Time Travel : Discovery News

How To (Really) Build Your Own TARDIS

Posted by Jennifer Ouellette Mon Mar 12, 2012 08:16 AM ET | 0

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.) Read more

Time Travel Impossible, Say Scientists

Posted Sun Jul 24, 2011 07:26 AM ET | 0

By showing a single photon cannot travel faster than the speed of light, scientists prove time travel is impossible. Read more

Could Higgs Particle be a Time-Traveling Assassin?

Posted by Ian O'Neill Wed Mar 16, 2011 05:07 PM ET | 0

Is there another type of Higgs particle that can travel through time? Could it be used for evil? Read more

A Universe Stranger Than We Can't Imagine

Posted by Mark Thompson Sun Feb 20, 2011 05:34 PM ET | 0

Ever looked up at the night sky and wondered: What is up there? Read more

Wide Angle: Surfing Spacetime

Posted Fri Oct 22, 2010 10:00 AM ET

Warp speed and time travel are the fodder of sci-fi plot lines, but is there any real physics behind the fiction? Read more

DNews Quiz -- Test Your Science Smarts!

Posted Fri Aug 27, 2010 02:58 PM ET | 0

Take the DNews quiz on stories we covered this week. Give it your best shot... Read more

quiz, warp drive, mona lisa, corals, dino dig, cannibalism

Daydreams of Foreign Travel Prove Most Transporting

Posted by Emily Sohn Fri Jul 30, 2010 09:57 AM ET | 0

A daydream about a foreign vacation or a long-ago memory prove most likely to help you forget the present.. Read more

So You Want To Be A Time Traveler?

Posted by Mark Thompson Fri Jul 9, 2010 02:44 AM ET | 0

While time dilation and quantum tunneling might help, relativity will always get in the way of your time-traveling dreams. Read more

Stephen Hawking's Time Machine

Posted by Irene Klotz Thu May 6, 2010 11:22 PM ET | 0

British cosmologist Stephen Hawking has outlined not one, but three, theoretically realistic ideas for traveling through time, one of which he says is even practical. Read more

Is Time Travel Possible?

Posted by Robert Lamb Thu Apr 22, 2010 06:14 PM ET | 0

Modern culture is inundated with tales of time travel. But is it really possible to travel through time? I talk with theoretical physicist and cosmologist Paul Davies, author of "How to Build a Time Machine," to find out. Read more

Wide Angle: Is Sci-Fi Time Travel Possible?

Posted Mon Apr 19, 2010 07:05 PM ET

Time travel appears all too easy in science fiction storylines, but is there any science behind the fiction? Read more

Top 5 Time Travel Methods from the Movies

Posted Mon Apr 19, 2010 03:23 PM ET | 0

Movies are riddled with time travel plots, but which are the most feasible? Time travel expert Ron Mallett gives us his top 5 science fiction story lines. Read more

Turning a Hot Tub into a Time Machine

Posted by Ian O'Neill Wed Mar 31, 2010 03:27 PM ET | 0

Assuming a Hot Tub Time Machine has the same energy requirements as Back To The Future's DeLorean, what kind of upgrade would it need? Read more

Lost in Spacetime

Posted by Jennifer Ouellette Tue Feb 2, 2010 12:14 AM ET | 0

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 ... Read more

Hot Tub = Time Machine?

Posted by Jennifer Ouellette Thu Dec 17, 2009 11:57 AM ET | 0

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 ... Read more