{"id":140910,"date":"2022-06-21T16:22:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T21:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/researcher-uses-math-to-investigate-possibility-of-time-travel"},"modified":"2022-06-21T16:22:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T21:22:58","slug":"researcher-uses-math-to-investigate-possibility-of-time-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/researcher-uses-math-to-investigate-possibility-of-time-travel","title":{"rendered":"Researcher uses math to investigate possibility of time travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researcher-uses-math-to-investigate-possibility-of-time-travel2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After some serious number crunching, a UBC researcher has come up with a mathematical model for a viable time machine.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Tippett, a mathematics and physics instructor at UBC\u2019s Okanagan campus, recently published a study about the feasibility of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/time+travel\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">time travel<\/a>. Tippett, whose field of expertise is Einstein\u2019s theory of general relativity, studies black holes and science fiction when he\u2019s not teaching. Using math and physics, he has created a formula that describes a method for time travel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople think of time travel as something as fiction,\u201d says Tippett. \u201cAnd we tend to think it\u2019s not possible because we don\u2019t actually do it. But, mathematically, it is possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After some serious number crunching, a UBC researcher has come up with a mathematical model for a viable time machine. Ben Tippett, a mathematics and physics instructor at UBC\u2019s Okanagan campus, recently published a study about the feasibility of time travel. Tippett, whose field of expertise is Einstein\u2019s theory of general relativity, studies black holes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,32,2229,219,1515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-education","category-mathematics","category-physics","category-time-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140910","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=140910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}