{"id":174129,"date":"2023-10-13T21:22:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T02:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/scientists-successfully-simulate-backward-time-travel-with-a-25-chance-of-actually-changing-the-past"},"modified":"2023-10-13T21:22:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T02:22:24","slug":"scientists-successfully-simulate-backward-time-travel-with-a-25-chance-of-actually-changing-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/scientists-successfully-simulate-backward-time-travel-with-a-25-chance-of-actually-changing-the-past","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Successfully Simulate Backward Time Travel with a 25% Chance of Actually Changing the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-successfully-simulate-backward-time-travel-with-a-25-chance-of-actually-changing-the-past2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh boy. What could go wrong?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists trying to take advantage of the unusual properties of the quantum realm say they have successfully simulated a method of backward time travel that allowed them to change an event after the fact one out of four times. The Cambridge University team is quick to caution that they have built a time machine, per se, but also note how their process doesn\u2019t violate physics while changing past events after they have happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine that you want to send a gift to someone: you need to send it on day one to make sure it arrives on day three,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cam.ac.uk\/research\/news\/simulations-of-backwards-time-travel-can-improve-scientific-experiments\">explained<\/a> lead author David Arvidsson-Shukur from the Cambridge Hitachi Laboratory. \u201cHowever, you only receive that person\u2019s wish list on day two.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To respect the gift recipient\u2019s timeline, you would need to send it on day one. But, as Arvidsson-Shukur notes, you won\u2019t know what gift to send until later, meaning your gift will either be late or be wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh boy. What could go wrong? Scientists trying to take advantage of the unusual properties of the quantum realm say they have successfully simulated a method of backward time travel that allowed them to change an event after the fact one out of four times. The Cambridge University team is quick to caution that they [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":528,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,1515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-time-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174129","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\/528"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}