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Could time travel soon become a reality? Physicists simulate sending quantum light particles
www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | 23 June 2014 | By Jonathan O'Callaghan

Posted on 06/23/2014 10:54:00 AM PDT by Red Badger

University of Queensland researchers say photons can move through time A simulation of two wormhole-travelling photons found they could interact This suggests, at the smallest scales, jumping through time is possible The experiment could solve some famous theories that 'prevent' time travel But whether this will be possible on a larger scale remains to be seen

If a time traveller went back in time and stopped their own grandparents from meeting, would they prevent their own birth?

That’s the crux of an infamous theory known as the 'grandfather paradox', which is often said to mean time travel is impossible - but some researchers think otherwise.

A group of scientists have, for the first time, simulated how two time-travelling photons would interact, suggesting that, at a quantum level at least, jumping through time might be possible.

The research was carried out by a team of researchers at the University of Queensland in Australia and their results are published in the journal Nature Communications. The study used photons - single particles of light - to simulate quantum particles travelling back through time.

By studying their behaviour, the scientists revealed possible bizarre aspects of modern physics.

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TOPICS: History; Society; UFO's; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: callingartbell; ftl; stringtheory; superluminal; time; timemachine; timetravel; timetunnel
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To: Red Badger

ditto that!


41 posted on 06/23/2014 11:27:12 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Red Badger

If time travel were EVER possible, we’d know it by now.

It would have been a part of life since the day we were born.

It can and will NEVER be possible.


42 posted on 06/23/2014 11:29:39 AM PDT by joethedrummer
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To: Red Badger

Sheldon Cooper: If either of us invents time travel, we agree that our first stop will be this meeting five seconds from now.

[Looks around]

Sheldon Cooper: Well, that was disappointing.


43 posted on 06/23/2014 11:32:18 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: joethedrummer
If time travel were EVER possible, we’d know it by now.

It is, and we did, but all the people who knew about it left.

44 posted on 06/23/2014 11:34:38 AM PDT by Oberon (John 12:5-6)
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To: Red Badger

What do we need! Time travel!! When do we want it? It’s irrelevant!


45 posted on 06/23/2014 11:35:06 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: Veggie Todd

“Angels and ministers of grace, defend us!”


46 posted on 06/23/2014 11:35:13 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: Huskrrrr
Any time travelers reading this please send me Saturday’s winning Powerball numbers.

I'd be happy to, but you're not going to need them in view of the upcoming fiery worldwide apocalypse next month...but there, I've said too much...

47 posted on 06/23/2014 11:36:13 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Red Badger

No need for time travel. I can predict the future. In 2008 I told people if they vote for Obama, he’s going to be the worst President in this nations history. That’s right, just call me future boy.


48 posted on 06/23/2014 11:37:04 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: Red Badger

No, you would only be changing the location of the mass with respect to it’s location in 4 dimensions.


49 posted on 06/23/2014 11:37:53 AM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: Red Badger

All of this has happened before.
All of this will happen again.


50 posted on 06/23/2014 11:38:35 AM PDT by Sparklite
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To: Red Badger

Yesterday, all my photons seemed so far away..
Now it looks as though they’re here to stay


51 posted on 06/23/2014 11:38:36 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Hardastarboard

If you went back and killed baby Hitler, you’d be holding a dead baby with no way to prove why you killed a baby.


52 posted on 06/23/2014 11:40:18 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Billthedrill
It will become a reality, but not until AD 2634. I remember it well: that’s the year the Mariners finally won the World Series.

I tried punching "Cubs win World Series" into my time travel computer several times and kept winding up back in 1908.

53 posted on 06/23/2014 11:41:48 AM PDT by henkster (Do I really need a sarc tag?)
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To: Red Badger

http://youtu.be/rHIwEmKGWe8

Needs more phlogiston convertor...


54 posted on 06/23/2014 11:43:54 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (Tri nornar eg bir. Binde til rota...)
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To: TexasCajun
I’m guessing that confusing a Black Hole for a Worm Hole would not be a pleasant experience.

Hey! If you don't like the way I'm driving you take the wheel.

55 posted on 06/23/2014 11:49:20 AM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: henkster
A contribution to Art Bell "at the time"…
56 posted on 06/23/2014 11:54:40 AM PDT by mikrofon (Fyzx BUMP)
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To: TexasCajun

“I’m guessing that confusing a Black Hole for a Worm Hole would not be a pleasant experience.”

Wasn’t Dennis Rodman’s nickname “The Worm?”


57 posted on 06/23/2014 11:54:55 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Larry Lucido
If you went back and killed baby Hitler, you’d be holding a dead baby with no way to prove why you killed a baby.

If one were smart enough to travel back in time, and killed baby Hitler, one would also be smart enough to bring back proof of how dangerous that baby would be.
58 posted on 06/23/2014 11:57:22 AM PDT by adorno (Y)
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To: Axenolith

No. Every atom of your body, the chair you sit in, the building you are in, the planet you are on has been around, in some form or another since the beginning of time.
If you could send back or forward in time, a person or a paper clip, it doesn’t matter (pun), there would be the two copies of that same matter in existence at the same time, and that is essentially ‘creating’ matter where none existed...................


59 posted on 06/23/2014 12:01:43 PM PDT by Red Badger (I've posted a total of 2,735 threads and 84,728 replies, as of 06-20-2014)
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To: joethedrummer

You are travelling thru time, even as we speak...............


60 posted on 06/23/2014 12:02:40 PM PDT by Red Badger (I've posted a total of 2,735 threads and 84,728 replies, as of 06-20-2014)
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