Time travel

MATI- We define time travel as the departure from a certain place and time followed by
arrival at the same place but at a different point in time. You are constantly travelling
forward in time at a rate of 1 hour per hour. But the question is can we travel in time
faster or slower?
THOMAS- First, we have to define what time is. While most people think of time as a
constant, physicist Albert Einstein showed that time is an illusion; it is relative. To
Einstein, time is the "fourth dimension." He developed a theory called Special
Relativity that says that the laws of physics are the same for all non-accelerating
observers, and he showed that the speed of light within a vacuum is the same no
matter the speed at which an observer travels. As a result, he found that space and
time were interwoven into a single continuum known as space-time. Events that occur
at the same time for one observer could occur at different times for another. It also says
that a surprising thing happens when you move through space-time, especially when
your speed relative to other objects is close to the speed of light. Time goes slower for
you than for the people you left behind. You won't notice this effect until you return to
those stationary people.
For example: Say you were 15 years old when you left Earth in a spacecraft traveling
at about 99.5% of the speed of light (which is much faster than we can achieve now),
and celebrated only five birthdays during your space voyage. When you get home at
the age of 20, you would find that all your classmates were 65 years old, retired, and
enjoying their grandchildren! MATI - Because time passed more slowly for you, you will
have experienced only five years of life, while your classmates will have experienced a
full 50 years. So, if your journey began in 2003, it would have taken you only 5 years to
travel to the year 2053, whereas it would have taken all of your friends 50 years. In a
sense, this means you have been time traveling. This is a way of going to the future at
a rate faster than 1 hour per hour.
MATI- Einstein also published another theory called general relativity. In it, he
determined that massive objects cause a distortion in space-time, which is felt as
gravity. It predicts that time passes more slowly for objects in gravitational fields (like
here on earth) than for objects far from such fields. So there are all kinds of space and
time distortions near black holes, where the gravity can be very intense.
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TIME TRAVEL PARADOXES

One stubborn problem with time travel is that it is riddled with several types of
paradoxes. If one were able to go back in time, paradoxes could ensue
(result/consequence) if the time traveler were to change things.
MATI - There is the paradox of the man who his own mother Jane is left at an
orphanage as a foundling. When Jane is a teenager, she falls in love with a drifter,

who abandons her but leaves her pregnant. Then disaster strikes. She almost dies
giving birth to a baby girl, who is then mysteriously kidnapped. The doctors find that
Jane is bleeding badly, but, oddly enough, has both sex organs. So, to save her life,
the doctors convert Jane to Jim.
Jim subsequently becomes a roaring drunk, until he meets a friendly bartender
(actually a time traveler in disguise) who wisks Jim back way into the past. Jim
meets a beautiful teenage girl, accidentally gets her pregnant with a baby girl. Out of
guilt, he kidnaps the baby girl and drops her off at the orphanage. Later, Jim joins the
time travelers corps, leads a distinguished life, and has one last dream: to disguise
himself as a bartender to meet a certain drunk named Jim in the past. Question: who
is Janes mother, father, brother, sister, grand- father, grandmother, and grandchild?
ANOTHER PARADOX BY THOMAS
MATI - Interestingly enough, Stephen Hawking once opposed the idea of time travel.
He even claimed he had empirical evidence against it. If time travel existed, he said,
then we would have been visited by tourists from the future. Since we see no tourists
from the future, ergo: time travel is not possible. Because of the enormous amount of
work done by theoretical physicists within the last 5 years or so, Hawking has since
changed his mind, and now believes that time travel is possible (although not
necessarily practical).
THOMAS - In conclusion, dont turn someone away who knocks at your door one day
and claims to be your future great-great-great grandchild. They may be right.