• Question: Is it possible to do an actual time warp?

    Asked by iprod1997 to Ben, Clare, Ezzy, Mario, Sam on 13 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Mario Campanelli

      Mario Campanelli answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      time is warped, in the sense that for two observers feeling different gravitational attractions time evolves at different speeds. If you mean going backwards and influencing current events, no that would produce too many paradoxes

    • Photo: Clare Burrage

      Clare Burrage answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      Do you mean the dance? I’m pretty sure I can do that 🙂
      As we understand physics at the moment it wouldn’t be possible to warp time and space enough to travel back into your own past. But if extra dimensions exist – and some scientists think they do – then it might be possible to take a short cut through the extra dimensions to travel between places that are far apart.

    • Photo: Elizabeth Pearson

      Elizabeth Pearson answered on 19 Mar 2012:

      I can do the dance spectacularly well :).
      As for time travel, no. I don’t think we’ll ever send people back.

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