Transformative Essay: The Miscalculation Of Time Travel

1. Science Fiction, sci-fi, is one of my favorite genres. Sometimes they are action-packed full of futuristic battles, or they are sometimes thought-provoking stories with abstract ideas. They are movies like Terminator (1984), directed by James Cameron, Star Wars (1977), directed by George Lucas, and Back to the Future (1985), directed by Robert Zemickis. A few predominant conventions in the sci-fi genre are time, establishing shots, and an advanced artifact of great power. All the sci-fi movies I listed above have these conventions.

In Chapters 15-22 of Looking Backward written by Edward Bellamy, there a quite a few examples of freedoms in his utopian world as well as restraints. Beginning in chapter 15, Dr.Leete makes clear in that the government doesn’t regulate in the production of art. Authors just have to pay for the costs in order to print their book. After that, the government places sets those books at a fair price according to the author. Therefore, the author of the books working hours can be reduced if he charges and earns well. People who are talented or interested in writing is able to without hindering anyone in the attempt of trying. In this society, groups of people who would like to publish articles such as a newspaper, need to have enough readers subscribed

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the title character believes he possesses the power to control time. In doing this, Gatsby thinks that he can repeat his past. His downfall comes when he fails to realize that even though as a child he schedules his time carefully leading him to believe he is in control. As an adult, he fails to realize that his ability does not allow him to control others.

shows Gatsby’s attempt to pick up where he left off with Daisy and set everything back into

Jay Gatz's Dream was first to get money. After a change of thoughts, he then wanted to go back in time and be with Daisy to recreate the past. In the Valve, the idea of the valve is how time flows and never stops. Jay's first dream is to get money and then when he gets only he becomes corrupted. After he has the money he tries to recreate the past because he wants to be with Daisy, because now he has money. Jay tries to reverse time to go back into the past. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and David R. Slavitt's The Valve, Jay Gatsby is the main character who has a dream of getting back with Daisy after he starts to acquiring currency.

There are many movies and books that portray traveling through time using a time machine or finding a time capsule. In 1938, the first time capsule was recorded in reference to the one “deemed capable of resisting the effects of time for five thousand years preserving an account of universal achievements embedded in the grounds of the New York World’s fair.” Jones (archaeologist of A.D. 5139) potters about for a while in the region which we have come to regard as New York, finds countless ruins, but little of interest to the historian except a calcified direction sheet to something called a “Time Capsule.” Jones finds the capsule but cannot open it, and decides, after considerable prying at the lid, that it is merely evidence of an archaic

F. Scott Fitzgerald in his novel, The Great Gatsby, follows the the life of self-made mogul Jay Gatsby during the roaring 20’s. After separating from his true love Daisy, Gatsby decides to reunite with her in the hopes of rekindling the romance they had together before he left. However, is Gatsby’s thinking and hopes viable? Fitzgerald raises the question of whether or not we are able to manipulate time. To a great extent, Fitzgerald demonstrates through Gatsby and Daisy that ultimately we cannot reconstruct time to our

Time jumps and bounces around in the plot of Slaughterhouse Five. As Billy Pilgrim progresses through the plot, he finds himself experiencing various periods of his life in a jumbled sequence. Kurt Vonnegut plays with time to illustrate a specific point. Vonnegut shows us how time is a coping mechanism

Many times an individual desires to travel back in time to revisit a particular event. They may choose this pleasant circumstance or maybe there was an important cue in a conversation that they did not catch because the person was distracted. While we have recently made numerous technological advancements, one has not mastered time hopping. However, people are not the only ones who want to reverse time, but the government actually performs this action. Now they can press rewind, reviewing camera footage and sent text messages.

Quantum teleportation is familiar to everyone but no one knows what it is. Quantum teleportation is in movies like Interstellar, Star Trek, and Back to the Future but what is it? Quantum Teleportation is defined as, “a hypothetical technique to instantly transfer properties from one quantum system to another without contact, or to transfer a quantum state to an arbitrarily distant location.” (dictionary.com) In everyday terms, what that is saying is something is transferred to somewhere else. How is that possible though? Charles Bennett of IBM states that, “I think it’s quite clear that anything approximating teleportation of complex living beings, even bacteria, is so far away technologically that it’s not really worth thinking about it.” (NBC News) This means a leading physicist did not think it was possible; he was proven wrong by himself. Quantum teleportation is when an object is broken down into tiny particles, moved to a

In order to understand why it is that time cannot pass if nothing changes, one must first consider the structure of time itself. There are two differing ideas on what exactly time looks like. When thinking of a timeline, some see time as the line itself, and think that it exists whether there are events on it or not. Others, though, see time as being made up of the events that happen in it. If there are no events, then there is no time. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy introduces this idea by saying, “For, the thinking goes, if there could be a period of time without change, then it follows that time could exist without any events to fill it; but if, on the other hand, there could not be a period of time without change, then it must

HG Wells’ novel The Time Traveller was influenced by his contemporary Charles Darwin and his evolutionary work, On the Origin of the Species, in several ways. The Time Traveller is set at the turn of the 19th century and then moves forward to the

Everyone reacts to certain events differently. For example, you might be content with getting art supplies as a gift, while someone else would be greatly displeased. This very idea is prominent in the first few chapters of The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, which tells the story of a scientist

In the movie ‘In time’ directed by Andrew Niccol, Niccol aims to to show and represent the instincts and flaws of human nature. The main character Will Salas, loses his mother to the system his society runs on. The system is made up of the death of poor people so that the wealthy can live forever. During the scene of Will and Sylvia Running to the next time zone and Leon chasing them, Niccol’s aim is shown through the use of camera angles such as- tracking, wide and mid shot etc. Gestures and facial expressions, lighting and colour, Music and sound. These four techniques help emphasis Niccol’s aim and also shows the influence that being superior has on people.

Time travel is a concept that most people only believe to exist in works of pure science fiction, but it may be a reality within the next generation. It is possible that if we travel close to the speed of light, we can travel forward in time; however, today 's technology has not provided us with a way to get back home. The fastest object created by man has gone 164,700 miles per hour or 45.75 miles per second (The Fastest Man-Made Objects, 2018). That is only 0.002 percent the speed of light, which would only send you into the future 2 milliseconds if you were on the ship for a whole day. The only plausible way to go back in time, is to open up a wormhole to the point that you would like to travel back to, travel into the future, make the other end of the wormhole travel at the speed of light. From there you may walk into it and go back to the first point. Although wormholes and manned light travel is all a theory, it could be a possibility in the future.