Is time travel possible? - Colin Stuart

Who holds the record for the most amount of time spent orbiting our planet?

• Buzz Aldrin

• Yuri Gagarin

• Neil Armstrong

• Sergei Krikalev

What effect did Sergei Krikalev experience during his stay in space that allowed him to time travel into his own future?

• Time Loop

• Time Dilation

• Time Stop

• Time Reversal

Which two American scientists in the 1880s were trying to measure the effect of the Earth's movement around the Sun on the speed of light?

• Isaac Newton and Galileo Galilei

• Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell

• Albert Michelson and Edward Morley

• Marie Curie and Pierre Curie

What did Albert Einstein formulate that opened the door into the world of time travel?

• Theory of Special Relativity

• Theory of General Relativity

• String Theory

• Quantum Mechanics

What did the scientists in the 1970s use to test the theory of time dilation?

• Ships

• Planes

• Trains

• Cars

What effect does the speed of satellites of the global positioning system have on atomic clocks on board?

• They have no effect on the clocks

• They cause the clocks to stop

• They slow down the clocks

• They speed up the clocks

What happens to time dilation as the speed of travel increases?

• It decreases

• It increases

• It disappears

• It remains constant

What is the potential year a person could return to on Earth after traveling close to the speed of light for what seemed like ten years?

• 5000

• 11000

• 7000

• 9000

What is required to accelerate heavy things like people and space ships to close to the speed of light?

• Nuclear energy

• Solar energy

• Wind energy

• Unimaginable amounts of energy

What did scientists use to accelerate tiny subatomic particles to close to light speed?

• Microscopes

• Telescopes

• Particle Accelerators

• Radar Systems