{"id":174143,"date":"2023-10-13T23:22:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T04:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/time-travel-simulations-can-solve-impossible-problems-physicists-say"},"modified":"2023-10-13T23:22:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T04:22:56","slug":"time-travel-simulations-can-solve-impossible-problems-physicists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/time-travel-simulations-can-solve-impossible-problems-physicists-say","title":{"rendered":"Time Travel Simulations Can Solve Impossible Problems, Physicists Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/time-travel-simulations-can-solve-impossible-problems-physicists-say2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For most of us, the passage of time flies in just one inexorable direction.<\/p>\n<p>But for theoretical quantum physicists, time\u2019s direction isn\u2019t quite so inflexible. It\u2019s possible to theoretically model, simulate, and observe the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicists-have-reversed-time-on-the-smallest-scale-with-a-quantum-computer\">backwards flow of time<\/a> in ways that are impossible to achieve in the real world.<\/p>\n<p>And now, scientists have shown that simulations of backwards time travel can help solve physics problems that cannot be resolved with normal physics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most of us, the passage of time flies in just one inexorable direction. But for theoretical quantum physicists, time\u2019s direction isn\u2019t quite so inflexible. It\u2019s possible to theoretically model, simulate, and observe the backwards flow of time in ways that are impossible to achieve in the real world. And now, scientists have shown that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,1515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174143","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\/174143","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}