Time Traveler from Year 2256 | Science behind the Mystery | Dhruv Rathee
Dhruv Rathee・18 minutes read
A man named Andrew Carlssin claimed to be a time traveler from the future, making millions in the stock market, sparking FBI suspicions. While time travel to the past faces logical challenges, traveling to the future is scientifically possible through concepts like time dilation, as explored by scientists like Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne.
Insights
- Time travel, a concept explored in literature and films, can be categorized into various types like one-way travel to the future, instantaneous time jumping, and slow time travel, with scientific feasibility demonstrated through time dilation based on Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity.
- Theoretical physicist Kip Thorne suggests the potential use of small wormholes for time travel to the past, highlighting the significant energy requirements, including negative energy, to create and maintain them, while major obstacles like paradoxes pose challenges to altering the past, making travel to the future a more feasible and likely possibility.
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Recent questions
Is time travel to the past possible?
No, traveling to the past faces logical obstacles.
How can time travel to the future be achieved?
Time dilation through speed or gravity enables future travel.
What is cryosleep and its purpose?
Cryosleep slows aging for long-duration space travel.
How did Stephen Hawking test time travel?
Hawking hosted a party for time travelers.
What are the different categories of time travel?
Time travel includes various methods like time dilation.
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Summary
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"Time Travel: Fact, Fiction, and Possibilities"
- In March 2003, the FBI arrested Andrew Carlssin, a man who made an extraordinary $349.2 million profit in two weeks from an $800 investment, leading to suspicions of insider trading.
- Carlssin claimed to be a time traveler from 250 years in the future, knowing stock market outcomes, which the FBI doubted.
- Before December 2002, there were no records of Carlssin, and he vanished before his court appearance on April 3.
- Time travel has been a concept explored since H.G. Wells' 1895 novel "The Time Machine," inspiring research and films.
- Time travel can be categorized into one-way travel to the future, instantaneous time jumping, time moving around the traveler, slow time travel, and traveling at the speed of light.
- Traveling to the future is scientifically possible through time dilation, as per Albert Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity.
- Time dilation can occur through speed, where faster objects experience slower time, as proven by the Hafele Keating Experiment in 1971.
- Gravitational force also causes time dilation, with more gravity leading to slower time, as depicted in the film "Interstellar."
- Cryosleep, a concept shown in films like "Passengers," is being researched by NASA to slow aging and enable long-duration space travel.
- While traveling to the past is not currently feasible, glimpses of the past can be seen by observing light that has taken years to travel to Earth.
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"Time Travel: Past Impossible, Future Feasible"
- Stephen Hawking hosted a party for time travelers on 28th June 2009 at the University of Cambridge, where no one attended, aiming to prove time travel to the past is impossible.
- Theoretical physicist Kip Thorne suggests that small wormholes, smaller than atoms, could be used for time travel, requiring a significant amount of energy, including negative energy, to expand and maintain them.
- The possibility of time travel to the past faces major obstacles like paradoxes, such as the Grandfather Paradox and the Predestination Paradox, which challenge the logic of altering the past.
- While traveling to the past presents logical problems and paradoxes, traveling to the future is feasible and increasingly likely, with glimpses of the past already achievable, as depicted in films like Interstellar, contrasting with the fabricated story of Andrew Carlssin's time travel.
