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Oct 23 15 1:40 PM
HOLD onto your hats, people. Two Australian physicists have confirmed to The White House that time travel is indeed possible.At least, in theory, that is.In celebration of Back to the Future Day in the United States, The White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy Deputy Director for Technology and Innovation, Tom Kalil, hosted a series of conversations with innovators explaining their “mind-bending concepts” that could shape and change the world we live in over the next thirty years.“You might wonder why The White House is paying attention to a science fiction movie, but actually there’s a really serious reason to do that,” Mr Kalil told viewers via a live stream from The White House.“And that is that if you look at the history of scientific and technological development, a lot of times scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs are inspired by the science fiction books that they read and the science fiction movies and TV shows that they watch.“Engineers were really inspired by Arthur C. Clarke talking about global communication satellites. Engineers at Motorola were inspired by the communicators from Star Trekand today people are working on the Star Trek replicator.“We used to say, ‘I’ll believe it when I see it’, now we say, ‘I’ll see it when I believe it’, so science fiction is definitely serving as a source for inspiration.”Answering the question, “What does 2045 look like?”, Professor Tim Ralph of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, and Mr. Martin Ringbauer, a PhD student at the University of Queensland, confirmed the idea that humans might one day be travelling through time.But, they said, the concept of travelling into the future is far more likely than travelling back to the past.
HOLD onto your hats, people. Two Australian physicists have confirmed to The White House that time travel is indeed possible.
At least, in theory, that is.
In celebration of Back to the Future Day in the United States, The White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy Deputy Director for Technology and Innovation, Tom Kalil, hosted a series of conversations with innovators explaining their “mind-bending concepts” that could shape and change the world we live in over the next thirty years.
“You might wonder why The White House is paying attention to a science fiction movie, but actually there’s a really serious reason to do that,” Mr Kalil told viewers via a live stream from The White House.
“And that is that if you look at the history of scientific and technological development, a lot of times scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs are inspired by the science fiction books that they read and the science fiction movies and TV shows that they watch.
“Engineers were really inspired by Arthur C. Clarke talking about global communication satellites. Engineers at Motorola were inspired by the communicators from Star Trek
and today people are working on the Star Trek replicator.
“We used to say, ‘I’ll believe it when I see it’, now we say, ‘I’ll see it when I believe it’, so science fiction is definitely serving as a source for inspiration.”
Answering the question, “What does 2045 look like?”, Professor Tim Ralph of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, and Mr. Martin Ringbauer, a PhD student at the University of Queensland, confirmed the idea that humans might one day be travelling through time.
But, they said, the concept of travelling into the future is far more likely than travelling back to the past.
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