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Someone, anyone, alter my essay. Por favor!

Asked by icehky06 (896points) April 6th, 2012

I am just about ready to send this essay out to a school and I would love to hear your insight and the alterations you people have to offer. Please be honest! Thank you for the time you are taking out of your day to help me with this.

Earlier this year I watched the movie Donnie Darko for the first time. I sat throughout the entire film captivated and was left with more questions rather than answers, but in a good way. Donnie Darko is centered on the complex idea of time travel. I was truly enthralled by the notions of reality and concepts that I thought only existed in science fiction. Although, I have always been quite fond of myths and conspiracies, I did not expect to become as deeply intrigued as I found myself to be after watching that movie.
A few days later I stayed up researching time traveling and after skimming through websites, I was hooked on the various concepts addressed throughout each site. My mind opened to the mysteries of the universe and the current investigations that scientists are exploring now. Among the many complex ideas, I was particularly attracted to Einstein’s theory of special relativity. In the beginning, I had difficulties comprehending how time was not constant but depend on an object’s speed. After spending much time researching online and watching related videos on YouTube, I have a better understanding even though I have not mastered the idea. Special relativity is such a significant discovery in history that leads to several possibilities, including the prospect of time travel, which really grabbed my attention. As I further researched, I was fascinated to learn about a scientific research conducted in Switzerland. Certain particles approaching the speed of light have been observed to exist for much longer periods of time than their normal lifespan, which is evidence that time travel is not just some impossible, crazy idea. It is bewildering to think that science has the ability to accomplish ideas that I once imagined only for fiction.
Some scientists have already come to the conclusion time travel is not possible, but others, including myself disagree. Time travel is possible, it’s just the conditions to make it happen is hard to accommodate. Time traveling is theoretically possible – we just really cannot accelerate humans nearly as close to the speed of light.
Along with special relativity, I am also fascinated by the theory of worm holes. Worm holes are my favorite time traveling- related topic. Which makes me believe it works because of the space-time. Space-time is curved like a cylinder the top of the cylinder is the same as the bottom a wormhole is a tunnel that goes through the cylinder that leaves you where you started only older.

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