{"id":110675,"date":"2020-07-31T05:53:22","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T12:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/time-travel-simulation-shows-quantum-butterfly-effect-doesnt-exist"},"modified":"2020-07-31T05:53:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T12:53:22","slug":"time-travel-simulation-shows-quantum-butterfly-effect-doesnt-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/time-travel-simulation-shows-quantum-butterfly-effect-doesnt-exist","title":{"rendered":"Time Travel Simulation Shows Quantum \u2018Butterfly Effect\u2019 Doesn\u2019t Exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/time-travel-simulation-shows-quantum-butterfly-effect-doesnt-exist3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the story \u2013 our protagonist rewinds history, locates baby Hitler, and averts global war by putting him on a path to peace \u2026 but, oh noes! This sets off a domino chain of events that stops our hero from being born, or worse, kicks off the apocalypse.<\/p>\n<p>Unintended \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Butterfly_effect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">butterfly effect<\/a>\u2019-style consequences of time travel might be a juicy problem in science fiction, but physicists now have reason to believe in a quantum landscape, tweaking history in this way shouldn\u2019t be a major problem.<\/p>\n<p>Since going back to a previous moment in time is still in the \u2018too hard\u2019 basket, a pair of physicists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US went with the next best thing and created a simulation using an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/ibm-is-rolling-out-the-world-s-first-universal-quantum-computing-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IBM-Q quantum computer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s the story \u2013 our protagonist rewinds history, locates baby Hitler, and averts global war by putting him on a path to peace \u2026 but, oh noes! This sets off a domino chain of events that stops our hero from being born, or worse, kicks off the apocalypse. Unintended \u2018butterfly effect\u2019-style consequences of time travel [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617,1515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics","category-time-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}