Can We Time Travel?

Tumble Science Podcast for Kids

Tumble Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Is it possible to build a time machine? Can we time travel someday? That’s what Tumble listener Willa wants to know. Clifford Johnson, a theoretical physicist and film consultant, says that there’s real science behind the time travel - and he’ll tell us what it takes to do it. To learn more about time travel, go visit our blog at sciencepodcastforkids.com, where you can find all sorts of awesome resources to go along with this episode. This is our last episode of season 9! If you like what we do, why not support our show on Patreon? Just go to patreon.com/tumblepodcast and support us at any level for ad-free episodes, or for $5 a month you can hear a happy birthday wish on our show. Visit our Threadless shop to get awesome tumble t-shirts: tumblepodcast.threadless.com

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Lindsay.
0:05.0	And I'm Marshall. Welcome to Tumble, the show where we explore stories of science discovery.
0:09.0	Today we're asking if it's actually possible to build a time machine.
0:14.8	You mean outside of a movie or a book?
0:17.6	Yes.
0:18.6	It's true we have lots of ways to imagine time travel, but there is real science behind it.
0:26.2	And we'll talk to a scientist who says we can actually time travel right now.
0:37.0	Today's question comes from Willa. My name is Willa.
0:38.0	I'm 8 years old. I'm from Austin, Texas,
0:41.0	and my question is, would it ever be possible for us to build a time machine?
0:45.3	That's a really good question.
0:46.4	Could we build a time machine ever?
0:49.3	Yeah, and I really wanted to answer this question because we've played with the idea of time travel
0:55.3	on our show a few times before.
0:57.8	Some of our guests have suggested that the only way to answer certain scientific questions is for one of our listeners to build a time machine to study
1:05.9	them.
1:06.9	Yeah, I mean we did that in our episode.
1:08.5	Our T-Rex is smart and also how did language begin?
1:11.6	Where you can go back and listen to those
1:13.4	on your favorite podcast app.
1:15.8	But while we're listening to this episode,
1:18.2	let's ask our listeners, do you think
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