This essay was written by Fourth Form student Thomas Aczel as a Junior Independent Learning Assignment (ILA JNR) project. It was the winning submission in the Fourth Form category of the 2025 Junior ILA awards. The following provides a short introduction to the full report, which can be found below:
The essay that you are currently reading has travelled through time. This is not even in the boring sense that most people would fall into the misconception of accepting. It is, yes, going into the future as we all are, but not only that, the series of binary digits that make it up have been sent through a combination of electrical signals and electromagnetic waves. This is a more interesting and different type of time travel. The difference would be the same if you ran up and down a corridor with it in your hands. Why? Time travel is not what you think …
The Unchained Library 