We may have figured out a way to send messages backwards in time · Karmela Padavic-Callaghan
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WHAT if you could send a message into the past? The laws of physics don’t forbid it – and in fact, in some cases, communicating backwards in time might actually be easier than the usual direction. The possibility of sending a message to the past emerges from a particular kind of solution to the equations of general relativity, our best theory of how space-time, the fabric of reality, behaves. Every object in the universe follows a path through space-time, and one such path allowed by general relativity is called a closed time-like curve (CTC), which sees an object travel into the future before returning to the past and ending up in the present, forming a time loop. …
摘自《新科学家》(New Scientist)第270卷 第3594期 · 2026年5月9日,Karmela Padavic-Callaghan。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。