Argumentative Essay About Time Travel

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Time travel has been drifting in the science-fiction category for millennia now, from Greek mythology to modern physics. Thinking about the fact that maybe one day humans can step inside a machine and press a button to arrive not somewhere, but somewhen is extraordinary, reinforced by the boundless amount of information from movies and novels such as Back to The Future and The Clay Lion. With all this information begs the essential question, is it possible? Many scientists have now reinvestigated time travel considering it to be non-fiction with all the theories that have come up over the century about time travel, on news articles or social media. If it is not clear, time travel is not an effortless task, it involves a understanding of quantum …show more content…

Einstein stated that when traveling at the speed of light, time stops and slows down nearing that speed. The speed of light is roughly 186282 miles per second. Going even slightly near that speed would prove to be extremely difficult but theoretically speaking, a remarkably fast spaceship could be built that carries passengers in space near the speed of light and come back to earth. The travelers would be younger depending on how much time was spent in space then compared to the people on earth, ultimately resulting in a journey to the future. Einstein also derived arguably the world's most famous equation E=mc2,created the theory of relativity where gravity bends time, or spacetime. Spacetime is commonly known as the fabric of the fourth dimension. To understand this process imagine spacetime as a blanket and according to Einstein's theory a giant mass in the universe like planets and suns can cause a bend in spacetime like a basketball. When the basketball is put onto the blanket it causes the blanket to curve due to gravity pulling the ball down.(Howell) In order to bend the fabric of spacetime an immense amount of gravitational force is required to achieve that goal. The only entities we know of and are proved to exist that meets that requirement are black holes. Black holes have one of the most powerful gravitational forces in the universe. If a spaceship were to move around a black hole "Around and around they'd go, experiencing just half the time of everyone far away from the black hole. The ship and its crew would be traveling through time," Stephen Hawking (Howell). If we manage to control and manipulate black holes to meet the perfect state, time travel might be possible, but only to the

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