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Happy new year 2022! A Quantum Guide to Time Travel
Time travel. It’s the nerdy, universal fantasy that everyone from Einstein to Doc Brown to your perpetually late uncle has dreamed about. The idea of hopping into a machine, zooming through time, and showing up in the past to stop a regrettable haircut or into the future to take selfies with flying cars is tantalizing. But is it just a pipe dream, the stuff of science fiction and comic books? Or is there a slim (let’s not get ahead of ourselves) chance that time travel might someday be possible, thanks to the quantum mechanics that govern the universe?
Get ready to dive deep into the weird world of time travel in the quantum realm, where the impossible becomes possible, but only if you can wrap your mind around some very weird and mind-bending theories. So, buckle up for this roller coaster of logic-defying concepts, quantum paradoxes, and yes, a sprinkle of humor to keep the brain melt to a minimum.
The Quantum Timeline: A World Where Time is Just Another Direction
Before we start, let’s establish that time, in the quantum realm, doesn’t work the way you might think. If you imagine time as a straight line, think again. In the quantum world, time behaves much more like a… choose your metaphor: a tangled ball of yarn, a slinky, or a weirdly overcooked spaghetti…
