There may be no other concept that captures the imagination more than the idea of time travel -- the ability to travel to any point in the past or future. What could be cooler? You could jump into your time machine to go back and see major events in history and talk to the people who were there! Who would you travel back to see? Julius Caesar? Leonardo da Vinci? Elvis? You could go back and meet yourself at an earlier age, go forward and see how you look in the future... It's these possibilities that have madetime travel the subject of so many science fiction books and movies.
It turns out that, in some sense, we are all time travelers. As you sit at your desk, doing nothing more than clicking yourmouse, time is traveling around you. The future is constantly being transformed into the past with the present only lasting for a fleeting moment. Everything that you are doing right now is quickly moving into the past, which means we continue to move through time.
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Ideas of time travel have existed for centuries, but when Albert Einstein released his theory ofspecial relativity, he laid the foundation for the theoretical possibility of time travel. As we all know, no one has successfully demonstrated time travel, but no one has been able to rule it out either.
In this edition ofHow Stuff Will Work, we will learn about the concept of time and the different theories surrounding the viability of time travel.
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