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What physics really says about time travel possibilities
Time travel has shifted from pure fantasy to a serious, if highly constrained, topic in modern physics. The equations that ...
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Time Moves Faster Up A Mountain – And That’s Why Earth’s Core Is 2.5 Years Younger Than Its Surface
Being on the surface of a sizable planet moving at high speed through space, spinning around a yellow star and on its axis, you can imagine produces a very particular timeframe. We have recently seen ...
Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...
Exodus looks a lot like Mass Effect - let's get that out of the way. Not only does Archetype's space-faring RPG have ...
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Why GPS only works thanks to Einstein’s time tricks
GPS satellites experience time differently than we do on Earth. Without compensating for this strange effect predicted by ...
Google says spyware was slipped onto smartphones in Italy and Kazakhstan with the help of mobile interent service providers who cut off service so users could be ...
A common theme in science-fiction media, time travel is captivating. It’s defined by the late philosopher David Lewis in his essay “The Paradoxes of Time Travel” as “[involving] a discrepancy between ...
Time dilation: It’s a staple of science fiction, and whether you’re familiar with the term or not, you’ve probably encountered it in print or film. Fly fast enough to the speed of light, and your ...
In 1797, English scientist Henry Cavendish measured the strength of gravity with a contraption made of lead spheres, wooden rods and wire. In the 21st century, scientists are doing something very ...
There’s no such thing as absolute time. No matter where you are, how fast you’re moving, or how strong the gravitational field is around you, any clock you have on you will always record time as ...
In a first, astronomers have observed time ticking in slow motion in the early cosmos, confirming Albert Einstein’s century-old ideas about the reality-warping effects of our universe’s expansion. By ...
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