• Question: Will it ever be possible to do time travel like in Endgame or any kind of tech in the MCU like a Ark Reactor (what powers Tony Starks Iron Man suit) or any kind of tech like nano tech.

    Asked by anon-294056 on 13 Jun 2021.
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      Christopher Todd answered on 25 May 2021:

      Nano tech is definately on the rise, scientists are building self assembling materials, and robots small enough to manipulate cells. Unfortunately these are often “dumb” robots which require direct signals/control from the doctors so we are quite a long way off from a nano-tech iron man suit.

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      Edward Smart answered on 25 May 2021:

      One of the priorities of UK Research and Development is improving battery performance. You quite rightly pointed out how Iron Man’s suit can do what it does because it has such a powerful energy supply.
      Having better batteries for electric cars, or drones, or smartphones, could be really useful and enable them to do more things.
      Cold fusion is an interesting possibility, in that it could produce a lot more energy than is required to power it but we are a decade at least (if not more) from doing this.

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      Jennifer Graham answered on 25 May 2021:

      I would say never say never – its certainly an exciting area to think about!
      One way you can look at time travel though is by just looking into space. Because things are so far away, it takes the light ages to get to Earth, so in a way you are looking right back into the past. If you went to say the star, NGC 6052 which is in the Hercules constellation and 230 million light years away, and looked back to Earth then you would actually see dinosaurs walking around!

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      Emma Yhnell answered on 26 May 2021:

      Maybe one day! I think we are a fair way off at the moment.
      If time travel does become a possibility think of all of the questions that it might throw up though like…

      Potentially cheating in exams
      Changing the past so that it impacts the future
      Treating diseases if we know that they are there earlier
      Would people be able to time travel even if they have died?
      How far forward or backwards in time could we travel?

      It throws up sooooooo many interesting questions! I think we need to have a think about why we want to time travel too so that it is used appropriately

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