Time Travel Physics

Cluster focuses on debates about whether faster-than-light travel, closed timelike curves, or relativity enable time travel, including paradoxes, self-consistency principles, and impossibility arguments.

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erpa1119 Aug 25, 2012 View on HN

does this open the door to possibly traveling back in time?

steveklabnik Sep 15, 2018 View on HN

It's impossible to tell, as that can cause other issues. See the link I posted about time travel elsewhere in the thread.

HugoDaniel Apr 12, 2018 View on HN

Does this mean time travel is possible ?

pentabular Aug 24, 2014 View on HN

no such thing as backwards time travel, sorry!

mackman Dec 5, 2023 View on HN

Wouldn't that prevent time from going in reverse?

mrfusion Dec 15, 2021 View on HN

I think you’re describing this? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novikov_self-consistency_pri...

eyudkowsky Jul 13, 2008 View on HN

Only one-way interaction between different selves? And you call this time travel.

bookofjoe Feb 20, 2020 View on HN

"If time travel is possible, then there is no such thing as time."—Kurt Gödel

lucaspauker Oct 11, 2020 View on HN

You're right however this isn't possible with our current understanding of time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime

layer8 Jan 14, 2024 View on HN

FTL implies time travel. The into-the-past kind. Good luck with that.