Time travel has been the main science fiction books and movies for many years. Most people who have read or seen content that focuses on time travel are aware of the point of contradiction. Perhaps the best example of this is the 80’s classic “Back to the Future”, where Marty accidentally stops meeting his parents and has to correct his mistake before erasing his own existence.
Time travel is something that scientists and physicists have considered for many years. A German physics student named Tober from the University of Queensland in Australia says he has discovered mathematics that will streamline time travel without contradiction. According to Tober, classical dynamics says that if you know the state of a system at a particular time, it can tell you the complete history of the system.
His calculations suggest that space-time may adapt itself to avoid contradictions. An example is a time traveler who travels past to prevent the spread of a disease. If the mission had been successful, there would have been no disease for the time traveler to go back and try and prevent. Tober suggests that the disease may still spread in some other way, by removing the contradiction, by a different route or method.
He says that whatever time travels, the disease does not stop. Tober’s work is very complex, but it is essentially focusing on inhibitory processes over a number of regions in space-time continuity. It shows that the closed timelike curve, which Einstein predicted, would conform to free will and the laws of classical physics.
Fobio Costa, a physicist from the University of Queensland, is Tober’s research supervisor. Costa says that “mathematics checks,” further noting that the results are the stuff of science fiction. New math suggests that time travelers can do what they want, and contradictions are not possible. Costa says events will always adjust themselves to avoid any discrepancies.