Where would Travis and Jason Kelce go if they could use a time machine only once? That is the question a fan asked the duo during the ‘no dumb questions’ segment of their podcast ‘New Heights.’ You guessed it! It’s Back to the Future!
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Travis was intrigued by the idea of exploring the future, as he conjured up images of Marty McFly from the 1985 sci-fi classic, “Back to the Future”.
Although Travis mused about meeting dinosaurs if he ended up traveling in the past, he was more thrilled with journeying light-years into time ahead.
“I mean, it’s cool to maybe see a dinosaur in person, but at the same time, I’m trying to see what the f*ck if going on in the future here. Like, do we all turn into computers? Because if so, I want to get a head start on that now.”
Given the three-time Super Bowl winner’s romance with pop star, Taylor Swift, it’s understandable why he might be tempted by a sneak peek into their future together. An expedition of that sort can reveal what lies in store for the lovebirds, who are currently in a long-distance relationship because of their professional commitments.
Jason Kelce’s paradoxical chaos
While the younger Kelce wanted to travel years ahead, Jason approached the time machine question from a strategic standpoint. The Eagles veteran came up with a clever and slightly mischievous idea. He proposed traveling to the future to when time travel is invented, so he could go anywhere he wanted.
Then he suggests traveling back to the moment before time travel existed and preventing its inventor from creating it, which would make him the sole person with that ability.
This plan, according to the former Eagles center, would give him an edge in time travel over everyone else.
Now, not to get into that whole rabithole but that that would be paradoxical and would result in the branching of a a timeline…
Or so you would think. The late Stephen Hawking believed, while one does possess the ability to move chronologically through time in a two dimensional plane, it was unidirectional, which means, one can only move ahead. The closer one gets to the speed of light, the slower time moves, propelling them forward.
However, it is unlikely that it can be achieved in the other direction, since that would really mess up the law of physics. And thankfully so, because no one wants good old Jason to be the only one with the power to time travel.
Regardless, to lighten the mood after their interesting discussion, the Kelce brothers referred to the sci-fi movie “Hot Tub Time Machine” which was released in 2010 with a similar plot. Jason jokingly wondered if he had pulled off a genius move by borrowing the storyline from the movie.
