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time travelling with einstein

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first…the obligatory recap of my absolutely fascinating life which you are currently reading about but are not necessarily excited by. had din with joyce last nite at l’express…calamare ala plancha and roast chicken, yum. then we had coffee at 71 irving. contain yourself.

theres an interesting article today in scientific american in response to the forthcoming poop that is timeline, based on the 1999 michael crichton novel. they have an interview with michio kaku, a string theorist who goes to lengths to explain the evolution of time travel theory. one excerpt reads…

In 1963 Roy Kerr, a mathematician, found that a spinning black hole collapses into a ring of compressed matter, not a dot. If you fall through the ring, you could wind up backwards in time or perhaps on another universe. The mathematicians call [such spaces] multiply connected spaces. The physicists call them wormholes.

maybe there will be another universe where george and barbara decided to indeed use prophylactics. kaku goes on to elaborate about general time travel questions, such as paradoxes and time machines, and newer fair such as quantum teleportations, negative energy, and biff tannen.

> scientific american article