If you could go back in time and shoot Adolf Hitler, would you pull the trigger or not? The idea of killing a villain in this world's history is actually a good thing. However, there is so much to discuss when it comes to going back in time. You will be a hero in this generation if you can kill the young Hitler but you are a monster at that time if you murder that child. There are facts to consider before you make a decision to go back in time.
Let's talk about the idea of time travel first. We all know that time travel already happens today. There are astronauts out there who are in space who is currently moving faster than us, here on earth. We can also imagine and re-imagine the moments we miss the most like the first of school or the time we laid our eyes on our partners or the birth of a child. We are basically traveling through time via imagination.
But those concepts are totally different from what we are expecting a time journey to be. Science fiction books and movies gave us the idea of being able to go back in time and see the future. Interstellar travel into the intervening decades, which is what most people think of when they say time travel, is a significantly riskier undertaking. In our cosmos, no experiment or observation has ever shown that time travel is possible.
There is a chance that humans can create the concept of a time machine by making a wormhole. Wormholes join different places in spacetime, therefore implying they might theoretically allow time and space travel. Morris, Thorne, and Yurtsever figured how to turn a wormhole traveling space into one navigating time by speeding up one of the wormhole's two entrances in 1988. Despite substantial research into the theoretical features of wormholes over the last decade, nothing is established as to how to create a macroscopic wormhole substantial enough for a humanoid or a spaceship to travel through.
There is news that says that the time machine has already been built, however, scientists are doing the best they can to make it as efficient as possible. Time is relative given how quickly you are going, thus according to Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity. This is the foundation for actual time travel notions and studies. The slower an object moves relative to another object, the slower that the first item sees time, according to special relativity. Furthermore, according to general relativity, clocks that are closer to the nucleus of a huge gravitational mass like Earth ticks slower than clocks are much further distant.
Going back to the idea of killing Adolf Hitler, let's take a closer look into it. Because of what Hitler did to the mass, it's undoubtedly that he is an evil villain. Even though his leadership skills were up to par, it wasn't a backup for all the wrong things he did. If I will going to put an end to this by going back in time, I will be the hero. But since I put an end before he even did something, how can books write me as a hero. Everything will change, not only the fact that the child Adolf will die but also how the world will turn. People will look at me as a murderer and not a hero. I will have a hard time convincing people of what this child will do in the future because of two things, they may not believe that the child will be that evil or the child will likely do other things and history will be rewritten. This concept is from a situation perspective.
Looking into the physical perspective with the time machine will be dangerous. There are studies that say that time machine is hazardous to a human's body. Possibly because of the chemicals and the speed of light that will be used to be able to go back in time. I wasn't really convinced by this concept, however, take a look at the movie Tomorrowland. There are scenes where whenever they travel through time, they are exhausted afterward and had to drink coke. I don't get the idea of drinking coke or maybe I just missed it in the movie but all I know is that in that short amount of time, their body was difficult to stand the power of time traveling.
If we are to look at the bigger picture, there will be people who will take advantage of having a time machine. Rich and powerful people would use it to make them even more powerful and somehow kill the enemies that forbid them in their businesses. Government people will use it to produce or change the concept of world wars which will make a bigger mess. A man would probably start the concept of Tesla even before Elon Musk or Microsoft even before Bill Gates. A greedy woman would probably marry a man who became a successful person in the future. An abusive man would probably be more abusive thinking that no one in the past knows who he is or what he does when he gets drunk and angry. Life would be completely different because since we all know the mistakes we made, the right choices will be done in the past.
It may be a fantasy for people to go back in time, but we have to think of deeper thoughts before doing a decision that will not only affect us but other people as well.
