{"id":22488,"date":"2016-02-21T11:48:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T19:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/hold-up-did-we-just-crack-time-travel"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:09:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:09:36","slug":"hold-up-did-we-just-crack-time-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/hold-up-did-we-just-crack-time-travel","title":{"rendered":"Hold Up, Did We Just Crack Time Travel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hold-up-did-we-just-crack-time-travel.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astrophysicists famously proved Einstein\u2019s theory on the existence of gravitational waves last week. Here\u2019s the less covered part of it all: It might, down the line, bring us closer to moving through time.<\/p>\n<p>A now-famous team of astrophysicists shocked the world Thursday after recording the gravitational waves of two black holes slamming into each other 1.3 billion light-years away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ligo.caltech.edu\/detection\" target=\"_blank\">This detection<\/a> supports Einstein\u2019s general theory of relativity in a way that revolutionizes scientific understanding of how space and time behave in extreme environments, and astrophysics will never be the same.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2016\/02\/15\/hold-up-did-we-just-crack-time-travel.html?source=TDB&via=FB_Page\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astrophysicists famously proved Einstein\u2019s theory on the existence of gravitational waves last week. Here\u2019s the less covered part of it all: It might, down the line, bring us closer to moving through time. A now-famous team of astrophysicists shocked the world Thursday after recording the gravitational waves of two black holes slamming into each other [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219,1515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics","category-time-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22488","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68319,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22488\/revisions\/68319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}