Time travel is possible, but it’s a one-way ticket – ScienceBorealis.ca Blog

This week, we’re highlighting one of the most popular posts of the last 10 years! In this 2020 article, former Physics & Astronomy editor Chenoa van den Boogaard explains the science (and some of the science fiction) behind time travel.  By Chenoa van den Boogaard, Physics & Astronomy editor The ability to travel through time, […]

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Scientists look billions of years into the past to learn about our future

By Nada Salem, Physics & Astronomy editor Few events mark the beginning of a new age in astronomy the way that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) did last summer. In July 2022, the first full-colour images from the honeycomb-shaped JWST stunned the world. They captured moments from the infancy of the universe beamed from […]

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Time travel is possible, but it’s a one-way ticket

by Alex Lehner CC BY 2.0

Chenoa van den Boogaard, Physics and Astronomy editor The ability to travel through time, whether it is to fix a mistake in the past or gain insight into the future, has long been embraced by science fiction and debated by theoretical physicists. While the debate continues over whether travelling into the past is possible, physicists […]

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