Time travel without grandpa-killing paradoxes
JUL 21, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024515
Wired : Einstein’s general relativity and other physics theories don’t explicitly rule out time travel. But any time traveler must confront one of the constraints that Einstein evoked to derive relativity: An effect cannot take place before its cause—or, more concretely, you cannot travel back in time and kill grandpa and your other progenitors. Wired‘s Laura Sanders describes a theory by MIT’s Seth Lloyd and his collaborators that allows time travel and prevents grandpa killing but at the cost of amplifying the probability of unlikely events.
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