Kirabella grabbed her stuff from her desk and stood up. "I'm sorry," She said before she exited the room. No matter how hard she tried to please her mother, it never seemed to be enough. She walked back to her room to drop off her books and materials. Her room was more like a jail cell. The room was dimly lit, there was an old and a somewhat broken bed to the side and a fairly new desk, that had accumulated dust over the months. And to go with the desk, there was a metal chair that was always cold, no matter how hot the institution was. The walls were filled with drawings that she had put up to make it feel less depressing. She had a few books hidden under her bed to bring her some entertainment. Despite her room not having bars, it sure felt like a cell.
Her stomach growled, letting her know that lunchtime was near. The institution didn’t have clocks. Well, they did, but for some reason, there weren’t any in the rooms. She knew that the adults did have clocks in their room. Outside of the rooms, though, there were few clocks, and most of them didn’t work. The only working clock was located in the cafeteria.
The purpose of this text, ‘From Here to There,’ is to explain time-travel and its consequences. Physicists have always wondered if time-travel is possible, and what effect it would have on our lives in the present. The text says, “The laws of physics as we know them now don’t disallow time travel,” explains the 57-year old Nahin. “Anything that physics doesn’t forbid must be considered.” This means that, in physics, it’s possible until proven impossible. According to the text, time travel is plausible, but it would take a ridiculous amount of fuel to get anywhere, as well as very specific standards to be able to time-travel. The text says, “Other physicists, hoping to prove that time travel is theoretically possible, have devised on paper four different ways to do it. But all require unrealistic quantities of energy under hugely improbable conditions.” Another concern of the scientists who researched this is the butterfly effect. This is a theory that states that one tiny action could have a catastrophic impact, starting a chain reaction and potentially destroying the universe. The text says, “Nahin says time-travel paradoxes are “manifestations of imperfect understanding.” So, thankfully, this paradox might never come to fruition.
