Time Travel Is Impossible? New Evidence Reveals Mind-blowing Theory
According to a recent write-up in Science Alert, time travel may truly be impossible to pull off. The long-studied but often-paradoxical field of science has often been explored through science fiction stories in film, television, and prose, with some of cinema’s greatest films delivering on the “what if” premise. The explanation that negates the possibility of time travel seems to lie in the exchange of light as it bends through time and space, preventing any meaningful interaction with the past or future.
Scientists have discovered going back in time will require going much faster than 88 MPH so that light will bend through bits of matter.
Light speed dictates that light particles are capable of covering precisely 299,792,458 meters per second. According to all known laws of science, the only way to have any impact on light speed is through electromagnetic waves, which bend light waves through bits of matter, allowing scientists to theoretically slow light speed to a crawl, relatively speaking. To effectively engage with time travel as depicted in fictional narratives would require a complete reconfiguration of light as we know it.
Proper time means that each wave travels at a fixed point of relativity, so seconds progressing on Earth may differ in length from seconds progressing nearer to the event horizon of a black hole.
The most generous reading of man’s ability to bend light can be seen in examples such as the separation of rainbow waves or bending concentrated light through lenses or water fractals. A team of physicists from Tampere University in Finland has theorized a method for sending human beings into space faster than the speed of light, though the study produced unfortunate results. Even if human beings could engage in time travel in a relative capacity, physicists have determined that physical waves are measured in units of so-called ‘proper time.’
Proper time means that each wave travels at a fixed point of relativity, so seconds progressing on Earth may differ in length from seconds progressing nearer to the event horizon of a black hole. Still, each has its strict temporal direction.
For instance, it has long been known that the pull of gravity affects time, meaning a person who spends an extended amount of time aboard airplanes may need to recalibrate an analog watch several times per year to readjust to the proper time of the Earth’s crust. However, this largely insignificant time dilation has no bearing on a person’s ability to slow or speed aging, nor on their ability to reverse time to impact the past.
Theoretically, if science could advance so far that human beings could travel to the furthest corners of the universe, Earth-bound researchers thousands of years in the future might be able to peer at them as they conduct a space walk using advanced telescopes.
The best example of this phenomenon is the ability to look into the distant past using telescopes. Lenses such as the James Webb Space Telescope allow scientists to peer so far into the reaches of space that they’re actively looking into the past, as light cannot travel far enough to reach the Earth from these distant locations in the time it takes to view them. Because of this, scientists are effectively engaging in time travel each time they use the James Webb, though an expedition to those locations would take a manned crew so long, there’s no telling what could be waiting.
Theoretically, if science could advance so far that human beings could travel to the furthest corners of the universe, Earth-bound researchers thousands of years in the future might be able to peer at them as they conduct a space walk using advanced telescopes. Of course, the two parties would never have a means of performing meaningful interactions, so the concept of using time travel techniques to interrupt your parents’ prom night is completely off the table.
