Last Christmas holiday, I spent so much time catching up to watch movie that I had skipped along the way (since this God damn study force me to have no life at all!). One of the most anticipated movie to watch was Star Trek (2009).
Since I was a child, there are two series which became my favorites: Star Trek and Sea Quest DSV (Deep Sea Vessel). These series helped me since I always dream to be born not of this boring world. I've spent almost all night on my teenage years with Captain Picard (of USS Enterprise), Nathan Bridger (of Sea Quest), and Kathryn Janeway (of USS Voyager), which resulted in sleep beyond usual curfew.
My mom once said "Oh this TV series is so suitable to trick little kids". Which I found right now is correct.
For whatever reason, Star Trek 2009 failed to trick me. I've tried "to be tricked" but it just failed.
How come they are still doing the "back to yesterday" thing!
The story is Spock's vessel and Romulan ship fell into a blackhole and suddenly transported back to the past, which later on the Romulan ship destroyed USS Kelvin and Vulcan homeworld.
For current physic world, and for understandable logic and reason, travelling back to the past is considered much more complicated than travelling to the future (which can be achieved by make use of time dilatation a.k.a travelling with the speed of light).
Stephen Hawking (one of the most famous great thinker still living today) once quoted "the best evidence we have that time travel is not possible, and never will be, is that we have not been invaded by hordes of tourists from the future."
Another conjecture is you can only travel back in time only until the time when you created the time travel device. Suppose that you can open a portal to the future (say 3 minutes later). And 3 minutes in the future you throw an apple to it. The apple should come out at the moment you opened the portal. It can't go to the time beforehand, because the portal will have not been created!
Then how come Spock and Romulan ship transported back until the time when even the red matter have not been created? If you say the blackhole distort the fabric of space and time so enormously that it spans over time, then when Romulan ship created blackhole in the center of Vulcan homeworld, rather than only destroying the present Vulcan homeworld, it will also destroy the "past version" of Vulcan homeworld, and vice versa the "future version" of it. The how come Vulcan race is still exist?
The other physic fiascos are explained here:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/05/08/ba-review-star-trek/
Nevertheless I'm still a fans of Star Trek! This is a show that boldy dare to go where no man has gone before.
