What We Thought This Decade Would Be Like Vs. Reality

Time Travel Would Be A Thing

Whether you’re watching Doctor Who, Star Trek or Back to the Future, the idea of time travel is really cool. Unfortunately, we still can’t hop into a Delorean and drive ourselves into a different decade. The main caveat of time traveling back in time is that you’d need to travel faster than light. That’s simply not possible.

According to Physics.org, traveling forward in time is actually not difficult at all. Einstein’s theory of relativity shows that time passes at slightly different rates for people moving relative to one another but it’s negligible unless you’re approaching the speed of light. To go backward in time, you’d have to move even faster. Nope, not happening anytime soon.