![]() ![]() I never allowed myself the time to experience each location as well as I should have. Looking back now (almost 10 years later… yikes!) I realize that I remember very little of my trip. ![]() I spent three days in London, four days in Ireland (I visited three cities), two nights in Kraków, two nights in Budapest, two nights in Prague, two nights in Munich, two nights in Switzerland, a day trip to Salzburg, one night in Frankfurt, three nights in Amsterdam, one night in Bruges, three nights in Paris, a night in Glasgow, two nights in Edinburgh… I think you get the idea. I had the exact same mindset during my first trip to Europe. And, if you’re an American, you get a laughably small amount of vacation time to travel, so you want to feel like you’re making good use of your time. I mean, travel isn’t cheap, so you want to get your money’s worth. Now, I 1000% understand why you’d want to visit as many places as possible. Take time to absorb the places you visit. Here is my advice to all travelers: SLOW DOWN. And, with the rare exception, nearly everyone has packed their trip to the gills. How do I know this? Because I get dozens of emails each week from people asking me to look over their upcoming trip. You’ve probably been thumbing through dozens of guide books, spending countless hours clicking through websites, and creating an itinerary that’s about two miles long. The trip of a lifetime where you want to see and eat and experience and smell and absorb as much as humanly possible. You should definitely check out his article on Slate for deeper looks into each of these rules and how the movie follows them.įor sci-tech (and some occasional sci-fi) news, check us out on Twitter.If you’re reading this, there is a good chance you’re planning a trip to Europe. Whatever you can do in the past, you have already done – because it's the past.įinally, don't like the third rule? Tough. Third, "you can't kill your own grandfather." Everything that happened already happened. Why are time machines on- and off-ramps and not the cars themselves – something that travels with you from place to place? Can a reader explain to me what the fine professor did not in the few-hundreds words that his editors allowed? I'll admit, this one doesn't make sense to me. "As a time traveler, you can't visit an era unless there's already a time machine when you get there-an off-ramp." Einstein's theories say that "traveling through time would be much like traveling through a tunnel in space-in which case you'd need both an entrance and an exit," Goldberg writes. Second, you can't go back in time beyond when you first invented your time machine. The movie (or at least the book) sticks to this single timeline idea. No matter where or "when" you go, science won't let you split off into alternate, parallel realities. How so? Goldberg lays out four scientific laws of time travel.įirst, there is only one universe. But The Time Traveler's Wife follows through on its premise in a realistic way." "The premise is no more or less plausible than that of, say, Back to the Future, in which a tricked-out DeLorean must reach 88 mph to jump into the past. "I'm so excited about the film adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife, which tells the story of Henry DeTamble, a man with a rare genetic disorder that causes him to skip around in time while his long-suffering wife, Clare, waits for him at home," the professor writes for Slate. The Washington Post also chides the latter movie for its "laughable plot."īut, Drexel University physics professor Dave Goldbery says that the movie is one of the very few that portrays time travel in a (mostly) scientifically accurate way. "District 9" is " highly creative and amusing." Whereas "Time Traveler's" is without "logic, thrills, or romance. If you can only see one, our reviewer, Peter Rainer, clearly supports one over the other. This weekend brings two sci-fi movies: The allegorical alien flick "District 9" and the sci-fi-lite romance " The Time Traveler's Wife." ![]()
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