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A common theme in science fiction media, time travel is captivating. It's defined by the late philosopher David Lewis in his essay "The Paradoxes of Time Travel" as "[involving] a discrepancy between time and space time. Any traveler departs and then arrives at his destination; the time elapsed from departure to arrival ... is the duration of the journey."

Time travel is usually understood by most as going back to a bygone era or jumping forward to a point in the future. But how much of the idea is based in reality? Is it possible to travel through time?

Is time travel possible?

According to NASA, time travel is possible, just not in the way you might expect. Albert Einstein's theory of relativity says time and motion are relative to each other, and nothing can go faster than the speed of light, which is 186,000 miles per second. Time travel happens through what's called "time dilation."

Time dilation, according to Live Science, is how one's perception of time is different to another, depending on their motion or where they are. Hence, time being relative.

Dr. Ana Alonso-Serrano, a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Germany, explained the possibility of time travel and how researchers test theories.

Space and time are not absolute values, Alonso-Serrano said. And what makes this all more complex is that you are able to carve spacetime.

"In the moment that you carve the spacetime, you can play with that curvature to make the time come in a circle and make a time machine," Alonso-Serrano told USA TODAY.
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She explained how theoretically, time travel is possible. The mathematics behind creating curvature of spacetime are solid but trying to recreate the strict physical conditions needed to prove these theories can be challenging.

"The tricky point of that is if you can find a physical, realistic, way to do it," she said.

Alonso-Serrano said wormholes and warp drives are tools that are used to create this curvature. The matter needed to achieve curving spacetime via a wormhole is exotic matter, which hasn't been done successfully. Researchers don't even know if this type of matter exists, she said.

"It's something that we work on because it's theoretically possible, and because it's a very nice way to test our theory, to look for possible paradoxes," Alonso-Serrano added.

Outside of the methods mentioned above, Alonso-Serrano isn't sure of other methods in which time travel.

"I could not say that nothing is possible, but I cannot ignore the possibility," she said.

She also mentioned the anecdote of Stephen Hawking's champagne party for time travelers, where Hawking had a GPS-specific location for the party. He didn't send out invites until the party had already happened so only people that could travel to the past would be able to attend. No one showed up and Hawking referred to this event as "experimental evidence" that time travel wasn't possible.

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Is time travel possible? Sort of. Here's the science behind it.

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A common theme in science fiction media, time travel is captivating. It's defined by the late philosopher David Lewis in his essay "The Paradoxes of Time Travel" as "[involving] a discrepancy between time and space time. Any traveler departs and then arrives at his destination; the time elapsed from departure to arrival ...

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Time Travel: Theories, Paradoxes & Possibilities

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Science says time travel is possible, but probably not in the way you’re thinking.

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The ability to travel through time, whether it is to fix a mistake in the past or gain insight into the future, has long been embraced by science fiction and debated by theoretical physicists. While the debate continues over whether travelling into the past is possible, physicists have determined that travelling to the future most certainly is. And you don't need a wormhole or a DeLorean to do it.

Real-life time travel occurs through time dilation, a property of Einstein's special relativity. Einstein was the first to realize that time is not constant, as previously believed, but instead slows down as you move faster through space.

As part of his theory, Einstein re-envisioned space itself. He coined the phrase "spacetime," fusing the three dimensions of space and one dimension of time into a single term. Instead of treating space as a flat and rigid place that holds all the objects in the universe, Einstein thought of it as curved and malleable, able to form gravitational dips around masses that pull other objects in, just as a bowling ball placed in the centre of a trampoline would cause any smaller object placed on the trampoline to slide towards the centre.

The closer an object gets to the centre of the dip, the faster it accelerates. The centre of the Earth's gravitational dip is located at the Earth's core, where gravitational acceleration is strongest. According to Einstein's theory, because time moves more slowly as you move faster through space, the closer an object is to the centre of the Earth, the slower time moves for that object.

This effect can be seen in GPS satellites, which orbit 20,200 kilometres above the Earth's surface. These satellites have highly precise clocks onboard that gain an average of 38 microseconds per day due to time dilation. While this time gain seems insignificant, GPS satellites rely on their onboard clocks to maintain precise global positioning. Running 38 microseconds fast would result in a positioning error of nearly 10 kilometres, an error that would increase daily if the time difference were not constantly corrected.

A more dramatic example of time dilation can be seen in the movie Interstellar when Matthew McConaughey and his crew land on a planet with an extreme gravitational field caused by a nearby black hole. Because of the black hole's intense gravitational influence, time slows dramatically for the crew on the planet, making one hour on the surface equal to seven years on Earth. This is why, when the crew returns to Earth, Matthew McConaughey's daughter is an old woman while he appears to be the same age as when he left.

So why hasn't humanity succeeded in making such drastic leaps forward in time? The answer to this question comes down to velocity. In order for humanity to send a traveller years into the future, we would either have to take advantage of the intense gravitational acceleration caused by black holes or send the traveller rocketing into space at close to the speed of light (about 1 billion km/h). With our current technology, jumping a few microseconds into the future is all humans can manage.

But if technology one day allows us to send a human into the future by travelling close to the speed of light, would there be any way for the traveller to use time dilation to return to the past and report her findings? "Interstellar travel reaching close to the speed of light might be possible," says Dr. Jaymie Matthews, professor of astrophysics at the University of British Columbia, "[but] this voyage is one way - into the future, not back to the past."

If we can't use time dilation to return to the past, does this mean that the past is forever inaccessible? Perhaps not. Einstein proposed that time travel into the past could be achieved through an Einstein-Rosen bridge, a type of wormhole. Wormholes are theoretical areas of spacetime that are warped in a way that connects two distant points in space.

Einstein's equations suggested that this bridge in space could hypothetically connect two points in time instead if it were stable enough. "At the moment, even an Einstein-Rosen bridge cannot [be used to] go back in the past because it doesn't live long enough - it is not stable," Matthews explains.

"Even if it was stable, it [requires] other physics, which we don't have. Hypothetical particles and states of matter that have "exotic" physical properties that would violate known laws of physics, such as a particle having a negative mass. That is why "wormholes" are only science fiction."

While it would be fascinating to travel back in time to see the dinosaurs or to meet Albert Einstein and show him the reality of time travel, perhaps it is best if the past remains untouched. Travelling to the past invites the possibility of making an alteration that could destroy the future. For example, in Back to the Future, Marty McFly travels to the past and inadvertently prevents his parents from meeting each other, nearly preventing his own existence. But if he had undone his own existence, how could he have travelled back in time in the first place?

Marty's adventures are a variation of the grandfather paradox: what happens if you go back in time and kill your grandfather before your father is conceived? If you are successful, how is it possible that you're alive to kill your grandfather in the first place?

A recent study at the University of Queensland may have the answer to this baffling paradox. In this study, the researchers prove mathematically that paradox-free time travel is possible, showing that the universe will self-correct to avoid inconsistencies. If this is true, then even if we could travel back in time, we would never be able to alter events to create a different future.

While these new findings are enlightening, there appears to be more evidence that, although time dilation can allow us to glimpse the future, we will never be able to visit the past. As the late Stephen Hawking said in his book Black Holes and Baby Universes, "The best evidence we have that time travel [into the past] is not possible, and never will be, is that we have not been invaded by hordes of tourists from the future."

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