{"id":5635,"date":"2018-12-20T09:22:04","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T14:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=5635"},"modified":"2018-12-20T13:25:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T18:25:28","slug":"is-time-travel-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/12\/20\/is-time-travel-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"Is time travel possible?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5630\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5630\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw122018-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5630\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw122018-3-300x298.jpg\" alt=\"Is time travel possible?\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw122018-3-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw122018-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw122018-3-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw122018-3.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5630\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Is time travel possible?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yes, but so far only in one direction: forward, and at the same speed everyone else is traveling. Theoretically, you could travel briefly slower than everyone by approaching the speed of light. When you return, everyone else will be old already, and that&#8217;s no fun. Kip Thorne at Cal Tech has studied this question. I&#8217;m not a theoretical physicist or a Nobel Laureate, so I&#8217;m just going to have to trust him when he says, &#8220;nope&#8221;: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/kip-time\">bit.ly\/kip-time<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, but so far only in one direction: forward, and at the same speed everyone else is traveling. Theoretically, you could travel briefly slower than everyone by approaching the speed of light. When you return, everyone else will be old already, and that&#8217;s no fun. Kip Thorne at Cal Tech has studied this question. I&#8217;m &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/12\/20\/is-time-travel-possible\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is time travel possible?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[276],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5635"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5645,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5635\/revisions\/5645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}