{"id":99715,"date":"2019-12-13T12:45:18","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T20:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/paradox-free-time-travel-possible-with-many-parallel-universes"},"modified":"2019-12-13T12:45:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T20:45:18","slug":"paradox-free-time-travel-possible-with-many-parallel-universes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/paradox-free-time-travel-possible-with-many-parallel-universes","title":{"rendered":"Paradox-Free Time Travel Possible With Many Parallel Universes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/paradox-free-time-travel-possible-with-many-parallel-universes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you were to travel back in time to kill your grandparents \u2014 let\u2019s ignore the \u2018why\u2019 here, for the sake of argument \u2014 you would never have been born. Which means there was nobody to kill your grandparents. Which means you were actually born after all, which\u2026 hold up, what\u2019s going on here?!<\/p>\n<p>These kinds of brain-breaking paradoxes have been puzzling us forever, inspiring stories ranging from \u201cBack to the Future\u201d to \u201cHot Tub Time Machine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2227304-time-travel-without-paradoxes-is-possible-with-many-parallel-timelines\/\"><em>New Scientist<\/em> reports<\/a> that physicists Barak Shoshany and Jacob Hauser from the Perimeter Institute in Canada have come up with an apparent solution to these types of paradoxes that requires a very large \u2014 but not necessarily infinite \u2014 number of parallel universes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were to travel back in time to kill your grandparents \u2014 let\u2019s ignore the \u2018why\u2019 here, for the sake of argument \u2014 you would never have been born. Which means there was nobody to kill your grandparents. Which means you were actually born after all, which\u2026 hold up, what\u2019s going on here?! These [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219,1515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99715","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\/99715","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}