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“Time Travel”

Apr 12, 2013 07:34 PM ET // Larry O'Hanlon
The Iranians may have a time machine. This is why you probably shouldn't be worried. ->
Mar 16, 2011 06:09 PM ET // Ian O'Neill
Is there another type of Higgs particle that can travel through time? Could it be used for evil?
Sep 23, 2009 03:12 AM ET // Jennifer Ouellette
I definitely will be among the physics fans glued to the TV set this Thursday evening for the series premiere of Flash Forward, based on the sci-fi novel of the same name by Robert J. Sawyer. Heck, the novel kicks off the action at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, despite the fact that it hadn�...
Oct 13, 2009 04:16 PM ET // Ian O'Neill
"Well, one could even almost say that we have a model for God [...] that He rather hates Higgs particles, and attempts to avoid them." This is a rather bold statement, and oddly enough, it was made by an otherwise distinguished physicist in an unpublished article. Unpublished (and slightly tongue-i...
Dec 17, 2009 04:53 AM ET // Jennifer Ouellette
Everyone loves a good time travel fantasy, and the 1980s film Back to the Future is pretty much the cassic example of the genre. But Marty McFly stands to get some serious competition from John Cusack's comedic crew in Hot Tub Time Machine, a new film due out in March that also stars Rob Corddry [....
Mar 12, 2012 09:21 AM ET // Jennifer Ouellette
Actually, it may be possible -- you just need a wormhole, crazy camouflage and a teleportation device. (But don't expect to see a TARDIS in IKEA any time soon.)
Aug 16, 2012 01:24 PM ET // Trace Dominguez
Trying to explain the ten dimensions (yes, there are ten!) to a human is like explaining spaceflight to a cockroach, but Rob Bryanton does an excellent job of keeping it "simple."
Feb 2, 2010 12:15 AM ET // Jennifer Ouellette
Fans of ABC's Lost are eagerly waiting tonight's premiere of the final season -- and those fans include a good number of physicists, such as Sean at Cosmic Variance. Last week he wrote an entire blog post about the physics of time travel in Lost (it was a major story arc in Season 5) and ...
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