In City
on the Edge of Forever, a point is brought up about our impact on the timeline
of history if we were ever able to travel forwards or backwards in time. This
episode of Star Trek shows how one action might change the entire history. In
some cases, interaction with one person might have no effect but in some it
might change an entire outcome. Another issue that was brought up was the
notion that when we travel in time, we cannot be in two places at once. In this
episode, the main characters are only gone from the others for a couple of
seconds, but for those seconds they only existed in one place at a time.
In the
article Carl Sagan brings up the point that all of us are time travelers in
some sort of way because we are all going further into the future with every
day we live. I don’t think that people really think of this concept because we
don’t normally think of living our everyday lives as time traveling. I agree
with Sagan’s thoughts about time traveling in the past. I don’t think it’s
something to be messed with because it might mess with our own existence and
fate/destiny wouldn’t be present. I also believe that we cannot simply go back
in time to kill our grandfather’s. If we were somehow able to do this I think
that somehow the universe would prevent it because there always has to be a
root of a cause.
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