{"id":56907,"date":"2017-04-28T06:02:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T13:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/physicists-just-came-up-with-a-mathematical-model-for-a-viable-time-machine"},"modified":"2017-04-28T06:02:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T13:02:32","slug":"physicists-just-came-up-with-a-mathematical-model-for-a-viable-time-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/physicists-just-came-up-with-a-mathematical-model-for-a-viable-time-machine","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Just Came Up With a Mathematical Model for a Viable Time Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-just-came-up-with-a-mathematical-model-for-a-viable-time-machine.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists have come up with what they claim is a mathematical model of a theoretical <a href=\"http:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.1088\/1361-6382\/aa6549\/meta;jsessionid=F0836BB9CB9CAE5578D9E6B7E07F4CF5.c1.iopscience.cld.iop.org\">\u201ctime machine\u201d<\/a> \u2014 a box that can move backwards and forwards through time and space.<\/p>\n<p>The trick, they say, is to use the curvature of space-time in the Universe to bend time into a circle for hypothetical passengers sitting in the box, and that circle allows them to skip into the future and the past.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople think of time travel as something as fiction. And we tend to think it\u2019s not possible because we don\u2019t actually do it,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-04-math-possibility.html\">says theoretical physicist and mathematician, Ben Tippett<\/a>, from the University of British Columbia in Canada.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicists-just-came-up-with-a-mathematical-model-for-a-viable-time-machine\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicists-just-came-up-with-a-m...me-machine<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists have come up with what they claim is a mathematical model of a theoretical \u201ctime machine\u201d \u2014 a box that can move backwards and forwards through time and space. The trick, they say, is to use the curvature of space-time in the Universe to bend time into a circle for hypothetical passengers sitting in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,219,1515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-physics","category-time-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56907","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=56907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}