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Is Time Travel Possible?: General Relativity

Time travel to the past is theoretically possible according to general relativity but would require conditions like wormholes or violations of known physics. Forward time travel is an observed phenomenon explained by special and general relativity where time passes at different rates due to speed or gravity. While time travel to the past remains theoretical, moving into the future is constantly occurring as one ages more slowly when moving faster or in strong gravitational fields.

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Is Time Travel Possible?: General Relativity

Time travel to the past is theoretically possible according to general relativity but would require conditions like wormholes or violations of known physics. Forward time travel is an observed phenomenon explained by special and general relativity where time passes at different rates due to speed or gravity. While time travel to the past remains theoretical, moving into the future is constantly occurring as one ages more slowly when moving faster or in strong gravitational fields.

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Is Time travel possible?

Prepared by –VIKASH KUMAR VIVEK


Time travel is the concept of movement between certain points in time, analogous to movement between different points
in space by an object or a person.

It is uncertain if time travel to the past is physically possible. Forward time travel, outside the usual sense of the perception of
time, is an extensively-observed phenomenon and 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 backwards time travel, it is possible to find solutions in general relativity that allow for it, but
the solutions require conditions that may not be physically possible. Traveling to an arbitrary point in space-time has a very
limited support in theoretical physics, and usually only connected with quantum mechanics and wormholes also known as
Einstein-Rosen bridges.

General Relativity - General relativity is the geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1915 and the
current description of gravitation in modern physics. General relativity generalizes special relativity and Newton's law of universal
gravitation, providing a unified description of gravity as a geometric property of space and time, or space-time. In particular,
the curvature of space-time is directly related to the energy and momentum of whatever matter and radiation are present. The
relation is specified by the Einstein field equations, a system of partial differential equations.
Quantum Mechanics – Science dealing with the behavior of matter and light on the atomic and subatomic scale. It attempts to
describe and account for the properties of molecules and atoms and their constituents—electrons, protons, neutrons, and other
more esoteric particles such as quarks and gluons.
Wormholes - Think of a paper with points on its extremities, now fold the paper as the two points as coinciding, so in place of
going from one point to another, you can directly go through the paper at the point where the two points concede, hence cutting
down the travel distance by a very large amount. Now just think of the paper as the universe and the two points as two galaxies
trillions millions of light years away, instead of covering all the time that would take billions of years, we can straightaway go
there through the wormhole.

We all constantly time travel — but it's in only one direction. We're inevitably moving 1 second at a time
into the future, and we could go faster if we wanted. Indeed, we can jump forward into the future as
much as we want. It's only a matter of going really, really fast we get the evidence from Albert
Einstein's theory of special relativity, which shows that time is relative depending on how fast you are
moving."The faster you move through space, the slower you move through time. We've been able to
measure this with ultra-precise atomic clocks in jet airplanes, and the precision offered by the GPS
system needs to take this into account. Take astronauts as an example, they already time traveler of a
sort. That's because they go into space and live on the International Space Station, sometimes for
months at a time. At a speed of about 5 miles (8 kilometers) a second, astronauts on the space station
are moving faster than we are on Earth. This means that on the station, astronaut’s age just a tiny bit
slower than they would on the planet's surface.
So how could Einstein's theory make time travel possible? Well, one way would be to break the cosmic speed limit and go faster
than the speed of light — but that likely wouldn't work, because an object going at that speed would have infinite mass. Another
possibility would be to form "wormholes" between points in space-time, although this would likely work for only small particles.
There are even more exotic possibilities out there, such as using black holes, huge cylinders or cosmic strings to play with the
fabric of space-time.

When it comes to the past, the mathematics of general relativity does allow a few strange scenarios where you can end up in
your own past. But all of these scenarios end up violating other known physics, like requiring negative mass or infinitely long
rotating cylinders.

Wormholes might be possible in zones with dark matter. (This is a theoretical form of matter that cannot be seen or otherwise
sensed with telescopes, but does show itself in its gravitational effects on other bodies.) While his equations show wormholes
could occur in these regions, a black hole could make it possible. But that’s not yet discovered.

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