Victor Grippi – The Atomic Writer

Related to discovering and measuring Hawking Radiation will be the validation that time travel, in one form or the other, will eventually be possible. Arguments such as, why are we not being visited currently by travelers from the past, is not a valid argument against the possibility of time travel. What if travelers from the past can only return to the point in time when time travel is perfected and reduced to practice. Let’s say that in the year 2020 the first wormhole is opened and sustained. This would then mark time 0. Carl Sagan expressed this very idea in an interview he did for the Nova PBS channel.

Carl Sagan, the astronomer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and legendary popularizer of science, gave this interview during the making of “Time Travel.” True to form, he discusses arcane aspects of the field—from how you define time to what it might look like inside a wormhole—with flair and a refreshing dash of humor. Sagan was David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University when he died in 1996.

Here is the link to that interview:

Carl was taken way too soon from us, and I personally owe alot of my interest in science to this great man.

-Victor Grippi
The Atomic Writer