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Stephen Hawking

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.

Stephen Hawking

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Stephen Hawking is saying that while time travel was once only imagined in stories, Einstein’s theory shows it might actually be possible by bending the fabric of space and time. This bending could let someone travel in a spaceship and come back to a time earlier than when they left.

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