{"id":178477,"date":"2023-12-17T03:23:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T09:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/physicist-discovers-paradox-free-time-travel-is-theoretically-possible"},"modified":"2023-12-17T03:23:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T09:23:21","slug":"physicist-discovers-paradox-free-time-travel-is-theoretically-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/physicist-discovers-paradox-free-time-travel-is-theoretically-possible","title":{"rendered":"Physicist Discovers \u2018Paradox-Free\u2019 Time Travel Is Theoretically Possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicist-discovers-paradox-free-time-travel-is-theoretically-possible2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No one has yet managed to travel through time \u2013 at least to our knowledge \u2013 but the question of whether or not such a feat would be theoretically possible continues to fascinate scientists.<\/p>\n<p>As movies such as <em>The Terminator<\/em>, <em>Donnie Darko<\/em>, <em>Back to the Future<\/em> and many others show, moving around in time creates a lot of problems for the fundamental rules of the Universe: if you go back in time and stop your parents from meeting, for instance, how can you possibly exist in order to go back in time in the first place?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a monumental head-scratcher known as the \u2018grandfather paradox\u2019, but a few years ago physics student Germain Tobar, from the University of Queensland in Australia, worked out how to \u201csquare the numbers\u201d to make time travel viable without the paradoxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one has yet managed to travel through time \u2013 at least to our knowledge \u2013 but the question of whether or not such a feat would be theoretically possible continues to fascinate scientists. As movies such as The Terminator, Donnie Darko, Back to the Future and many others show, moving around in time creates [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8,1515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space","category-time-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178477","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}