Our explorative nature is the strongest tool we have as human beings, to help us navigate our way around this world and beyond, and it is this nature combined with a ceaseless desire to know and understand more that has compelled us to dive to the depths of our oceans, kick up the dusty surface of our moon and circle the globe at speeds our bodies are not equipped to endure. The search for meaning in an otherwise chaotic existence moti vates us to stop at nothing to push the limits of what is possible. Sometimes succeeding and often failing we continue, on our path to enlightenment. Professor Otto Lidenbrock would certainly attest to this after his ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth.’ The adventures foretold by this fictional character may have been written in fantasy, with its giant mushrooms and prehistoric monsters, but the message was clear and the question was real. How far can we push our limitations, and could we ever actually travel to the center of the Earth?