“Albert Einstein Time Travel CAN we go backward in time? Like the protagonist in H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine, can we spin the dial of a machine and leap hundreds of thousands of years to the year 802,701? Or, like Michael J. Fox, can we hop into our plutonium-fired cars and go back to the future? The possibility of time travel opens up a vast world of interesting possibilities. Like Kathleen Turner in Peggy Sue Got Married, everyone harbors a secret wish somehow to relive the past and corre...ct some small but vital mistake in one’s life. In Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken,” we wonder what might have happened, at key junctures in our lives, if we had made different choices and taken another path. With time travel, we could go back to our youth and erase embarrassing events from our past, choose a different mate, or enter different careers; or we could even change the outcome of key historical events and alter the fate of humanity. For example, in the climax of Superman, our hero is emotionally devastated when an earthquake ravages most of California and crushes his lover under hundreds of tons of rock and debris.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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