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Scientists Successfully Simulate Backward Time Travel with a 25% Chance of Actually Changing the Past (thedebrief.org)

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Scientists trying to take advantage of the unusual properties of the quantum realm say they have successfully simulated a method of backward time travel that allowed them to change an event after the fact one out of four times. The Cambridge University team is quick to caution that they have not built a time machine, per se, but also note how their process doesn’t violate physics while changing past events after they have happened.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ok, so, this is in the context of closed timelike curves. This is a thing which appears in the math of general relativity. It has never been observed in real life, and may disappear if we ever have a reconciliatian of quantum mechanics and gravity.

The study was a computer simulation of "what if we had some particles in a closed timelike curve and could mess with them", and there is no suggestion of this being applicable or even possible in the real world.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

Thank you! The article does not mention any of that, and as a result, explained nothing.