Time Travel- Maddy Oritt

I really enjoyed our guest speaker last night- he was dynamic and interesting and I especially loved seeing his slides of Salt Lake in Stegner's adolescence. It is so amazing to imagine the U when all that existed were the buildings surrounding Presidents Circle. The pictures of downtown SLC during the '20s and '30s were enchanting as well. Seeing the photos gave me a fervent desire to be able to travel back in time and get such a different perspective on various places. I have always loved time-travel-y books and movies: Somewhere In Time, with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour is a great one. I admit to being a "Lost" junkie, although that time-travel business is so convoluted and confusing.. I also read Time and Again, by Jack Finney, last winter. It's an entertaining, light read and includes fascinating pictures of New York City taken decades ago. It's fun to indulge in thoughts about time travel, thinking about where and when you would go in time. In the last couple of years, though, theoretical physicists have been doing work which suggests time travel might in fact be a possibility, though not currently a practical one. Even Stephen Hawking has accepted its possibility, changing his long-standing opposition to the idea! And they always said anything was possible...