Time-Travel Puts You On the Titanic
Empowered with the gift of time-travel, we can venture into the past once. We can also go to only one moment in the past.
It is 1:31 PM on April 11th, 1912. We are in Queenstown (today Cobh), Ireland. Standing on the deck of the RMS Titanic, we stare down at the well-wishers watching as the anchor of the grand, and biggest ship afloat, breaks off the bottom and is pulled back into the ship.
After a small pause, when time seems to have stopped completely, the ship slowly begins to move in the direction of the wide-open sea. It is destined for America, New York City to be exact. In exactly 4,969 minutes from that moment, the great ship, a wonder of the world, will be completely submerged by the icy waters of the north Atlantic.
Gifted with the knowledge of the future, thanks in part to the James Cameron movie The Titanic, we know exactly what is going to happen. The rules of time-travel being what they are, however, we can’t share this insight with anyone. The words simply won’t be heard. So what would we do? How do we act? How do we live out the next four days knowing that on that night, when the air starts biting at our cheeks a bit more noticeably, the ship will slam into that iceberg?
