Time Archives | Search Articles | Astronomy Trek Mon, 19 May 2025 11:47:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Are Wormholes Fact or Fiction? https://www.astronomytrek.com/wormholes/ Tue, 04 Oct 2022 16:03:17 +0000 https://www.astronomytrek.com/?p=14752 Wormholes are a sci-fi trope that everybody has heard of, a swirly (often blue-colored) tube that lets the protagonist jump between large distances or to other worlds. Of course, wormholes of this type are pure ...

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]]> Time Travel & the Grandfather Paradox Explained https://www.astronomytrek.com/grandfather-paradox-explained/ Tue, 10 Sep 2019 12:21:52 +0000 http://www.astronomytrek.com/?p=13928 A Grandfather Paradox arises when something traveling back in time creates inconsistencies that contradict the timeline’s history. The most commonly cited example of this type of time travel paradox involves a person traveling to the ...

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]]> The Time Traveler’s Almanac: A Time Travel Anthology https://www.astronomytrek.com/astronomy-book-reviews/the-time-travelers-almanac/ Mon, 08 Apr 2019 15:22:07 +0000 http://www.astronomytrek.com/?p=13759 The Time Traveler’s Almanac is the latest in a long line of thrilling science fiction literature that deals with the absorbing genre of time travel. Edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, the world-renowned anthologists have ...

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]]> Time Travel & the Predestination Paradox Explained https://www.astronomytrek.com/time-travel-the-predestination-paradox-explained/ https://www.astronomytrek.com/time-travel-the-predestination-paradox-explained/#respond Tue, 16 May 2017 00:11:34 +0000 http://www.astronomytrek.com/?p=10774 A Predestination Paradox refers to a phenomenon in which a person traveling back in time becomes part of past events, and may even have caused the initial event that caused that person to travel back ...

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]]> https://www.astronomytrek.com/time-travel-the-predestination-paradox-explained/feed/ 0 Time’s Arrow and Growing Old Is Just A State of Mind https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/times-arrow-and-growing-old-is-just-a-state-of-mind/ Wed, 09 Nov 2016 14:51:44 +0000 http://www.astronomytrek.com/?p=8262 While we are increasingly being asked to refine our view of the world and the universe in which we live, one thing that we hold as constant is time. People often say things like “you ...

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]]> Time Travel & the Bootstrap Paradox Explained https://www.astronomytrek.com/the-bootstrap-paradox-explained/ https://www.astronomytrek.com/the-bootstrap-paradox-explained/#comments Sat, 17 Oct 2015 14:45:40 +0000 http://www.astronomytrek.com/?p=6695 The Bootstrap Paradox is a theoretical paradox of time travel that occurs when an object or piece of information sent back in time becomes trapped within an infinite cause-effect loop in which the item no ...

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]]> https://www.astronomytrek.com/the-bootstrap-paradox-explained/feed/ 22 7 Mysteries Of Time Explained https://www.astronomytrek.com/7-profound-questions-about-time/ Sat, 03 Oct 2015 15:51:16 +0000 http://www.astronomytrek.com/?p=6614 The fundamental nature of time has always featured prominently in the discussions of scientists, philosophers, and mathematicians throughout the ages. Let us take a look at seven of the profoundest questions about time, and where ...

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]]> Interesting Time Travel Quotes https://www.astronomytrek.com/interesting-time-travel-quotes/ Sun, 22 Feb 2015 01:50:12 +0000 http://www.astronomytrek.com/?p=5682 Time travel isn’t just science fiction anymore. Thanks to Einstein’s theories, wormholes, and quantum mechanics, serious physicists have spent decades exploring whether it could actually happen. Whether through bending space-time or jumping dimensions, the concept ...

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]]> Is Time Travel To The Past Theoretically Possible? https://www.astronomytrek.com/is-traveling-back-through-time-possible/ Sat, 31 Jan 2015 16:44:23 +0000 http://www.astronomytrek.com/?p=5613 Is time travel possible? People who say that that it is not should think again. After all, we’re all time travelers, scooting along through the space-time continuum at a rate of one second per second. ...

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]]> 5 Bizarre Paradoxes Of Time Travel Explained https://www.astronomytrek.com/5-bizarre-paradoxes-of-time-travel-explained/ https://www.astronomytrek.com/5-bizarre-paradoxes-of-time-travel-explained/#comments Sat, 20 Dec 2014 01:35:47 +0000 http://www.astronomytrek.com/?p=5460 There is nothing in Einstein’s theories of relativity to rule out time travel, although the very notion of traveling to the past violates one of the most fundamental premises of physics, that of causality. With ...

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