Time Travel to the Past?

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Logan Kent and Jim Kelly are from both Kansas cities, K.C. Mo andK.C. Kansas. Logan says the only real way to answer that question is to commit to a version of time travel to the past. And the version that I find most convincing involves wormholes. If you're in a wormhole and it's propped up nicely and it's safe for you, then you just move in through space backwards in time if the opening of that wormhole is near a black hole where time ticking more slowly than where you came from.

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