Bill Nye Quotes

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.

In Einstein's equation, time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is that it can have whirlpools and fork into two rivers. So, if the river of time can be bent into a pretzel, create whirlpools and fork into two rivers, then time travel cannot be ruled out.

I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?

The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, time travel's a nightmare. Don't go down that path.

I've always been a big fan of time travel, and I'm very into the notion that some day we'll be able to do it. Beam me up!

Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.

People who think about time travel stories sometimes think that going back in time would be fun because you would have all the information you needed to be much more astute than the people there, when the truth is of course you wouldn't.

Finney is about the best writer of time travel stories ever, and I adore time travel stories - have to make a time travel game someday!

Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you've built up from everyday experience. It says your experience of time is not what you think it is, that time is malleable. Your experience of space is not what you think it is; it can stretch and shrink.

I have a secret project which adds four hours every day to the 24 hours we have. There's a bit of time travel involved.

Imaginary time is a new dimension, at right angles to ordinary, real time.

When you look at the calculation, it's amazing that every time you try to prove or disprove time travel, you've pushed Einstein's theory to the very limits where quantum effects must dominate. That's telling us that you really need a theory of everything to resolve this question. And the only candidate is string theory.

Originally, the burden of proof was on physicists to prove that time travel was possible. Now the burden of proof is on physicists to prove there must be a law forbidding time travel.

If time travel were possible, you still wouldn't be able to change the past - it's already happened!

The one thing humans can't control is time, but what if one has the power to do so is the core theme of '24.'

The simplest way out of the puzzle of time travel is to say that it can't be done. That's very likely the right answer. However, we don't know for sure.

I like the sci-fi channel. Just science in general. I came across a segment on time travel and how time travel is possible. We create a spaceship that's moving at almost the speed of light, we go in that spaceship in outer space, and we fly around for a year, when we get back to Earth, Earth would've aged 10 years.

I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.

Unlike some of the time-travel movies I love, like 'Primer' or '12 Monkeys,' 'Looper' is not about time travel. It's about this situation that time travel creates and the people dealing with that situation. So narratively, the big challenge was to have time travel get out of the way.

Technologies that may be realized in centuries or millennium include: warp drive, traveling faster than the speed of light, parallel universes; are there other parallel dimensions and parallel realities? Time travel that we mentioned and going to the stars.

Trust me: you make a movie about time travel, and you know for a fact humans will never travel through time. The paradoxes that come up just from trying to tell a story with time travel really illuminates the fact that it's impossible. It will never happen. We can barely get through a movie that involves time travel.

The show is '12 Monkeys,' and I'm playing the role that Bruce Willis played in the original film '12 Monkeys.' It is a show about time travel. My character is from a future post-apocalypse, and he has been given a mission to go back in time to essentially set things right and stop the apocalypse. No big deal.

'8 Miles to Pancake Day' is a reconciliation of the classic space-time dilemma.

I'm always game for movies based on time travel. Hopefully, someday, I'll be a part of a time travel series of films.