Humans on a mass scale have been fascinated with time travel since the industrial revolution.
Something about the moving backward and forward through time has fascinated us, but so far
as we know, Time Travel is the stuff of fiction best experienced in movies like Back to the
Future.
Some think Time Travel will one day be possible, but if so, why haven’t we come across any
evidence of it?
Hello and welcome back to Life’s Biggest Questions, the channel that likes to answer
a breadth if questions on topics like history, politics, science, space and pop culture.
I am your host Rebecca Felgate and today I am asking – Why Haven’t We Met Time Travellers
yet?
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Okay.
Time Travellers.
Where are they?
Widespread human fascination with time travel came after the industrial revolution when
eras stopped spanning hundreds of years, but started spanning decades.
Prior to the revolution, people could expect their lives to be reasonably similar to that
of their parents and grandparents.
Change was slower and if there was any fascination with history it would be over lengthier periods
of time.
Now though, my mums childhood in the 70s, or my grandparents lives during world war
two are much more appealing and historically loaded.
Since the space revolution, scientists have been theorising and working towards ways in
which we can travel through time.
At the moment, travelling through time with ease doesn’t work with our earth laws of
physics, however it is speculated that once we master the ability to travel at the speed
of light we may have a fighting chance.
Sadly, we are some way off being able to travel that fast right now.
Professor Stephen Hawking, amongst other big brains, theorised that we may be able to manipulate
worm holes to travel through time, too, but of course, we haven’t come across any we
have the ability to travel through yet.
All that being said, there was a time where humans hadn’t yet invented the wheel, or
the internal combustion engine.
In ancient civilisations, nobody would have conceived of fast, effective plane travel
or that one day man might walk on the moon.
Just because we can’t time travel today, doesn’t necessarily mean we won’t be able
to.
So, that being said, if we assume humans do ever get to the point where we can time travel,
where on earth are all the time travellers….
Professor Stephen Hawking Famously held a party for Time Travellers on June the 28th
2009.
He had canapes, cocktails and flutes of champagne ready.
He also had balloons and a big sign saying Welcome Time Travellers.
Of course, no time travel experiment would be complete without mailing the invites AFTER
the event in question, which is exactly what he did.
Nobody showed up and all that beautiful Krug Champagne went undrunk.
Does this mean time travels do not exist?
Or are they avoiding us?
There are three possibilities as to what might be going on here and why nobody attended Professor
Hawking’s party.
The first one is pretty sad – and that is, time travellers do not exist because humans
never manage to crack time manipulation.
Something kills us off before we get there.
What a buzz kill.
The second is that perhaps we are living through the first ever time.
To believe in time travel is to either wildly suspend disbelief, disregard paradoxes, or
to believe that there may be parallel universes existing side by side that could allow for
a future, a past and a present to somehow exist together and be travelled between, although
this would open a wider can of worms about cause and effect and whether changing something
would eradicate the outcome that led you to going back in time in the first place.
Mind boggling, so lets stick a pin in that.
IF parallel universes exist and this is the first time we are living through history and
we have not yet built a time machine yet, then how can we expect to see time travellers?
Offering a slightly different angle, Hawking’s mate Kip Throne wrote a great book called
Black Holes and Time Warps.
In this, he says the most feasible way of time travelling would be manipulating worm
holes – however he adds this would only allow people in the future to travel back
as far as the invention of the time machine itself….and as that isn’t yet, we wouldn’t
see any today.
The third possibility?
We have encountered Time Travellers, we just don’t know it.
Perhaps Time Travellers are being careful to leave no trace for fear of creating irreparable
paradoxes?
Some even argue that we have met them, we just aren’t publicly accepting it.
Recently a man called Noah made world wide headlines when he claimed to be a professional
time-traveller from the year 2030.
Amongst other things, he says he has a device in his hand that helps him time travel – which
an X ray did seem to back up.
Similarly a Greek man claimed that he was shot forward through time to the year 3207
as part of a secret military experiment.
He said buildings were huge, the grass was a weird new colour and people flew in cars
and lived among big animals and robots.
Head over to youtube, you’ll find dozens of semi convincing videos of conversations
with alleged time travellers.
In 2016, archeologists dug up an object that looked like a 2000s era mobile phone….
Like….spookily so.
Again, there is that alleged time traveller talking on a phone to someone in Charlie Chaplin’s
1928 movie, The Circus…
The Hipster on the bridge in 1948….Some people claim Vladimir Putin is a time traveller!
Are these hoaxes, or are there really time travellers out there already?
Or, do you think the lack of steadfast proof means there are no time travellers yet.
Do you think there will ever be?
Do you believe in parallel universes?
I have so many questions…which means it is probably time to end this question!
Let me know your thoughts in the comments section down below.
I am totally fascinated by this question and would like to invite future me, if your watching,
to send me a message or a sign …. Here’s hoping time travel will be invented in my
life time, anyway.
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I am your host Rebecca Felgate – I’ll catch you in the next video, but until then…stay
curious, stay alert and never ever stop questioning.