As one research author explained, no matter what a so-called time traveler does in the past, events will always simply ‘adjust themselves to any inconsistency’.
Peculiar research co-authored by University of Queensland student Germain Tobar and UQ Professor Fabio Costa, postulates that a particular kind of time travel might actually be possible, according to a report in Popular Mechanics.
The authors of the paper, titled “Reversible dynamics with closed time-like curves and freedom of choice”, argue that they’ve discovered a “middle ground in mathematics that solves a major logical paradox in one model of time travel”.
With the “time-travel discussion” focused on so-called closed timelike curves, the magazine notes, Tobar and Costa suggest that “as long as just two pieces of an entire scenario within a CTC are still in ‘causal order’ when you leave, the rest is subject to local free will”.
In a statement cited by the magazine, Costa deployed the analogy of a time traveler seeking to prevent the COVID-19 Patient Zero from becoming infected with the virus, noting how succeeding in that quest would eliminate the traveler’s motivation to head into the past to stop the pandemic in the first place.
Tobar further detailed, however, that no matter what a hypothetical time traveler does in the past, “salient events would just recalibrate” around them.
Sourse: sputniknews.com
