{"id":236450,"date":"2026-05-04T02:04:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T07:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/something-disturbing-happens-when-you-solve-einsteins-equations-this-way"},"modified":"2026-05-04T02:04:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T07:04:43","slug":"something-disturbing-happens-when-you-solve-einsteins-equations-this-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/something-disturbing-happens-when-you-solve-einsteins-equations-this-way","title":{"rendered":"Something Disturbing Happens When You Solve Einstein\u2019s Equations This Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dZaqLgezRNE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Check out the Universe in a Black Hole Merch at the Space Time Merch Store<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbsspacetime.com\/shop\">https:\/\/www.pbsspacetime.com\/shop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kurt G\u00f6del discovered a solution to General Relativity that allows time travel without any exotic physics, revealing that the theory doesn\u2019t actually guarantee a consistent chain of cause and effect. His \u201cG\u00f6del universe\u201d shows that under certain conditions, the structure of spacetime itself can loop back on itself\u2014blurring the line between past and future and exposing a deep limitation in our understanding of reality.<\/p>\n<p>Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord!<br \/> \/ pbsspacetime.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the mailing list to get episode notifications and hear special announcements!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/1a6eb8f2717d\/space\">https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/1a6eb8f2717d\/space<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Search the Entire Space Time Library Here: <a href=\"https:\/\/search.pbsspacetime.com\/\">https:\/\/search.pbsspacetime.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hosted by matt o\u2019dowd written by matt o\u2019dowd post production by leonardo scholzer directed by andrew kornhaber associate producer: bahar gholipour executive producer: andrew kornhaber executive in charge for PBS: maribel lopez director of programming for PBS: gabrielle ewing assistant director of programming for PBS: mike martin.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/something-disturbing-happens-when-you-solve-einsteins-equations-this-way\">Continue reading \u201cSomething Disturbing Happens When You Solve Einstein\u2019s Equations This Way\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the Universe in a Black Hole Merch at the Space Time Merch Store https:\/\/www.pbsspacetime.com\/shop. Kurt G\u00f6del discovered a solution to General Relativity that allows time travel without any exotic physics, revealing that the theory doesn\u2019t actually guarantee a consistent chain of cause and effect. His \u201cG\u00f6del universe\u201d shows that under certain conditions, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,41,219,1514,1515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-information-science","category-physics","category-space-travel","category-time-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236450","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}