GET READY… WE HAVE THE ABILITY FOR TIME TRAVEL!
Those are the thoughts of famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who recently made news by admonishing humans not to contact alien life or risk being obliterated. Now the noted and respected scientist and host of the Discovery Channel television show “Stephen Hawking’s Universe” wants us all to know the capabilities and reality of true time travel.
When Hawking presented his latest ideas about what travel in the future might resemble, he admitted that he had long kept quiet on the subject for fear of being labeled a heretic by the scientific community. But now, he is freely discussing how spaceships will one day be so fast that we won’t know whether we’ve come or gone. Hawking suggests that Einstein’s theories of relativity will become obsolete and, at some point when we’re all long gone, a day on a spaceship traveling at 650 million miles per hour would be akin to one year on Earth.
He does stress, however, that time travel will only be performed in a forward motion. Meaning humans may be able to travel forward toward the future, but may not be able to return back to present day (that is, unless the future has already invented the possibility, making it as simple as boarding an airplane).
