{"id":118894,"date":"2021-01-26T14:23:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T22:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/a-physicist-has-worked-out-the-math-that-makes-paradox-free-time-travel-plausible"},"modified":"2021-01-26T14:23:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T22:23:13","slug":"a-physicist-has-worked-out-the-math-that-makes-paradox-free-time-travel-plausible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/a-physicist-has-worked-out-the-math-that-makes-paradox-free-time-travel-plausible","title":{"rendered":"A Physicist Has Worked Out The Math That Makes \u2018Paradox-Free\u2019 Time Travel Plausible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-physicist-has-worked-out-the-math-that-makes-paradox-free-time-travel-plausible2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No one has yet managed to travel through time \u2013 at least to our knowledge \u2013 but the question of whether or not such a feat would be theoretically possible continues to fascinate scientists.<\/p>\n<p>As movies such as <em>The Terminator<\/em>, <em>Donnie Darko<\/em>, <em>Back to the Future<\/em> and many others show, moving around in time creates a lot of problems for the fundamental rules of the Universe: if you go back in time and stop your parents from meeting, for instance, how can you possibly exist in order to go back in time in the first place?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a monumental head-scratcher known as the \u2018grandfather paradox\u2019, but in September last year a physics student Germain Tobar, from the University of Queensland in Australia, said he has worked out how to \u201csquare the numbers\u201d to make time travel viable without the paradoxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one has yet managed to travel through time \u2013 at least to our knowledge \u2013 but the question of whether or not such a feat would be theoretically possible continues to fascinate scientists. As movies such as The Terminator, Donnie Darko, Back to the Future and many others show, moving around in time creates [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,219,8,1515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-physics","category-space","category-time-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118894","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}