Reply #5: My 12-year-old science-loving son [View All]

[liberalhistorian]

insists that it really is possible to build a time travel machine, and has been working on a "blueprint" for a year now. Something to do with physics and relativity and warp speed, and all that other kind of stuff that I never seemed to fully understand (obviously, he didn't get his math and scientific aptitude from me, lol)!

When people tell him he's crazy, that there's no way to time travel and there will never be any kind of time machine, he simply reminds them that that's what people thought about airplanes and cars and the telephone, etc., etc., and it just took people thinking outside the box, so to speak, and doing things differently, believing it could be done, to do it. I don't know, I let him have his fantasy, but really, you just never know! I, too, have always been fascinated with time travel, and one of my favorite type of science fiction stories is time travel stories.