From Land to sea to air (including space), transportation has
evolved dramatically. The evolution has reached to a point where people believe
that they are comfortable with present condition and nothing more to be
developed in transportation. But is it really the case?
But before answering that question, let me quickly take you through
the history of transportation and how and why it was developed. Since the start
of human kind, they were able to move from place to place on foot. Thereafter,
in order to travel faraway and move heavy objects, they used tamed animals such
as donkeys, camels and horses. Then with the advancement of science, mechanised
transportation was born. Starting with the cycles, cars, trains were the
wonders done by the name of science. Our ancestors didn’t satisfy with well-developed
land transportation systems. They went on to build ships and airplanes to
fulfil their urges to travel by sea and by air. Lately, in a curiosity to
explore our universe, human invented rockets, which is the present most
developed mode of transportation. Eventually, it has been considered that,
space travel is the ultimate end of evolution of transportation.
Yes, not only now we can travel anywhere in our planet, but
also anywhere in our universe (given that, enough fuel and other resources are available).
It is a good milestone to celebrate, but it is not the ultimate point of
transportation.
In my opinion, we have missed out an important transportation
requirement through-out the history. That is to move from one universe to
another. I believe moving through universes also belong in transportation as it
falls under the basic definition of transportation, “moving from one place to
another”. However, not a lot of research have been done under this topic.
Therefore, unfortunately we are in the starting point of the developing
inter-verse travel, while we are in a considerably developed position in terms
of intra-verse travel.
Although inter-verse travel seems a weird subject, many evidences suggest that universes other than the one we live in exists. According to Multiverse theory and Many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics (MWI) put forward by Dr. Hugh Everett, there exists infinite number of universes and keep increasing for every moment of events. Hence, there must be a way to move through one another.
Several suggestions are presented by eminent scientists all
around the world regarding inter-verse travelling. Even late physicist, Stephan Hawking has suggested that black holes can be a passage to another
universe. More research on inter-universe travelling will eventually take us to
a foreign universe. Therefore, under transportation, lot more focus must be
given to inter-universe transportation, similar to the importance given for
intra-universe transportation.
Therefore, what I suggest is, without focusing only on
transportation within our universe, we must investigate this different aspect of
transportation as a further development for transportation.
