What exactly is time travel? What urges the human race to constantly seek out new ways to explore the dimensions of time? We can trace the existence of time travel theories well back into the history of modern man. Some believed, some did not. To this day only a small number of scientists actually explore the possibilities of creating ways to break this silence that prohibits us from knowing just exactly what the vast area of time is. The theories and speculations first rose into the public eye with the publication of H.G. Wells' book The Time Machine in the late 1800's. Some called the publication a complete fallacy, one marked with errors and scientific miscalculations. Jules Verne denounced the book after its release, yet the book's imaginative spin on the possibility of time travel sparked people to wonder and dream if the idea could actually exist.

Einstein came into the scientific realm and shocked the community with his findings and theories of the modern world. His theory of relativity has been widely used as a resource to all modern science, especially in the field of time travel. In it he states that space and time coexist. Giant gravitational forces (such as stars) create "dents" in this space-time fabric. What if we could jump these dents?

Einstein states that the closer one travels to the speed of light, the slower time revolves around that person. So if you're on a spacecraft traveling around the earth close to the speed of light for four years, when you return back to earth the world may have aged forty years.

So traveling forward in time is a fact. It can be done. The question that dominates the debates in scientific studies over time travel is the idea of traveling backwards in time. Can it be done?

In 1985 Professor Kip Thorne of The California Institute of Technology began searching for alternate wormhole solutions that would allow safe passage for interstellar travelers. He stated that wormholes, at least temporary ones, are an inevitable result of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity. The relevant element in G.R. for wormholes is the bending of space-time by gravity of other forces. If bent enough, space-time may curve back on itself and link to another region of space-time, creating a connection between two regions.

In 1985 Professor Kip Thorne of The California Institute of Technology began searching for alternate wormhole solutions that would allow safe passage for interstellar travelers. He stated that wormholes, at least temporary ones, are an inevitable result of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity. The relevant element in G.R. for wormholes is the bending of space-time by gravity of other forces. If bent enough, space-time may curve back on itself and link to another region of space-time, creating a connection between two regions.

Yet these traversal wormholes require negative energy, which is gravitationally repulsive, therefore enabling the wormhole from collapsing. With this negative energy, the resulting negative gravity and pressure forces the wormhole to stay open. Once opened it can be stabilized for time travel. See picture above for more details.

Thorne's ideas were revolutionary in the the development of wormhole theories.

We can see these ideas brought into the public sphere by movies such as Back to the Future.

Back To The Future. Time Travel through a machine back to 1955.

WHAT ABOUT QUANTUM MECHANICS?

Quantum Mechanics deals with the behavior of fundamental particles, which cannot be explained under classical Newtonian physics. It presents with the theory of relativity an extremely important approach to understanding the universe.

We know that all matter is composed of atoms, yet these atoms are made up of smaller subatomic particles. The observation of these atoms reveals a number of strange phenomena's.

Kip Stone, a relative theorist, devised a theory where wormholes could act as time machines. He believed, according to the principles of quantum mechanics, that if a space craft was strong enough to travel at something near the speed of light through a wormhole, that time would travel backwards. By following the principles of the special theory of relativity that says time moves slower for objects traveling near the speed of light, it would be possible to travel in time.

Dr. Sebastian Blackheart

Now we have Dr. Sebastian Blackheart. He is the chief designer of all time-travel theories throughout the modern world. With the help of Kip Thorne and Dr. Sergei Krasnikov, Blackheart has revolutionized the ideas of wormhole travel and found evidence to support his claims. He's published numerous books, appeared in nationally televised interviews, and advised countless political leaders.

SERGEI KRASNIKOV INVENTS HIMSELF

The Russian scientist has said that his wormholes create their own exotic matter out of nothing when space and time are curved in the right way. There needs to be sufficient quantities to make it big enough to where it will stay open long enough for people to use. He is now in Austin, Texas with Dr. Blackheart researching the recent wormhole finding thirty-five miles north of the city.

SO WHAT ABOUT THE GRANDMOTHER THEORY?

One theory that rests against the idea of traveling backwards in time is the notion of the traveler killing his grandmother, which in turn would entirely wipe out his existence. Yet if you do happen to go back and cause the death of your grandmother or mother you would therefore never have been born and never made the trip to begin with. So the journey never happened and no one died after all. This means that you were born. Got it?