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Monday, September 28, 2020

University of Queensland, Australia - A Physicist Has Come Up With Math That Makes 'Paradox-Free' Time Travel Plausible

Title:
A Physicist Has Come Up With Math That Makes 'Paradox-Free' Time Travel Plausible
 
Author:
David Nield
 
Published:
Science Alert, 26 September 2020
 
From the article:
As movies such as The Terminator, Donnie Darko, Back to the Future and many others show, moving around in time creates a lot of problems for the fundamental rules of the Universe: if you go back in time and stop your parents from meeting, for instance, how can you possibly exist in order to go back in time in the first place?
 
It's a monumental head-scratcher known as the 'grandfather paradox', but now a physics student Germain Tobar, from the University of Queensland in Australia, says he has worked out how to "square the numbers" to make time travel viable without the paradoxes.