"We are constantly travelling to the future": physicist Roberto Emparan, about the apparent oddities of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. I live 4,200 kilometres from my city. But if I say that I am only a hundredth of a second light from it (time it would take the light to travel that distance), the distance seems shorter. Since nobody can travel at the speed of light, I go to my city by plane on a flight that takes six hours..."
About the Author
Roberto Emparan is an ICREA researcher at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona, he is one of our most internationally recognized physicists in the field of gravity, black holes and superchord theories. His research focuses on the study of gravity, the structure of space-time, and black holes, in both classical and quantum aspects. He has published nearly 100 research articles and taught over 150 invited talks and lectures on black holes, string theory, and cosmology.