How You Can Attend Stephen Hawking’s Party for Time Travellers

Vedang
5 min readJun 6, 2020

If you’re thinking about how to time travel, you’re already doing it, albeit second by second.

The Welcome Banner at Stephen Hawking’s Party for Time Travellers

Putting the obvious aside, if attending this one of a kind party interests you, there are some complex ways that can get you there.

Everyone remembers Stephen Hawking’s party for time travelers. In case you don’t, here’s the gist: He threw the party first, then sent out invitations saying “You are cordially invited to a reception for time travelers” after the party was over. This way, only time travelers could attend his party. Just as the average human being would expect, nobody showed up. But this simple experiment raised the question of whether time travel is possible or not, and whether it could be possible under the domain of science.

Time travel has been the premise of many sci-fi shows, with Dr. Who weaving in and out of different periods of time to save civilization and the premise of all the ‘Back to the Future Movies’. But are we really that far from such a fascinating concept or are we close than most people think? The answers may surprise you.

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Vedang

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