Physicists from the University of Queensland in Australia set out to simulate a computer experiment, which could prove the possibility of time travel at the quantum level, predicted in 1991.
They managed to simulate the behavior of a single photon passing through a wormhole in space-time in the past and engaging with itself. Such a trajectory of a particle is called a closed timelike curve, i.e. a photon returns to the original space-time point and its worldline closes.
In the first, the particle passes through a wormhole, returning to the past, and interacts with itself. In the second scenario, the photon, forever enclosed in a closed timelike curve interacts with another, ordinary particle.
According to the scientists, their work will make an important contribution to the unification of the two great theories in physics, which till this moment had little in common: the Einstein’s general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics.
“Einstein’s theory describes the world of stars and galaxies, while quantum mechanics studies mainly the properties of elementary particles, atoms and molecules,” said Martin Ringbauer of University of Queensland.
However, this possibility can cause a number of paradoxes: a time traveler could, for example, prevent his parents from meeting each other, and thus make his own birth impossible.
In 1991, it was suggested for the first time that time travel in the quantum world can prevent such paradoxes, since the properties of quantum particles are not precisely defined, according to Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle.
Computer simulations created by Australian scientists allowed them to study the behavior of quantum particles in such a scenario. At the same time, new interesting effects were revealed, the occurrence of which is considered impossible according to the standard quantum mechanics.
For example, it turned out that it is possible to accurately identify the various states of a quantum system, which is quite possible if we remain within the framework of the quantum theory.
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Models such a the "verbal" ones and the "math" ones are just that ... they are only "models" or "maps" representing My Assumed Perceptions of the "Factual Territory" of an extremely mystical Territory.
This math model is just that, but ... it may be pointing to a Territorial Reality that is hiding behind the mirror of self-expression. What we might experience some day is .., Our infinite mind state of "Awareness" .. "Consciously Discovering" that each and every momentary state of quanta remains fixed in that specific time-date special stamp and therefore a quanta of energy of today ... can never find itself ... via some black hole elevator ... as it once was "Once Upon A Time." And that is because quanta changes and the quanta knowing of today will never self-recognize the quanta of being ... way back when ... all things were and always have been ... thing-ing and singing in and with .. the Music Of The Spheres. Happy Hunting In An Amazing Expedition Deep Into The Geography of The Meta Mind.
Cheers Anna LeMind
First nice write up and if you don't mind I want to reblog this...
What I find peculiar with this is: the simulation is fundamentally flawed. If you let me expound a little here; The basis of the underline simulation suggest Einstein’s theory of the nature and speed of light is true. What if I told you it was wrong? Yes it has been proven, but (with fore finger up in a cusp hand), what if the nature upon which the test were made are flawed?
In a few words “Gravitational time dilation”. Now what I propose is a controversial idea, indeed, yet needs to be voiced. What if, nay, the fact is Atomic Clocks themselves are subject to gravitational changes and inherent to their nature run slower as they get farther from the stronger gravitational fields and what the test only proved was that very fact.
Our focus there fore should be on making a clock that is not effected by gravitational changes...
Well, there it is
Angus K
How accurate is this simulation?
They only talk what could happen, what can be, assuming how it will be. I searched a lot of details via the internet but only meanless talks like it will create multiple paradoxes but none of them is exactly: like how do you create a wormwhole? Is easy to suppose what will happend if you send something or someone back in time. i have a million teories. But why they don't public the exact facts? What techonlogy do they use to make does tests?
Something I practice often is when I have a serious decision to make or I need questions about the future to be answered, I go into a deep meditative state and imagine myself from however far into the future I need the information from, and the future me tells me what I need to know.
It seems ridiculous until I look back at myself 5 years ago. I was very overweight, in a tumultuous relationship, unemployed, depressed and hopless. Back then I had just started to learn and understand more about the mind, body, spirit connection and I made up like an imagonary friend game where I would imagine talking with the 2014 version of myself, giving me advice and promising certain risks were worth it. I look back now and I know that I have become the vision I had of myself in 2008. 2014 Chelsea made a lot of big promises to 2007 Chelsea. She gave me images of my future that promised me that I would become everything I wanted to be, inside and out if I took some risks and just embraced the process...damned if it's not exactly that way!! Weather it was the law of attraction, manifestation, or a genuine gift and vision of the future, it happened. By all accounts the world I live in know is an eye-rolling, laughable, impossibility for 2008 Chelsea. Whatever cosmic reason for it, I get messages from the future me and I have an edge over others because of it.