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Time travel

Time travel is the hypothetical activity of traveling into the past or future. Time travel is a widely recognized concept in philosophy and fiction, particularly science fiction. In fiction, time travel is typically achieved through the use of a hypothetical device known as a time machine. The idea of a time machine was popularized by H. G. Wells's 1895 novel The Time Machine.[1]

"Time machine" redirects here. For other uses, see Time Machine (disambiguation).

It is uncertain whether time travel to the past would be physically possible. Such travel, if at all feasible, may give rise to questions of causality. Forward time travel, outside the usual sense of the perception of time, is an extensively observed phenomenon and is well understood within the framework of special relativity and general relativity. However, making one body advance or delay more than a few milliseconds compared to another body is not feasible with current technology. As for backward time travel, it is possible to find solutions in general relativity that allow for it, such as a rotating black hole. Traveling to an arbitrary point in spacetime has very limited support in theoretical physics, and is usually connected only with quantum mechanics or wormholes.

– book by James Gleick

Time Travel: A History

. NOVA. October 12, 1999. Retrieved June 9, 2023. (Transcript)

"NOVA - s27e03 - Time Travel"

a Royal Society Lecture

Black holes, Wormholes and Time Travel

at HowStuffWorks

How Time Travel Will Work

at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Time Travel and Modern Physics

at the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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