In our galaxy there is a huge black hole. Its mass is equal to the combined mass of four million suns crushed down into a single point by its own gravity. Not even light can escape from its immense gravitational force. This also drags the time and thus acts as a natural time machine. If we can make a fast moving vehicle to travel to that black hole and orbiting it then we can travel in fourth dimension of time. For people on earth the space ship would orbit once around the massive black hole in 16 minutes but for the people inside spaceship they would be doing so in 8 minutes. So if they return to earth after 10 years then actually 20 years would have passed and everyone on earth would has spent 10 more years then the crew.
Another possible method of traveling in time is to travel really fast. For this imagine a track made across the earth and a vehicle moves on it with a speed close to the speed of light. In this case the time for those on board would move really slow then for those outside. Like this if 100 years passes for outside world then for those on board would only be 7 days older. Thus they would have traveled about 100 years in just 7 days.
Time travel thus surely a possibility. It’s just that right now we might not have the correct technology with us to travel across time. But it would surely be possible in future. Watch out for time travelers.