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How time travel could work: Scientists have uncovered a way to send messages into the past
MSN.com ^ | 5/1/26 | Wiliam Hunter

Posted on 05/05/2026 4:56:22 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda

How time travel could work: Scientists have uncovered a way to send messages into the past

Time machines may seem better suited to science fiction than the physics lab, but experts say this futuristic technology could become a reality.

Researchers have revealed how time travel could really work by using the laws of quantum physics.

While their method won't let you hop back to the time of the dinosaurs, scientists say it could be possible to send messages into the past.

The researchers even say this mind–bending technique would work just like in Christopher Nolan's sci–fi epic, Interstellar.

In the movie, an astronaut played by Matthew McConaughey sends a message to his daughter in the past by moving the hands on her watch.

Although the reality wouldn't be so cinematic, the researchers argue that this 'causal loop' resembles the way real time travel would work.

Co–author Dr Kaiyuan Ji, a researcher at Cornell University, told New Scientist: 'The father remembers how the daughter decodes his future message.

'So he can instruct himself on what is the best way to encode the message.'

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Chit/Chat; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; ohhelpmerhonda; physics; quantummechanics; science; stringtheory; teleportation; time
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Then shouldn’t the first step be HOW TO READ THEM? We might already be sending them!!


61 posted on 05/05/2026 8:23:20 PM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Back to 1977, buy Apple stock


62 posted on 05/05/2026 8:40:36 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (“I don't really care, Margaret.””)
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63 posted on 05/05/2026 9:01:08 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Time and space are illusion. Rule # 1. Everywhere you go, no matter which way you turn. There you are.


64 posted on 05/05/2026 10:25:13 PM PDT by Equine1952 (MM1SS SASOBe)
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65 posted on 05/05/2026 11:21:26 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
"How time travel could work: Scientists have uncovered a way to send messages into the past

Just what we needed, junk mail from the future.
66 posted on 05/05/2026 11:35:01 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: Equine1952
Precisely! 👍

67 posted on 05/05/2026 11:58:19 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: algore
[4] He regarded the event as “experimental evidence that time travel is not possible”.

On Jan. 1, I likewise sent an invitation to President Trump to attend my party, held on Jan. 30. He didn't come - so I suppose that that also constitutes "experimental evidence" that Trump is unable to attend parties?

Regards,

68 posted on 05/06/2026 1:13:02 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

It seems evident How would you know you’re not back there, if you’re here? Yada yada yada. If you’re not here or there? WTFAY. I think if you don’t want to be where you are at. You’re FU. Because you know “no matter where you are, everywhere you turn there you are”.


69 posted on 05/06/2026 1:46:57 AM PDT by Equine1952 (MM1SS SASOBe)
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To: ansel12

I had a message from myself in the future, as well. It said; “ You dumbass”. Don’t ask….


70 posted on 05/06/2026 6:27:55 AM PDT by telescope115 (Ad Astra, Ad Deum…)
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To: Equine1952

I think I reached my message limit on WTF were you thinking notes to myself.


71 posted on 05/06/2026 6:33:59 AM PDT by freefdny
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To: telescope115

Every page of my diary starts with that same description.


72 posted on 05/06/2026 6:37:22 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Send a message to 1990… “ Don’t buy Betamax”


73 posted on 05/06/2026 9:22:55 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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