This is a BIG dang day….  I’ll tell you.  It is the kind of day that dreams are made of.

When you were a kid, do you remember reading your first science fiction novel… where it talked about Time Travel?  I don’t know  the exact day.  But I remember the feeling.  I laid in the grass in our backyard on Bruce Avenue, and stared up at the sky.

And I wondered.  And wondered… if it were possible.  And if so… how?

Little did I know.  Then.

For… whatever day that WAS… nearly 60 years earlier… history was made.  You see… on today’s date… in 1905…. a Physics Journal…. called the Annalen der Physik,  published Albert Einstein’s paper “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?” —- This is the paper of Big Al’s which introduced the equation E=mc².

It was a Wednesday.  I can’t imagine what Al was doing at the time.  Probably dunking chocolate chip cookies in a tall cold glass of milk, and wondering if the crumbs were floating because they wanted to, or because, for a moment, their molecular density….. contained less density than that of the milk… making the cookie crumbs buoyant.

But here is what our boy, Albert Einstein, did.   He turned the notion of the impossible on its head when he announced his Theory of Relativity. It was met with admiration, enthusiasm, skepticism and, in some cases, confusion.

Einstein’s Theory of Relativity is, in fact, a two-parter. He proposed that time and space aren’t absolutes.   And… it also maintains that gravity and motion can affect time and space.

These theories…… revolutionized science….. particularly in the fields of physics, astronomy and cosmology.

Yes…. It has affected a whole big bunch of scientific movements and discoveries.  But of course…. the COOLEST is time travel.  And… according to Uncle Al…. the ability to travel through time….. is a theoretical possibility.

Here’s the dirt.  Time is relative. There isn’t one set hour that’s universal for everyone and everything.

Rather, time speeds up and slows down depending on how fast one particular object is moving relative to another object. The have proven this in outer space.

AND…..Oddly enough….. the closer an object travels to the speed of light, the slower time passes. If someone could travel at the speed on light, this “time traveler” could, in theory, travel thousands of years into Earth’s future.

So.  Now that you know all of that… the age old question is finally answered.  The CHICKEN has ALREADY crossed the road… to get to the other side…. TOMORROW.

And the cow jumped over the moon.

Now THAT is SCIENCE at its BEST.

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”  T.S. Eliot

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”  Friedrich Nietzsche