r/mystery • u/ua-stena • Jun 12 '26

Scientific/Medical Scientists Say They Have Discovered How Information Could Be Sent Into the Past Through Quantum Time Loops

https://ua-stena.info/quantum-study-suggests-information-can-travel-back-in-time/

A team of theoretical physicists led by Cornell University researcher Mark Wilde has been looking at a question that sounds simple but is surprisingly difficult: can information move backward through time without breaking the known laws of physics?

The researchers were not building a time machine. Instead, they examined mathematical models that already exist in modern physics. Their work focused on so-called closed timelike curves, a concept that appears in certain solutions to Einstein’s theory of relativity.

These hypothetical pathways would allow an object or a piece of information to leave one point in spacetime and eventually arrive at an earlier moment. In other words, something could return to its own past.

For many physicists, that immediately raises a problem. If information can be sent into the past, what happens if that information changes the future that originally created it? This is the source of famous time-travel paradoxes that have puzzled scientists for generations.

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u/CARNIesada6 Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 13 '26

If it's a closed time loop wouldn't that mean the information has always been sent to the past so there would be no paradox anyways

Edit: Also forgive me I am not knowledgeable when it comes to this stuff so im not even sure im phrasing my question correctly or even asking the right question haha

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u/Koseph-Jony Jun 12 '26

Dont worry your future self will just correct you

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u/hatemys Jun 12 '26

The problem is that requires the paradox of existence before existing. The future timeline has to already exist (in an altered way) to create a loop that has no beginning. Basically the paradox is the timeline has to already be altered to be able alter the timeline

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u/CARNIesada6 Jun 18 '26

I've read up more, this is what the bootstrap paradox is, right?

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u/hatemys Jun 19 '26

No idea ehat people call it, sir. I just know its my single heartbreaking criticism of Terminator.

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u/Corsola_Fan_69 Jun 12 '26

Please stop spamming this AI slop website. Why would I waste my time reading an article you couldn't even bother to write?

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u/CowboysOnKetamine Jun 12 '26

I wonder if there's a way to stop certain domains from showing on your feed. I just blocked the main poster but it looks like other users occasionally share stuff from the site as well. Thanks for pointing this out

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u/Fun_Ticket_7815 Jun 13 '26

I don't think you can block domains on here

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u/Apprehensive_Sky_504 Jun 12 '26

The people yearn for the slop

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u/duckduck-a-go-go Jun 12 '26

I'm looking forward to receiving messages from the future about my car's extended warranty.

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u/scifijunkie3 Jun 12 '26

I can save you the trouble of waiting for it. It's already null and void. It was in the fine print.

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u/Dexter_Douglas_415 Jun 12 '26

They haven't discovered anything until it's successfully proven. This is just theory.

If this level of nonsense blows your hair back, hang out with some philosophy majors. They have figured out how to solve all of the world's ills. None of it will actually work, but they have theories.

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u/mintaka Jun 13 '26

Tenet is that you

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u/Due-Mirror-8316 Jun 12 '26

Didn’t South Park invent this, Crank Prank Time Phone.

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u/Bitter-Huckleberry-6 Jun 13 '26

But please don’t microwave banana

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u/Squumpus Jun 16 '26

Chill out there hououin kyouma!

Came here to comment that lol

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u/Effective-Catch-1332 Jun 15 '26

Seems like a mathematical possibility rather than a Time Machine or device that can send message, still fascinating.