Time Travel: A Journey to the Fourth Dimension

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The possibility of time travel has fascinated mankind for ages. We are all familiar with the concept of the time
machine, from H.G. Wells to current sci-fi writers, and there are physicists who say we cannot rule out time
travel.

Even though time travel is generally associated with science fiction, physicists know that time travel is a
serious prediction of Einstein’s general relativity equations
One way to visit the past or the future is to use wormholes which serve as a time portals between past present
and future.

Your world has four dimensions. Three dimensions are space; time is the fourth.
The Time Traveler in Wells’ classic 1895 novel The Time Machine explains it simply enough, “There is no
difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space, except that our consciousness moves along
it”.

According to Stephen Hawking, “time travel movies often feature a vast, energy-hungry machine.
The machine creates a path through the fourth dimension, a tunnel through time.
A time traveler, a brave, perhaps foolhardy individual, prepared for who knows what, steps into the time tunnel
and emerges who knows when.
The concept may be far-fetched, and the reality may be very different from this, but the idea itself is not so
crazy.”

The laws of physics actually accommodate the notion of time travel, through portals known as wormholes.
According to Stephen Hawking “wormholes are all around us, only they’re too small to see. They occur in
nooks and crannies in space and time.

Nothing is flat or solid. If you look closely enough at anything you’ll find holes and wrinkles in it. It’s a basic
physical principle, and it even applies to time. Even something as smooth as a pool ball has tiny crevices,
wrinkles and voids.”
Dr, Michio Kaku explained that a wormhole is a subway trip trough space and time. It was Einstein himself
who in 1935 that first proposed the possibility of wormholes and we find that Einsteins equations are littered
with wormholes. Wormholes to the future, wormholes to the past”
The idea of a wormhole is that you come into the wormhole from within our Universe and temporarily exit our
space-time continuum and return again to our space-time continuum at some other space location at some other
time location, astrophysicist Charles Liu explained.

Time is a dimension, but it’s so unusual in that sense that we can only move forward in it as long as we are in
our Universe.
Furthermore, if there were a theory of everything, one could solve all of Einstein’s equations through a
wormhole, and see whether time travel is really possible, Kaku says.
“But that would require a technology far more advanced than anything we can muster,” he said. “Don’t expect
any young inventor to announce tomorrow in a press release that he or she has invented a time machine in their
basement.”

For now, the only definitive part of travel in the fourth dimension is that we’re stepping further into the future
with each passing moment. So for those hoping to see Earth a million years from now, scientists have good
news.

Brian Greene, a consultant for “Déjà Vu,” a recent movie that dealt with time travel, said that “If you want to
know what the Earth is like one million years from now, I’ll tell you how to do that,”.

“Build a spaceship. Go near the speed of light for a length of time-that I could calculate. Come back to Earth,
and when you step out of your ship you will have aged perhaps one year while the Earth would have aged one
million years. You would have traveled to Earth’s future.”

So, how does Dr. Who time travel, we wonder…

“Dr. Who has a technology centuries maybe millennium more advanced than ours. In which case going right
up at the speeds of light is child’s play. When that happens time slows down inside your rocket ship. So if you
want to go to a nearby star for example, it takes four years for a light beam to reach that star, but in his
TARDIS it may take four seconds,” Dr. Kaku says.
Moreover, Jim Al Khalili, theoretical physicist says “In the opening sequence of Dr. Who, you see the
TARDIS tumbling through a tunnel. To my mind that tunnel could represent a wormhole,”

“Build a spaceship. Go near the speed of light for a length of time-that I could calculate. Come back to Earth,
and when you step out of your ship you will have aged perhaps one year while the Earth would have aged one
million years. You would have traveled to Earth’s future.”

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