{"id":76294,"date":"2018-02-24T16:02:36","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T00:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/physicists-have-confirmed-a-pear-shaped-nucleus-and-it-could-ruin-time-travel-forever"},"modified":"2018-02-25T11:02:10","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T19:02:10","slug":"physicists-have-confirmed-a-pear-shaped-nucleus-and-it-could-ruin-time-travel-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/physicists-have-confirmed-a-pear-shaped-nucleus-and-it-could-ruin-time-travel-forever","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Have Confirmed a Pear-Shaped Nucleus, And It Could Ruin Time Travel Forever"},"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\/FflcA85zcOM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Physicists have confirmed the existence of a new form of atomic nuclei, and the fact that it\u2019s not symmetrical challenges the fundamental theories of physics that explain our Universe.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s not as bad as it sounds, because the 2016 discovery could help scientists solve one of the biggest mysteries in theoretical physics \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/how-we-recreated-the-early-universe-in-the-laboratory\">where is all the dark matter?<\/a> \u2014 and could also explain why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/watch-3-simple-ways-to-time-travel\">travelling backwards in time<\/a> might actually be impossible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve found these nuclei literally point towards a direction in space. This relates to a direction in time, proving there\u2019s a well-defined direction in time and we will always travel from past to present,\u201d Marcus Scheck from the University of the West of Scotland <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-scotland-36597142?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link\">told Kenneth MacDonald at BBC News at the time.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicists-discover-brand-new-nucleus-shape-time-travel-not-possible\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicists-discover-brand-new-n...t-possible<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists have confirmed the existence of a new form of atomic nuclei, and the fact that it\u2019s not symmetrical challenges the fundamental theories of physics that explain our Universe. But that\u2019s not as bad as it sounds, because the 2016 discovery could help scientists solve one of the biggest mysteries in theoretical physics \u2014 where [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219,1514,1515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics","category-space-travel","category-time-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76294","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76318,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76294\/revisions\/76318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}