We really did not have any work today. Everyone was slacking around, looking at weather predictions, talking about gas prices, amount of snow fall in South Dakota this year. So, having free time today I thought of reading little about Time Travel. Time Travel is such a Great idea for a Fiction but is it a scientific possibility? I am by no means qualified to analyze this. I do not understand the current physics how can I be able to analyze something that goes far beyond it?
The scientific world is so polarized in this issue that it just confuses me more. Stephen Hawking once said if time travel is possible where are the alien tourists from different time travelling earth and taking pictures around? Michio Kaka says perhaps we are not very interesting to these tourists from future. Are we worth a damn to these tourists? May be we are just too arrogant to think as technologically advanced and hope the tourist to visit us.
Well, there have been endless debates on this and we cannot really hope to get it resolved in near future. But history has taught us over and over again to be really careful to completely dismiss scientific ideas.
Here are few examples:
"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." (Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895)
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." (Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943)
"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home." (Ken Olsen, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977)
"The telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." (Western Union internal memo, 1876)
"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." (Marshal Ferdinand Foch, French commander of Allied forces during the closing months of World War I, 1918)
"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" (David Sarnoff's associates, in response to his urgings for investment in radio in the 1920's)
"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools." (New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work, 1921)
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" (Harry M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927)
"Everything that can be invented has been invented." (Charles H. Duell, commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899)
Sources for Quotes: Time: A Traveler's Guide, by Clifford A. Pickover
7 comments:
Great post
humm...may be science is nurtured by this way...see impossibility in every possibility and possibility in ever impossibility
Nice post Saurav! There is a depth of your thinking and the illustrations u presented.
I just believe that Science is far beyond our imagination....
We are, in fact, just on the surface of it...we still can not define it..
Exam week bonanza.....
Interesting! We can't predict future and that is the beauty of it.
Those quotations were very interesting too.
Time Travel...how interesting it is to know how our mind wanders...nevertheless, I personally think it is inconceivable in today’s perspective. Life doesn’t only always exist with numbers and logic...
Time exist only because God says that time exist. He has said that He can "restore the years that the locus have eaten". Remember that our closest link to time travel is a relationship with the creator of time. Some times the future comes to us in visions and dreams about the future but I have not heard anything about us as man by our own strength achieving forward movement in time.
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