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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ditto that!
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.
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.
It is, and we did, but all the people who knew about it left.
What do we need! Time travel!! When do we want it? It’s irrelevant!
“Angels and ministers of grace, defend us!”
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...
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.
No, you would only be changing the location of the mass with respect to it’s location in 4 dimensions.
All of this has happened before.
All of this will happen again.
Yesterday, all my photons seemed so far away..
Now it looks as though they’re here to stay
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.
I tried punching "Cubs win World Series" into my time travel computer several times and kept winding up back in 1908.
Hey! If you don't like the way I'm driving you take the wheel.
“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?”
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...................
You are travelling thru time, even as we speak...............
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