{"id":167625,"date":"2023-07-15T18:23:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T23:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/physicists-just-figured-out-how-wormholes-could-enable-time-travel"},"modified":"2023-07-15T18:23:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T23:23:52","slug":"physicists-just-figured-out-how-wormholes-could-enable-time-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/physicists-just-figured-out-how-wormholes-could-enable-time-travel","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Just Figured Out How Wormholes Could Enable Time Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-just-figured-out-how-wormholes-could-enable-time-travel2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Theoretical physicists have a lot in common with lawyers. Both spend a lot of time looking for loopholes and inconsistencies in the rules that might be exploited somehow.<\/p>\n<p>Valeri P. Frolov and Andrei Zelnikov from the University of Alberta in Canada and Pavel Krtou\u0161 from Charles University in Prague probably couldn\u2019t get you out of a traffic fine, but they may have uncovered enough wiggle room in the laws of physics to send you back in time to make sure you didn\u2019t speed through that school zone in the first place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/wormholes-may-already-have-been-detected-physicists-say\">Shortcuts through spacetime<\/a> known as wormholes aren\u2019t recognized features of the cosmos. But for the better part of a century, scientists have wondered if the weft and warp instructed by relativity prescribe ways for quantum ripples \u2013 or even entire particles \u2013 to break free of their locality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theoretical physicists have a lot in common with lawyers. Both spend a lot of time looking for loopholes and inconsistencies in the rules that might be exploited somehow. Valeri P. Frolov and Andrei Zelnikov from the University of Alberta in Canada and Pavel Krtou\u0161 from Charles University in Prague probably couldn\u2019t get you out of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,32,48,1617,1515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-education","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics","category-time-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167625","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\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}