Victor Grippi – The Atomic Writer

NASA’s GLAST satellite is gearing up to send data back to earth on gamma ray radiation from celestrial bodies like; pulsars, supernova’s, and black holes. It is this latter item that may soon prove several of Stephen Hawking’s theories including that of evaporating black holes.

But is time travel possible?

This will be another step in learning more about the possibility of time travel and how science can help us understand the universe we live in. Whether time travel is something we want to embrace or not, it is an area that needs to be understood. If time travel and solving Hawking radiation is proved to not be possible, then it is very important that we understand why.

When we went to the moon, new technologies emerged that weren’t even thought of. New exotic materials, processes, innovative solutions permeated into our society and culture forever changing who we are. In a similar fashion, moving out into the cosmos via wormhole technology will again forever change who and what we are. If we as a species are to survive the long run, we must move out to other planets and systems. We must not keep all our eggs in one basket. Our current technology is not capable of allowing us to reach the stars, it will take far too long. We must develop alternative forms of transportation before it is too late.

If we discover that time travel or hyper-travel is not possible then the resulting knowledge will not have been in vein. Knowing the physics of why time travel is not possible will open up new avenues unthinkable today. Quantum mechanics has already given us solid state electronics and perhaps someday the power of quantum computing. Both of these technologies were not imagined when Neils Bohr discovered that electrons in atoms are arranged according to the energy levels in their orbits.

Here is a link to the latest news from NASA:

GLAST update.

Sidebar:
The way our economy is going, reaching out into space and other worlds may be what is needed to solve the global economic slump we are all experiencing. No longer is it us against them, but a world community where we all must join together to push the limits of our imagination and with it we all rise as new technologies and industries are born from those who dare to think out of the box. Take care until next time.

-Victor Grippi
The Atomic Writer