If you’ve ever noticed any unusual characters on December 8th, they might be celebrating Pretend To Be A Time Traveler Day! On Pretend To Be A Time Traveler Day its a day of imagination and time-hopping celebration as we pretend that we can move across the years and go wherever we want. Whether you’re entertaining the kids or looking to bring some creativity to your day, we have the best ideas to make sure you don’t get stuck in a wormhole.
Time travel is an important fixture in Science fiction we know and love today, as well as a consideration for scientists trying to crack its possibilities. But despite its appearance in numerous movies, books and TV shows, time travel is a relatively new idea.
Did you know the earliest mentions of time travel were always about moving forward. Texts like the Ancient Indian ‘Mahabharata’ used a version in which people fell asleep or visited a God and when they regained their senses found that they had jumped forward into the future.
It wasn’t until 1895 when time travel became a two-way street, with the publication of H. G. Wells’ novel “The Time Machine.” The Time Machine book popularized the notion of a vehicle designed to transport its passengers forwards and backwards in time.
The Time Machine book’s protagonist travels to A.D. 802,701 and observes the future of the human race, before returning to tell the tale to his dinner guests. The movie adaptation was created in 1960, then again in 2002 with Guy Pearce.
Time travel stories became yet again more complex in 1941 with Robert A Heinlen’s short story “By His Bootstraps” which showed the protagonist occupying multiple time-frames at once through time travel, and therefore intersecting with different versions of himself.
Numerous other new stories fascinated by the idea of moving through time and space, including “Back to the Future”, which exploded onto screens in 1985. Meanwhile, in television, the BBC invented “Doctor Who” and zapped it into homes around the UK in 1963.
Doctor Who featured a professional time traveler The Doctor and has enjoyed great success over the years with new characters, storylines and universes. In 2018 Jodie Whitaker became the first-ever woman to take on the role.
Pretend To Be A Time Traveler Day Activities
- With a few wardrobe flourishes you can dress like your favorite time traveler. Take the time to draw lines across your nose to look like the time-twisting Bajoran of “Star Trek”, or don a leather jacket like Christopher Eccleston’s “Doctor Who.” The choice is yours!
- Expert time travelers can slip seamlessly into speaking the lingo of the day, so you could celebrate by swatting up on some historic uses of words: including behold this bodkin (look at this dagger)! Or reach into the future and pull out some new words to share with others.
- Design your dream time machine because we all know The Doctor has the Tardis, and Marty used a DeLorean car in ‘Back to the Future’. What would be your ideal mode of transport through time?
Facts About Time Travel
- According to NASA the theory of general relativity provides scenarios that would support time travel and has said it may also be achievable through wormholes in time and space. Unfortunately, any living being trying would be unlikely to survive.
- Time travel is first introduced into the Harry Potter stories in “The Prisoner of Azkaban,” when Hermione uses a time turner to take more classes than time would otherwise allow. But in J. K. Rowling’s wizarding world, time travel is only permitted for mundane, everyday purposes, to stop its power being used for evil.
- The late Stephen Hawking proposed that time travel is impossible, however in the years following, the famous Scientist became increasingly frustrated that he could find no physical law that would prevent time travel. He then changed his mind, making headlines saying “Time travel may be possible, but it is not practical.”
- Theorist Roy Kerr postulated that time travel may be possible if you could enter a black hole and exit through a white hole on the other side.
- Particle accelerators work by using electric fields to accelerate groups of particles to high speeds, so far, Scientists have been able to boost particles to 0.99997 times the speed of light before smashing them into metal foil or other objects and recording the results.
Why People Love Pretend To Be A Time Traveler Day
However you choose to spend Pretend To Be A Time Traveler Day you’re traveling in time, just like every day! Whether you’re watching your favorite time travel movies or having a time travel party with your friends, you’re the hero in this time traveling story.
Today is a great opportunity to really imagine what it would be like to travel back into the past and experience history for yourself. Where would you go, and what would you see?
t’s so much fun to get into character and walk in the shoes of someone else especially someone with such incredible power. Pretending to be a time traveler means you can inject some creativity into your day!
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
