{"id":25760,"date":"2016-05-15T01:47:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T08:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/wormholes-could-be-the-key-to-beating-the-heisenbergs-uncertainty-principle-say-physicists"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:59:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:59:28","slug":"wormholes-could-be-the-key-to-beating-the-heisenbergs-uncertainty-principle-say-physicists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/wormholes-could-be-the-key-to-beating-the-heisenbergs-uncertainty-principle-say-physicists","title":{"rendered":"Wormholes could be the key to beating the Heisenberg\u2019s uncertainty principle, say physicists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wormholes-could-be-the-key-to-beating-the-heisenbergs-uncertainty-principle-say-physicists.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Time travel seems much more common in science fiction than it is in reality. We\u2019ve never met anyone from the future, after all. But all of the physics we know indicates that wormholes \u2014 another science fiction favourite \u2014 could really be used to travel backwards in time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/npjqi20157\">And according to a paper<\/a> by Chinese physicists, using wormholes for time travel might actually allow us to beat Heisenberg\u2019s uncertainty principle \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2013\/nov\/10\/what-is-heisenbergs-uncertainty-principle\">described as<\/a> one of the most famous (and probably misunderstood) ideas in physics \u2014 and even to solve some of the most difficult problems in computer science.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-magnetic-wormhole-that-connects-two-regions-of-space-has-been-created-for-the-first-time\">Wormholes<\/a> are like portals between two places in the Universe. If you fell in one side, you\u2019d pop out the other immediately, regardless of how far apart the two sides were. But wormholes are also like portals between two <em>times<\/em> in the Universe. As Carl Sagan liked to say, you wouldn\u2019t just emerge some <em>where<\/em> else in space, but also <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=_-XhL6_xsVkC&pg=PA198&lpg=PA198&dq=somewhen+else+in+time+carl+sagan&source=bl&ots=pgzztcnFaC&sig=BdbcHRkYkTqti5lSdJaZCQg-Zwk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiAnsbv9NTMAhWFoD4KHau7AZwQ6AEIJzAC#v=onepage&q=somewhen%20else%20in%20time%20carl%20sagan&f=false\">some <em>when<\/em> else in time.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicists-could-use-wormholes-to-beat-the-uncertainty-principle-and-it-might-help-solve-some-of-computer-science-s-most-intractable-problems-time-travel-seems-much-more-common-in-science-fiction-than-in-reality-we-ve-never-seen-anyone-from\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicists-could-use-wormholes-t...nyone-from<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time travel seems much more common in science fiction than it is in reality. We\u2019ve never met anyone from the future, after all. But all of the physics we know indicates that wormholes \u2014 another science fiction favourite \u2014 could really be used to travel backwards in time. And according to a paper by Chinese [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,219,8,1515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-physics","category-space","category-time-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25760","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=25760"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67490,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25760\/revisions\/67490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}