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CAUSALITY VIOLATION
CAUSALITY VIOLATION: CAN IT BE
DONE? RESEARCHERS SEEM TO
THINK SO, BUT WHY?
In the 1960s, Roger Penrose proved the existence of a point at the centre of black
holes, where all matter drawn in to that point is crushed out of existence, known as
the singularity. In the same decade, Roy Kerr, a mathematician from New Zealand,
showed that with a rotating black hole, the singularity becomes a ring that can be
likened in shape to a LifeSavers hard candy. If something were to travel through that
ring of singularity, it would pass intoand throughwhat we commonly identify as a
wormhole.
Theoretically speaking, if a black hole with enough mass started spinning, it could
potentially bend the fabric of existence, bending space-time back on itself in the
process, creating a closed time-like curve, or CTC, which is a loop through which an
objector personcan travel backward or forward in time.
PARADOXES AND
THE MANY-WORLDS
With
the multiverse theory, paradoxessuch
THEORY
MENTAL CAUSALITY
VIOLATION
When people typically think of time travel, they
think of the TARDIS or the DeLorean, or maybe
even the first one to be called a time machine,
the one used by the Time Traveller in HG Wells
The Time Machine. Not very many think of the
human consciousness in those terms. Consider
this: when you read a book that dips into the
past, do you tend to visualise the setting as it
would have looked back then? Or when youre
reading a novella that delves into the future, do
you imagine what it might look like based on
past speculations? When you do that, you are
traveling through time in your mind. There are
people, though, who can legitimately see the
futuremost often the near future. We call them
psychos (I mean psychics). Not all of them are
phonies, though; its mostly the ones who try to
make a profit from their supposed gift. I have
experienced precognition, or the foreknowledge
of an event, in my dreams on occasion.
THE
What do I want you to take away from all this? I want you to do your own research
TAKEAWAY?
into the possibilities of causality violation, or time travel, and create your own
opinions on this fascinating subject. I will say this: there is an enormous amount of
technical jargon in the majority of the articles you will find, and if you dont know a
majority of the terms they use, simply do a Google search for quantum physics in
laymans terms, the possibilities of time travel in laymans terms, or something to
that effect.