Time Travel

Time Travel

Is time travel real? Some of you would obviously say no, but depending on whether it's the past or the future you want to go to, time travel might actually be possible.

First let's talk about time travel to the future. Time travel to the future is proven possible with time dilation. You might be wondering what time dilation is. Well, time dilation is a phenomenon from Einstein relativity where time passes at different rates for observers in relative motion or different gravitational fields. Not only does this prove that time travel might be possible but there are also real world examples too. GPS satellites experience time faster and slower than earth, proving time dilation is real. You might ask how this can be, and I'll tell you. Travelling near the speed of light would drastically slow your time,allowing you to return to Earth centuries later just like time travel. 

Now let's talk about time travel to the past. While there are speculations about time travel to the past rather than the future, there are more reasons about time travel to the past that show it might be possible. The first reason is that Einstein's theory allows for closed timelike terms also known as CTCs, paths through spacetime that loops back on themselves, that might allow them to travel to the past. Also, in 1974 a physicist named Frank Tipler said that if you took a massive, dense object, about 10 times the mass of the Sun, and rolled it into an infinitely long, spinning cylinder, it would warp spacetime so severely that a ship spiraling around it could travel back in time. Now that's not all, there are also things called cosmic strings. These are hypothetical "cracks" in the universe left over from the Big Bang Theory. They are thinner than an atom but carry the weight of entire mountain ranges in every inch. If two of these strings passed each other at near-light speeds, they could warp spacetime enough to create a shortcut to the past. Another reason is wormholes. A physicist named Kip Thorne suggested that if we could use a wormhole using "exotic matter" (matter with negative energy), it could act as a bridge between two different points in time. Well, this is a problem with time travel to the past. If you traveled to the past and went to kill your grandfather as a kid, that is a problem. This is because if you killed your grandpa then you would not have been born, but if you were not born then you didn't kill your grandpa, but if your grandpa was alive then you would have been born and able to kill your grandpa. It's a loop known as the grandpa paradox. The Philadelphia Experiment is a particular experiment that happened on October 28 1943 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during Wll. The Navy was starting to experiment in order to make a ship invisible to enemy radars using very powerful electromagnetic fields. They used a ship called the USS Eldridge. They experimented on this ship while people were still in it. When they started, the results were not what they were expecting. The ship's massive generators started to hum with great power. A creepy greenish-blue fog started to appear when all of a sudden the USS Eldridge disappeared. A few seconds later the ship was reportedly found 200 miles away in Virginia for a couple of minutes then vanishes again and appears back where it was originally, leaving the crew with weird symptoms of incurable illnesses, madness, burns, paralyzation, and even some people were infused in the ship leaving body parts sticking out of the ship. Now you might say this has nothing to do with time travel but it actually does. Apparently the ship teleported through time, experiencing temporal displacement, and even travelled decades in the future. So did the USS Eldridge really travel through a worm hole? The Navy still denies that there is more evidence that it could be real but The Philadelphia experiment didn't stop in 1943. In 1970-1980 a new project was born, the Montauk project. This project was based on Nikola Tesla, a Serbian-American inventor, physicist, and futurist. At Camp Hero, Long Island, scientists allegedly succeeded in opening "time portals". This served as a major inspiration for the most popular show on Netflix, “Stranger Things”. You might be like, “This is crazy how this project connected to my favorite show?” Well, let me tell you how. Stranger Things was originally called Montauk before evolving into its current form, directly referencing the Montauk project. The show's narrative of children like Eleven with psychic powers and dangerous government tests, references the Montauk Project legends. The abandoned military base in Stranger Things, Hawkins Lab, tells about Camp Hero in Montauk which is a supposed site of these experiments. Both involve portals, interdimensional travel,The Upside Down, and psychic phenomena all inspired by alleged Montauk events. While Stranger Things borrows ideas from these conspiracy theories, the Montauk Project itself remains an unverified claim and an urban legend. So, what do you think? You decide if time travel is real or not.

Written By: Jacob Lopez

Edited By: Kairi Tang