Friday, April 26, 2013
Time Travel And "The City On The Edge Of Forever?"
Please write a critique of The City On The Edge Of Forever using the Traveling Through Time and/or Carl Sagan Ponders Time Travel articles. Challenge at least one idea within your notes that the article seems to debunk or challenge. Please defend your response and use quotations to support. This blog response is due the day we finish viewing the film...
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The article we read said that it was impossible to travel backwards in time, yet in the Star Trek episode, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy did. I thought it was interesting that the man that took McCoy's thing beamed away, and they never explained where he went.
ReplyDelete"The City on the Edge of Forever" showed the Star Trek gang going back in time which, according to Carl Sagan isn't possible. Carl Sagan said, "It might be that you can build a time machine to go into the future, but not into the past." It is also unknown whether time travel is available, and even though this episode is set in the future, time travel may not even be possible.
ReplyDeleteThe star trek film suggests the idea of the butterfly effect, i.e. a small action taken or not taken can radically change history. The Carl Sagan interview suggests that if reverse time travel could occur, all of causality could be in trouble, and history would become an "experimental science." The implications are fascinating.
ReplyDeleteI thought that the star trek episode really showed how if you travel back in time one slight change can alter the course of history. It is an interesting question that will not be answered for some time. Time travel seems like it is very unpredictable and the Start Trek episode did a good job of showing that. The only thing was that they had some loose ends in the story.
ReplyDeleteIn Carl Sagan's article, he mentions, "Right now we're in one of those classic, wonderfully evocative moments in science when we don't know,... what is at stake." This episode challenges this idea because the whole point of their time travel was to change the future.
ReplyDeleteThe City on the Edge of Forever does not represent what Carl Sagan believes in or teaches. In the episode, three people travel back in time and change history, while Sagan believes that "It might be possible to build a time machine to go into the future, but not into the past."
ReplyDeleteIn the Star Trek episode, "The City on the Edge of Forever" they travel backwards in time to change the past. It goes out to show how anything can change the future including what goes on in the present. The film did a good job displaying this however, the understanding of the whole concept was a little confusing.
ReplyDeleteThe episode of star trek "The city on the Edge of Foever" the captain and a few of his crew travel backwards in time, causing a few riples to occur in the future. Carl Sagan in his interview mentioned time travel backwards saying it would have great consequences on the future and it wasn't a good idea, which seemed to be the whole premise of the Star Trek episode. The two tied nicely in with eachother.
ReplyDeleteIn the episode "The city on the edge of forever" was a good show but it challenges the idea of time travel into the past. In Carl Sagan's article he says you can travel into the future but not the past. So in the episode it has a gap of the rules of time travel.
ReplyDelete"The City on the Edge of Forever" showed the Star Trek gang going back in time which, isn't possible according to Carl. The episode showed how if you travel back in time, one small change can affect everything in the future.
ReplyDeleteIn the episode "the city on the edge of forever" the crew goes back in time in effort to change the past. This to me shows that even the slightest change in the past can entirely effect the future which was shown by the death of the girl. This episode is opposite from the Carl Sagan article which explains that you can only travel into the future, not the past.
ReplyDeleteIn Carl Sagan's article, Mr. Sagan mentions that traveling backwards through time is impossible. However, in the Star Trek film, Kirk and a couple other members of his crew were able to travel through time. Although they had to endure some challenging things in order to not change the future, they were able to successfully travel through time.
ReplyDeleteIn the article "Carl Sagan Ponders Time Travel" the interviewer asks if he thinks time travel backwards would ever be possible to which Carl answered: "...history would be become an experimental science...I have no idea whether it's possible, but it's certainly worth exploring." I think the writers of the Star Trek episode "The City On The Edge Of Forever" would agree that backwards time travel is worth exploring. In the episode they also explored the idea of the butterfly effect showing the effects of a simple action or inaction. However, the episode did leave a few holes in their story, like the man who beamed away and how the captain, spock and the doctor got back through the gate.
ReplyDeleteThe episode of star trek "The city on the Edge of Foever" They travel backwards in time, causing a few changes to occur in the future. Carl Sagan in his interview mentioned time travel backwards saying it would have great consequences on the future. This is completely different from the article because they couldn't travel back only forward.
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