It is even more difficult to imagine the consequences that time travel would have on society. Currently, science has no real knowledge of the possibility of time travel. However, there is far more science behind time travel than most people realize. All humans are ‘stuck’ in the flow of time.3 Time travel would introduce a completely new perspective on time in which it could be possible to know past and future moments as surely as we can know the present. The past would no longer be irreversible and the future would no longer be inevitable. However, there are a few problems with this. Several theories exist about the possibility of changing the past, but the “Grandfather Paradox” best illustrates the logical problems with changing the past. Time travel into the indefinite future is far more possible because time actually slows as you approach the speed of light. The “Twin Paradox” illustrates the possibility that one twin could go on a space voyage and return to Earth only slightly older while his twin has long since died of old age. The consequences of time travel on society would be tremendous. Today’s moral systems are based on the concept that (as Shakespeare wrote) “what’s done cannot be undone.” A society in which the correction of past mistakes or the prevention of future ones was possible would most likely have a radically different moral system less focused on the consequences of one’s
It is even more difficult to imagine the consequences that time travel would have on society. Currently, science has no real knowledge of the possibility of time travel. However, there is far more science behind time travel than most people realize. All humans are ‘stuck’ in the flow of time.3 Time travel would introduce a completely new perspective on time in which it could be possible to know past and future moments as surely as we can know the present. The past would no longer be irreversible and the future would no longer be inevitable. However, there are a few problems with this. Several theories exist about the possibility of changing the past, but the “Grandfather Paradox” best illustrates the logical problems with changing the past. Time travel into the indefinite future is far more possible because time actually slows as you approach the speed of light. The “Twin Paradox” illustrates the possibility that one twin could go on a space voyage and return to Earth only slightly older while his twin has long since died of old age. The consequences of time travel on society would be tremendous. Today’s moral systems are based on the concept that (as Shakespeare wrote) “what’s done cannot be undone.” A society in which the correction of past mistakes or the prevention of future ones was possible would most likely have a radically different moral system less focused on the consequences of one’s