{"id":12054,"date":"2014-08-31T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12054"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:12:26","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:12:26","slug":"what-sci-fi-movies-get-right-and-wrong-about-time-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/what-sci-fi-movies-get-right-and-wrong-about-time-travel","title":{"rendered":"What Sci-Fi Movies Get Right and Wrong About Time Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/authors.roxanne_palmer.html\">Roxanne Palmer<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/authors.julie_rossman.html\">Julie Rossman<\/a> \u2014 Slate<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"text-2 text parbase section\">In movies, time travel methods are mostly explained along the lines of \u201csomething something plutonium something wormhole.\u201d But physicists do have some idea of methods that might allow for actual time travel\u2014though they might not necessarily prevent you from killing your own grandfather.<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-3 text parbase section\">\n<p>One trope in time travel science fiction is slightly plausible, if physically impossible\u2014traveling faster than the speed of light. The crew of the <em>U.S.S. Enterprise<\/em> did this in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B000I3PA8Q\/?tag=lifeboatfound-20\" target=\"_blank\">Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home<\/a><\/em>, by using the sun\u2019s gravitational pull to accelerate their spaceship to super-light speed. If it were possible to travel faster than light (Einstein calculated it would take an infinite amount of power), it is theoretically possible <a href=\"https:\/\/einstein.stanford.edu\/content\/relativity\/q295.html\" target=\"_blank\">for signals to be sent back in time<\/a>; it\u2019s questionable if the same method could work with people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/future_tense\/2014\/07\/25\/sci_fi_movie_time_travel_time_line_with_terminator_back_to_the_future_and.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Roxanne Palmer and Julie Rossman \u2014 Slate In movies, time travel methods are mostly explained along the lines of \u201csomething something plutonium something wormhole.\u201d But physicists do have some idea of methods that might allow for actual time travel\u2014though they might not necessarily prevent you from killing your own grandfather. One trope in time [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-time-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12054","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46899,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12054\/revisions\/46899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}