Whenever you look at vintage photographs taken using old methods, there’s always a certain haunting quality about them. The life captured is so still, the eyes always seem so dark. It’s almost joyless. Photographer Victoria Will wanted to see how old photographs would translate with modern people so she used an 1860’s era method of photography called tintype to capture celebrities today. It’s fantastic.
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Genius. Photographer Chino Otsuka has discovered the art of time travel. Instead of exploiting a whole in the Space-time continuum to time travel, she simply digitally spliced her adult self into old photographs from her childhood. That way it looked like adult version of Otsuka was meeting child version of Otsuka. So clever.
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Given the option to travel back in time, most people generally would generally commit some combination of lottery fraud, evil dictator slaying, and othewise trying to avoid disrupting the spacetime continuum. For the sake of science, though, two physicists are hoping that, no matter what you do, you at least find some time to tweet—so they can find you.
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Yes, this "Internet" radio from the late 1960s or early 1970s is real. But no, it’s not the doings of some sneaky time traveler. It’s yet another lesson in how history plays tricks on the future. With words.
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Okay so yeah, we can’t actually do all of this time traveling in practice, but there’s a lot of jumping around that physicist know would work in theory. And if they could just figure out how to create negative energy, also known as exotic matter for some reason, we could build spinning cylinders and wormholes to our collective heart’s content. And as Minute Physics points out, don’t forget the type of time travel we all do constantly. It’s quotidian enough to be kind of annoying, but it’s actually kind of great to remember that we’re all moving through space-time all the . . . time.
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Time travel has always been the thing we associate with the future. But we keep reaching the future, only to find that time travel still eludes us. What’s holding us back? Nothing, it turns out.
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Though most of us probably think time travel only works inside a DeLorean, much smarter folks out there can explain it slightly better than Doc Brown. Like this TED-Ed animation narrated by Colin Stuart. It reveals how time travel is possible, who has time traveled the longest, the history of time travel and the hopeful future. Learn something and then maybe we’ll be ready for the future. [TED-Ed]
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Actually, time travel is confusing on many levels—what the hell did happen in Twelve Monkeys exactly?—but it’s the simple things that can cause the biggest headaches. Especially, as the mouse-over text in XKCD points out, the countdown: “T-minus 10… 11…”. [XKCD] More »
Ever wonder how the time travel theories in one movie line up with every other movie about time travel? Here’s a pretty great flowchart that susses out exactly which type of of temporal chaos a movie wreaks. Although even with this thing, I still don’t know what the heck was going on in Twelve Monkeys. [Mr. Dalliard via ILoveCharts via LaughingSquid] More »
Ali Razeghi, an Iranian scientist who is the managing director of Iran’s Centre for Strategic Inventions, has done something only the great Doc Brown has done: he’s created a time machine. But unlike Doc’s DeLorean, Razeghi’s “The Aryayek Time Traveling Machine” can only take you to the future. What are we waiting for? Let’s go! More »
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