{"id":49,"date":"2026-05-12T12:56:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.astro.channelznow.com\/?p=49"},"modified":"2026-05-12T12:56:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:56:37","slug":"australian-physicists-proved-taht-time-travel-is-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astro.channelznow.com\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"AUSTRALIAN PHYSICISTS PROVED TAHT TIME TRAVEL IS POSSIBLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"f583b153867ec817cee43cc2e06488e0\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/securepubads.g.doubleclick.net\/tag\/js\/gpt.js\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<script>\r\n  window.googletag = window.googletag || {cmd: []};\r\n  googletag.cmd.push(function() {\r\n    googletag.defineSlot('\/23139468970\/A1300x250', [300, 250], 'div-gpt-ad-1778402115208-0').addService(googletag.pubads());\r\n    googletag.pubads().enableSingleRequest();\r\n    googletag.enableServices();\r\n  });\r\n<\/script>\r\n<!-- \/23139468970\/A1300x250 -->\r\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1778402115208-0' style='min-width: 300px; min-height: 250px;'>\r\n  <script>\r\n    googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1778402115208-0'); });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiawAWUVFKotzGLGaZXiQWeT5VMV9oimiC4EfY4-nmJM-pkh9aMYCxNLU5SnJObVtrYKu_hIr2nH9isKj1JTLKtDnEHbiY6da81Hp0V4TEXjp5YMVjOBt8Ve8PGypyNNsJFIMbvX4VUvnZr\/s580\/loop-580x385.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiawAWUVFKotzGLGaZXiQWeT5VMV9oimiC4EfY4-nmJM-pkh9aMYCxNLU5SnJObVtrYKu_hIr2nH9isKj1JTLKtDnEHbiY6da81Hp0V4TEXjp5YMVjOBt8Ve8PGypyNNsJFIMbvX4VUvnZr\/w640-h424\/loop-580x385.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"385\" data-original-width=\"580\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre id=\"tw-target-text\" class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\"><span lang=\"en\">University of Queensland scientists used photons (single light particles) to simulate <\/span><\/pre>\n<div class=\"separator\">\n<pre id=\"tw-target-text\" class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\"><span lang=\"en\">time-traveling quantum particles. Research is at the forefront and the results could <\/span><\/pre>\n<pre id=\"tw-target-text\" class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\"><span lang=\"en\">be dramatic!\r\n\r\nTheir research, titled \"Experimental Simulation of Closed Time Curves\", is published <\/span><\/pre>\n<pre id=\"tw-target-text\" class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\"><span lang=\"en\">in the latest issue of Nature Communications. The grandfather paradox states that if <\/span><\/pre>\n<pre id=\"tw-target-text\" class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\"><span lang=\"en\">a time traveler goes back in time, it could accidentally prevent his grandparents <\/span><\/pre>\n<pre id=\"tw-target-text\" class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\"><span lang=\"en\">from meeting, and thus prevent his birth.\r\n\r\nHowever, if he had never been born, he would never have been able to travel back in <\/span><\/pre>\n<pre id=\"tw-target-text\" class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\"><span lang=\"en\">time in the first place. The paradoxes are largely caused by Einstein's theory of <\/span><\/pre>\n<pre id=\"tw-target-text\" class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\"><span lang=\"en\">relativity and its solution, the G\u00f6del metric.\r\n\r\nHow relativity works Einstein's theory of relativity has two parts: general relativity<\/span><\/pre>\n<pre id=\"tw-target-text\" class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\"><span lang=\"en\">and <\/span>special relativity. Special relativity assumes that space and time are aspects of<\/pre>\n<pre id=\"tw-target-text\" class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\">the same thing, known as space-time continuum, and that time can slow down or speed<\/pre>\n<pre id=\"tw-target-text\" class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\">up, depending on how fast you are moving, compared to something else.<\/pre>\n<pre id=\"tw-target-text\" class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\"><span lang=\"en\">\r\n\r\nGravity can also bend time, and Einstein's theory of general relativity suggests <\/span><\/pre>\n<pre id=\"tw-target-text\" class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\"><span lang=\"en\">that it would be possible to travel back in time following a space-time path, that <\/span><\/pre>\n<pre id=\"tw-target-text\" class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\"><span lang=\"en\">is, a closed time curve that returns to the starting point in space, but arrives at a <\/span><\/pre>\n<pre id=\"tw-target-text\" class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\"><span lang=\"en\">precedent time.\r\n\r\nIn 1991, quantum mechanics was expected to avoid some of the paradoxes caused by <\/span><\/pre>\n<pre id=\"tw-target-text\" class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\"><span lang=\"en\">Einstein's theory of relativity, since quantum particles behave almost outside the <\/span><\/pre>\n<pre id=\"tw-target-text\" class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\"><span lang=\"en\">realm of physics.\r\n\r\n\"The issue of time travel is present at the interface between two of our most <\/span><\/pre>\n<pre id=\"tw-target-text\" class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\"><span lang=\"en\">successful but incompatible physical theories: Einstein's general relativity and <\/span><\/pre>\n<pre id=\"tw-target-text\" class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\"><span lang=\"en\">quantum mechanics,\" said Martin Ringbauer, a doctoral student at the School of <\/span><\/pre>\n<pre id=\"tw-target-text\" class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\"><span lang=\"en\">Mathematics and Physics of UQ and main author of the article.<\/span><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; University of Queensland scientists used photons (single light particles) to simulate time-traveling quantum particles. Research is at the forefront and the results could be dramatic! Their research, titled &#8220;Experimental Simulation of Closed Time Curves&#8221;, is published in the latest issue of Nature Communications. 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