Dubbing these “closed timelike geodesics” (CTGs), Ralph and Sajeendran explain in the paper: “Such a CTG would be ideal for ...

Endgame" speaks about the elements of the movie's time-travel plot line that are supported by science.

Ron Mallett, a physicist and professor emeritus at the University of Connecticut, was just 10 years old when he lost his father to a sudden heart attack. This traumatic experience, along with ...

Star Trek's iconic warp drive, once pure science fiction, is now inspiring real-world astrophysicists. Scientists are developing theoretical models that could enable faster-than-light travel by ...

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Quantum mechanics: it’s the realm of science where nothing is normal, and everything seems to undermine the fundaments of our common understanding of reality. Nonetheless, we simple humans tick on.

One of the most famous paradoxes ever, the grandfather paradox, cautions against making changes that could break the timeline if you were to ever travel back in time. But, according to one scientist, ...

Space -- the final frontier. These are the words that introduce every episode of classic "Star Trek," the show that essentially popularized the concept of traveling the stars at the speed of light – ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) While time travel is cool science fiction tech, it seems to directly contradict our current understanding of physics. But what about, instead of moving a whole person back in ...

Can we journey through time? Sci-fi author Dete Meserve presents a compelling case for our future in the past. Can we journey through time? From H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine to The Time Traveler's ...

Faster-than-light travel is impossible according to our current understanding of physics. Wormholes are theoretically possible but require unstable, exotic matter to stabilize. Generation ships are a ...