Looks like time travel may be possible after all: scientificamerican/article/time-travel-simulation-resolves-grandfather-paradox/. The closed timelike curves spoken of in this paper sound a lot like the scenario in my first novel Entangled, chapter 63. Extract below: “How do you think time works?” the Angel asked. She pointed to the screen: “Draw it for me with your finger.” Leoni reached out and traced a glowing green horizontal line from left to right across the middle of the screen. She scrawled PAST above the extreme left side of the line, PRESENT at the centre, and FUTURE at the extreme right. “Ah,” said the Angel. “Time’s arrow. For one event to cause another it must precede it.” “Well obviously, duuh… “Or perhaps not so obvious. Perhaps, for example, time is more like this.” The Angel waved her hand, erasing Leoni’s line, and touched the screen with her own index finger. Though continuous, the line she drew was not straight but looped and twisted and sprawled across all parts of the screen, making multiple meandering curves and turns, often winding back and recrossing its own path, here forming a spiral, there a cat’s cradle, and there coiled into a tangled knot. “Different things happen at different points along the line,” the Angel explained “and there are multiple causal interconnections running in all directions, so it’s not strictly speaking that one thing must occur before another to influence it. That’s how it seems to humans – almost all of you agree on it – because you’re so deeply immersed in matter. But leave the body, step outside the flow of earthly time, and you see that everything is continuously unfolding at every point along the line…”
Posted on: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 14:48:06 +0000
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