black holes, outer space, time travel

Are Black Holes Time Machines? Yes, but There’s a Catch

Black holes form natural time machines that allow travel to both the past and the future. But don’t expect to be heading back to visit the dinosaurs any time soon. At present, we don’t have spacecraft that could get us anywhere near a black hole. But, even leaving that small detail aside, attempting to travel ...

Troy Oakes

What a black hole might look like.

How Do We Know That Time Exists?

The alarm goes off in the morning. You catch your morning train to the office. You take a lunch break. You catch your evening train back. You go for an hour’s run. Eat dinner. Go to bed. Repeat. Birthdays are celebrated, deaths commemorated. New countries are born, and empires rise and fall. The whole of ...

Troy Oakes

A pocket watch in the sand.

Does Physics Accept the Possibility of Time Travel?

Time travel has always fascinated people. The idea that you can travel to the future to know what will happen or back to the past and influence the present is something that definitely piques interest. However, is time travel really possible according to physics? Theoretically, it does seem so. Traveling through time Just so you ...

Raven Montmorency

A woman surrounded by many clocks.

Many Worlds: The Strange Realities of Quantum Mechanics

Among the different streams of science, quantum mechanics is arguably the most mysterious. It opens up possibilities of time travel and even multiple worlds, concepts that we, with our current understanding of time and space, haven’t yet grasped fully. The ‘Many Worlds’ In 1935, an Austrian physicist named Erwin Schrodinger wrote a paper that has ...

Armin Auctor

The Many Worlds theory.

Time Travel? YouTuber Reveals ‘Proof’

Time travel has always been an idea that evokes wonder among science enthusiasts. Though many researchers have proposed hypotheses that predict the possibility of time travel, no one has been able to prove these theories. However, a YouTube channel, Frank Klever, published a video that claims to have evidence of time travel. Time travel Klever ...

Armin Auctor

Fractures in the space-time continuum.

The Russian Cosmonaut Who Time Traveled ‘Into the Future’

Time travel is something that is often presented as a fantasy. The idea that a human being can travel into the future is believed to be impossible. However, you may be surprised to know that a Russian cosmonaut has already traveled into the future. The time traveler Sergei Krikalev is a veteran space traveler who ...

Troy Oakes

A black hole drawing in light.