Number 61 » Physics http://number61.net by Matthew Gipp Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:10:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Real Rules for Time Travelers http://number61.net/2010/02/real-rules-for-time-travelers http://number61.net/2010/02/real-rules-for-time-travelers#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:06:30 +0000 Matthew Gipp http://number61.net/?p=4706 Discover blogger Sean Caroll, wielding an adapted passage from his book, dispels some popular myths about time travel:

Since time is kind of like space (the four dimensions go hand in hand), a working time machine would zoom off like a rocket rather than disappearing in a puff of smoke.

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]]> http://number61.net/2010/02/real-rules-for-time-travelers/feed 0 A Quantum Humdinger http://number61.net/2009/10/quantum-humdinger http://number61.net/2009/10/quantum-humdinger#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:04:19 +0000 Matthew Gipp http://number61.net/?p=2375 The short, accident-marred life of the Large Hadron Collider has some physicists suggesting a real humdinger of an explanation: the Higgs boson, the theoretical particle that scientists are hoping to produce with the collider’s help, is “so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather.”

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