Chapter Ten: Write your reactions to any of the ideas about
the future presented in this chapter.
After reading chapter ten I would have to say that Carl
Sagan’s ideas about the future and time travel were what really caught my
attention. His answers to his questions were said in a manner that was very
easy to understand and grasp, you don’t have to be a physicist to understand
what he is saying. Sagan’s points and explanations made me very interested in
the topic of time travel; something that I felt, before reading this passage,
was a thing of movies. His idea on the “grandfather paradox” is a very interesting
one; he made a lot of valid points and raised questions that caused me to
think, such as his question about the person killing their grandfather. Do they
cease to exist because they were never made? Or does the person go on to live a
different life with different events leading up to their adulthood? I also love the statement Carl Sagan made
where he said “I think inconsistencies might very well be consistent with the
world.” This statement was not only very profound but also thought provoking. Overall
I enjoyed this selection from the chapter very much. His ideas of the future
and time travel were very honest and humble, he points out that we’re not yet
at the stage we’re we can make time travel possible but the fact that it can
even be thought as a possibility is a wonder of its own.
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