News tagged with time travel
Scientists reveal where growing conditions today mirror future climates
With climate change posing a threat to food production around the world, scientists are developing a form of virtual time travel that can offer farmers in many countries a glimpse of their future by identifying regions where ...
Dec 08, 2011 |
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Researchers find neural signature of 'mental time travel'
Almost everyone has experienced one memory triggering another, but explanations for that phenomenon have proved elusive. Now, University of Pennsylvania researchers have provided the first neurobiological evidence that memories ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 18, 2011 |
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Big Bang simulated in metamaterial shows time travel is impossible
(PhysOrg.com) -- By observing the way that light moves inside a metamaterial, researchers have reconstructed how spacetime has expanded since the Big Bang. The results provide a better understanding of why ...
Apr 13, 2011 |
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Large Hadron Collider could be world's first time machine
(PhysOrg.com) -- If the latest theory of Tom Weiler and Chui Man Ho is right, the Large Hadron Collider – the world's largest atom smasher that started regular operation last year – could be the ...
Mar 15, 2011 |
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Time travel experiment demonstrates how to avoid the grandfather paradox (Update)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Among the many intriguing concepts in Einstein’s relativity theories is the idea of closed timelike curves (CTCs), which are paths in spacetime that return to their starting points. As ...
Mar 01, 2011 |
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Scientists find evidence for 'chronesthesia,' or mental time travel
(PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to remember the past and imagine the future can significantly affect a person's decisions in life. Scientists refer to the brain’s ability to think about the past, present, ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 22, 2010 |
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Time travel theory avoids grandfather paradox
(PhysOrg.com) -- The possibility of going back in time only to kill your ancestors and prevent your own birth has posed a serious problem for potential time travelers, not even considering the technical details ...
Jul 21, 2010 |
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Time travel? Maybe
Imagine that you're a science-fiction writer on a tight schedule. You'd like to play in the vast expanses of the universe, but you have too much scientific integrity to conjure up a warp drive or a DeLorean out of thin air. ...
May 11, 2010 |
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Moving through time
Although we can't technically travel through time (yet), when we think of the past or the future we engage in a sort of mental time travel. This uniquely human ability to psychologically travel through time arguably sets ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 21, 2010 |
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