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The idea of changing the past to change your future is
something we’ve touched on briefly in the past, but for our next episode we’re
going to tackle it directly. We’ll be looking at time travel and in preparation
for this episode we’ve been looking at the issue from a number of different
areas.
To begin with there is the wealth of pop culture treatments
of time travel, from the hilarious (such as The Hot Tub Time Machine films) to
the more sedate (like Primer). Then you have a real life physicist named
Ronald Mallett, who has seriously investigated time travel in order to see if he could somehow prevent his father's early passing. His life’s work
has a weirdly cinematic vibe that continues to blend the line between fantasy
and possibility, that all time travel fictions contend with.
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| Ronald Mallett |
Moreover there’s plenty of fun that can be had with the
variety of paradoxes that come with time travel as a concept, most famously the
Grandfather paradox whereby a time traveller could inadvertently hurt or affect
their grandfather in such a way as to threaten their own existence.
In
response theories, that I admittedly don’t fully understand, have been put forth
to suggest this is an impossibility but even so it’s a curious and quite scary
risk for any time traveller.
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| Sometimes there are things worse then death, like being your own grandfather... |
There are so many fascinating areas of exploration with this
topic, from whether time travel, even in the form of sending messages from the
future to the past, is a possibility in our lifetimes to whether it is even
desirable were it to be possible.
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| Time travel could seriously inhbit your ability to order a cheeseburger |
In any case whatever direction, we choose to take this
episode in, we hope you tune on Sunday 20th March where it’ll be available on Itunes,
TunIn, Soundcloud and Stitcher.
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