{"id":140909,"date":"2022-06-21T16:22:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T21:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/can-wormholes-act-like-time-machines"},"modified":"2022-06-21T16:22:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T21:22:48","slug":"can-wormholes-act-like-time-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/can-wormholes-act-like-time-machines","title":{"rendered":"Can wormholes act like time machines?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V9Id-Ayy12g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Time travel into the past is a tricky thing. We know of no single law of physics that absolutely forbids it, and yet we can\u2019t find a way to do it, and if we could do it, the possibility opens up all sorts of uncomfortable paradoxes (like what would happen if you killed your own grandfather).<\/p>\n<p>But there could be a way to do it. We just need to find a wormhole first.<\/p>\n<p>Wormholes are shortcuts through space, a tunnel that connects two distant parts of the universe through a very short path. If you could somehow construct a wormhole, you can casually walk down through the tunnel and end up thousands of light years away <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/142655\/the-most-efficient-way-to-explore-the-entire-milky-way-star-by-star\/\">without even breaking a sweat<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time travel into the past is a tricky thing. We know of no single law of physics that absolutely forbids it, and yet we can\u2019t find a way to do it, and if we could do it, the possibility opens up all sorts of uncomfortable paradoxes (like what would happen if you killed your own [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219,1515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics","category-time-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140909","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}