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Is Time Travel Even Possible?

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May 15, 2023
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Time Dilation as Future Travel

  • According to Einstein's special relativity, moving close to light speed slows your time relative to someone stationary.
  • This means traveling at near light speed could let you journey into the future faster than others.
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Wormholes Could Enable Time Travel

  • Time is another dimension like space, and physics suggests we can move through it.
  • Wormholes, predicted by general relativity, could connect distant space points and potentially different times.
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Wormholes' Practical Challenges

  • Wormholes lack evidence and require negative energy to keep open, which we have also never observed.
  • Traveling back in time with wormholes would need extreme conditions like near black holes or near light speed.
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