Hey this is fire boy 11 and today I'm going to rant about time travel. The concept of time travel has been present in the world of science for ages. However in modern years it has been proven theoretically that time travel is indeed possible. I'm not going to bore you with how this has been prove, because quite frankly I'm not too sure myself. But what i am going to do is write my opinion if in the future time travel is possible.
Ok so lets consider that about fifty years from now time travel is possible. One major question we need to ask ourselves is if time travel will be a boon or burden to society.
Lets first have a look at the pros of time travel. I guess the main benefit of time travel would be prevention calamities and losses of life, property and money. For example the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and the 2011 Tsunami which hit Japan caused much loss of life.However if we can go back into the past and warn the people of these events beforehand, then the losses can be minimized. Similarly wars can be stopped and terrorism can be countered
Time travel can also be used for the good of humanity. Lets consider economy. Countries, using time travel, can go into the future can look at the state of their economy. If it is bad and it is falling then they can find the root cause, come back to the present and work to combat this cause. Similarly if their economy is flourishing and is on the rise then they can come back to the present and help other developing countries boost their economy just like they would go on to do. In a much larger scale time travel can be used to save mankind. This may sound very far out and movie like but in case some incident occurs which threatens the very existence of life in Earth such that it is too late to combat this problem, then people can go back into the past ans warn society about this threat of the future.
In my opinion the cons list of time travel is bigger than the pros list. First of all even if time travel was possible and it was used to do all the things i listed on my pros list, I think no one in the 'past' will believe a person if they come up to them and say that they are from the future. I mean think about how bizarre that sounds. Hence it is hard to believe that many such calamities will be prevented at all.
My second point is that time travel will help change the way in which the future plays out. Though this may be a benefit in some cases in others it may not. I say this because this will allow a person to change the fate of some other person, for better or for worse, without that persons knowing. I feel that this is not good. Also time travel will make crime like murder, arson and robbery so simple. People will just go back in time to a year maybe even before the year they were born and loot as much money as they want and come back in the present. The looted will not be able to catch him as at that time he was neither born nor was time travel invented.
Another point of inconvenience is time travel will lead to paradoxes such as the grandfather paradox. The paradox is this: suppose a man traveled back in time and killed his biological grandfather before the latter met the traveler's grandmother. As a result, one of the traveler's parents (and by extension the traveler himself) would never have been conceived. This would imply that he could not have traveled back in time after all, which means the grandfather would still be alive, and the traveler would have been conceived allowing him to travel back in time and kill his grandfather. Thus each possibility seems to imply its own negation. Such paradoxes are ill logical and the end result is unknown.
So there you have it - my opinion on time travel. I would love to hear your views so please leave a comment and while you're at it hit the follow button.
Here's some food for thought. If you go back into the past and murder yourself is it still suicide?
Ok so lets consider that about fifty years from now time travel is possible. One major question we need to ask ourselves is if time travel will be a boon or burden to society.
Lets first have a look at the pros of time travel. I guess the main benefit of time travel would be prevention calamities and losses of life, property and money. For example the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and the 2011 Tsunami which hit Japan caused much loss of life.However if we can go back into the past and warn the people of these events beforehand, then the losses can be minimized. Similarly wars can be stopped and terrorism can be countered
Time travel can also be used for the good of humanity. Lets consider economy. Countries, using time travel, can go into the future can look at the state of their economy. If it is bad and it is falling then they can find the root cause, come back to the present and work to combat this cause. Similarly if their economy is flourishing and is on the rise then they can come back to the present and help other developing countries boost their economy just like they would go on to do. In a much larger scale time travel can be used to save mankind. This may sound very far out and movie like but in case some incident occurs which threatens the very existence of life in Earth such that it is too late to combat this problem, then people can go back into the past ans warn society about this threat of the future.
In my opinion the cons list of time travel is bigger than the pros list. First of all even if time travel was possible and it was used to do all the things i listed on my pros list, I think no one in the 'past' will believe a person if they come up to them and say that they are from the future. I mean think about how bizarre that sounds. Hence it is hard to believe that many such calamities will be prevented at all.
My second point is that time travel will help change the way in which the future plays out. Though this may be a benefit in some cases in others it may not. I say this because this will allow a person to change the fate of some other person, for better or for worse, without that persons knowing. I feel that this is not good. Also time travel will make crime like murder, arson and robbery so simple. People will just go back in time to a year maybe even before the year they were born and loot as much money as they want and come back in the present. The looted will not be able to catch him as at that time he was neither born nor was time travel invented.
Another point of inconvenience is time travel will lead to paradoxes such as the grandfather paradox. The paradox is this: suppose a man traveled back in time and killed his biological grandfather before the latter met the traveler's grandmother. As a result, one of the traveler's parents (and by extension the traveler himself) would never have been conceived. This would imply that he could not have traveled back in time after all, which means the grandfather would still be alive, and the traveler would have been conceived allowing him to travel back in time and kill his grandfather. Thus each possibility seems to imply its own negation. Such paradoxes are ill logical and the end result is unknown.
So there you have it - my opinion on time travel. I would love to hear your views so please leave a comment and while you're at it hit the follow button.
Here's some food for thought. If you go back into the past and murder yourself is it still suicide?
Hmm...time travel. Interesting choice of topic. Which begs the question, which grade r u in?
ReplyDeleteTime travel has always been only an imaginary entity that will never be possible. It's not only impractical, but also illogical.
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Yes, I agree completely. In the end I think you can never change the past.
ReplyDeleteGreat post. I really enjoyed the analysis.
I'm in the tenth. Yes i understand that it is ill logical and imaginary but the concept is rather fascinating. So naturally i start to think what will be different IF it was indeed possible.
ReplyDeleteAgreed, the concept is interesting. And the number of books written and movies made based on the subject should be proof enough to say that it will continue to fascinate generations to come.
ReplyDeleteNice post, looking 4ward for more.
And, if I may say so, for a 10th grader, you write remarkably well.
Wow this is a change from all the stuff you do in school :) And have you seen that movie Source Code? This is exactly what they talk about. You'll find it interesting :)
ReplyDelete@ goldenmist thank you
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you;r not the first one to say that :p
fire boy 11 sexy name and by the way tuliki source code is traveling into literally different cant say world but a different time which has no connection to the real world cause in source code they tried finding the bomber even if they tried to stop the bomber it wouldnt change anything in the real world
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