Monday, December 2, 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 by 2:30p.m. on Fri., Dec. 6th.
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ReplyDelete“The City on the Edge of Forever” is not completely accurate on time travel. If one man went into a different time and changed the future in some way then the other two men who went after them would have changed the future as well. “But suppose-just suppose-that this Thromberry person, what wit his experiments in electronics and everything, has in someway managed to crack through this time-space barrier…”(Lewis 3). One man can change one future at a time, two men can change two futures at a time. The man who became sick changed the future by saving a life, the two men should have changed the future by stealing clothes or working at the soup kitchen. If it were a bit more accurate then they would have changed time as well.
"The line between science and mysticism sometimes grows thin."- This relates to "The City on the Edge of Forever", in a strange way. The scientists on the Enterprise are the top scientists in the galaxy, and even they could not understand this certain way of time travel.
ReplyDeleteWhen we talk about this Star Trek episode, we have to remind ourselves that this was in the 60's. There are obviously going to be a lot of mistakes with the way Gene Roddenberry portrays time travel. Bones going back through time was a big enough problem to begin with but wouldn't Kirk and Spock mess up the future as well? Even if they managed to fix the bigger picture, smaller futures would have been altered like when they stole the clothes. We like to think we have an understanding of time travel when we obviously do not. It's much more complicated than we think it is.
ReplyDelete"The City on the Edge of Forever" has an interesting take on time travel, giving it a less harness-able feel, being able to slow down a certain period of time fast enough that you can jump in around the same time. What "The City on the Edge of Forever" plays a part in is mental insanity, as well as schizophrenia, which plays a part in some other science fiction stories and comics, like "Spider-man" with the villain. The idea of a schizophrenic antagonist is very popular within many Sci-Fi stories.
ReplyDeleteWhen time travel is discussed in the article Traveling Through Time is questions ideas like "is time real? does it flow in one direction? what is eternity? None of these questions can be answered to scientists' satisfaction." These ideas are somewhat answered in a fictional way in the episode of Star Trek. What if there was a portal on a far away planet that controlled what we know as time? The events that occurred in the episode of Star Trek could be possible however, the energy needed to actually crack through the time-space barrier is more then could be conjured by any rock that we know of
ReplyDeleteTime travel that is talked about in the article Traveling Through Time is questioning science. No questions in the article can be answered using science. It's all science fiction (fake). There's no possible way that these concepts could be justified using science.
ReplyDeleteIn the article, the ideas of time travel seem possible but rather not probable. There is great theory to go with the concept of time travel, but not enough science to back up the theories. I've read many an article and seen many a television show about time travel theory, but like the article, time travel is only talked about as a thoery and not as a true factual science backed by numbers or data.
ReplyDelete"The City on the Edge of Forever" is an interesting film but does not have much to do with how the past affecting the future. Before have to time travel it would be a good idea for them to first see the consequences they would have and then what the others would. I think that the man who went insane would not have changed the future for the whole space craft because he had been far from Earth for a longer time and things changed over the years. One confusing part is when the man took the space guys control, is he the one who changed everything or not?
ReplyDeleteThe articles adress the concept of time travel as not having any backing in science. It would seem that every aspect encompassing the theory have no science to back them up. Therefore, one may draw the conclusion that unless there is some fantastical discovery then time travel isn't possible.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed watching "The City on the Edge of Forever". It was interesting and brought up some interesting ideas about time travel. However, I did think that there were a few plot holes in the story relating to the actual time travel. For on thing, Kirk and Spock managed to jump back before McCoy arrived and they were in the same area. The rock thing was just a portal though, so it seems very lucky that they were able to get there to the same spot and figure it all out. And there is also a bit of a contradiction. If McCoy jumped back and altered history so that the USS Enterprise and the world they knew didn't exist, then why was the crew still on the planet be in their state before McCoy's jump? Shouldn't that have changed too? The article refers to time travel as scientific thinking, not possibilities. While the episode of Star Trek was fun and enjoyable, it really doesn't have much scientific backing to it.
ReplyDeleteBased on the article, the possibility of time travel doesn't seem likely. There wasn't any science to back up the theory. If time travel is a probable, we are a long ways away from getting there.
ReplyDeleteIn the article and other texts, time travel is talked about with great wonder. The article does have a good theory about time travel but without the science to back it up, it will only be a theory that may never be reached or at least in the near future.
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