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FRAN HEALY LORRAINE KELLY JONATHAN WATSON It was all relative for Einstein – but now physicists say they’ve done the maths that prove it’s possible to jump to a different year COLIN McCREDIE JACKIE BIRD LIMMY JEAN JOHANSSON

SINGER, TRAVIS

I WOULD travel back to 1979 and visit my nana, my grandma and my uncle Bill, just to see them all again. I miss them so much.

DAYTIME TELLY QUEEN

I’D ACTUALLY rather time travel to the future. I want to see if we finally have a base on the moon, human beings set foot on Mars and travel beyond the solar system. Also whether we’ve all woken up to the threat of climate change and the world has united to tackle the problems.

I’m optimistic and would like to think the world will be peaceful in the future and more like Star Trek than Star Wars.

ACTOR

I’D TRAVEL to Bolivia in 1906 to watch Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid put on a gun show. It would have been fantastic to witness two guys, legends of the wild west, to see them in action.

Especially when you’re a wee boy from St George’s Cross. I would also go back to the November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, and position myself on the overpass to the right of the grassy knoll, just as JFK’s entourage passed underneath to see if there was any gun smoke or anything rising from the grassy knoll, and put to bed all the different conspiracy theories that rose from his assassination.

SCIENTISTS have established it is “mathematically possible” to time travel after solving a logical paradox.

Physicists from the University of Queensland said they used mathematical model ling to reconcile Einstein’s theory of general relativity with classical dynamics. And they claim to have “squared the numbers” of the grandfather p a r a d ox – thereby proving that time travel is possible.

The paradox

TAGGART ACTOR

IF I could travel back it would be exactly to 30 years ago to my first day at drama school. A sunny day on Renfrew Street as a spotty 18-year-old, I climbed the steps of the RSAMD and to the heady days of Glasgow in 1990. Now, more than ever, I’d love to be transported back to be amongst the quarter of a million people rocking The Big Day, the poll tax demos and pubs open to 2am.

PRESENTER

I’D LIKE to travel back to the long hot summer of 1976. I was in my early teens, and spent the school holidays walking my dog in the local park and chatting to the boy of my dreams. Elton John and Kiki Dee were at No1 with Don’t Go Breaking My Heart. A magical carefree time in my life.

BY in Einstein’s theory allows for the possibility of a person using a time loop to travel back in time in order to kill their grandfather.

But classical dynamics dictates that the sequence of events following the grandfather’s death would culminate in the time traveller not existing in the first place.

Physicist Dr Fabio Costa, who supervised the research, said: “The maths checks out – and the results are the stuff of science fiction.”

So if we can time travel, which year would you choose to go to?

Here these celebrities tell us where in time they’d transport to and why.

COMEDIAN

I’D GO back to the Big Bang and stop it from happening, snuff the whole thing out. Then nobody would have anything to worry about, I’d just go back and stop it all. Or I’d go back and give myself the Sports Almanac. That’s been done before, it works…

TV PRESENTER

2000 was the year my life changed forever as me and my then boyfriend (now husband) Jonatan moved to London. It felt like all of our dreams were coming true that summer. We were young and innocent and enjoying life to the maximum.