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<p>A teenage Iranian inventor claims to have created a time machine that can foresee someone's future with remarkable precision, though it isn't quite Back to the Future.</p>
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<p>The 27-year-old "managing director of Iran's Center for Strategic Inventions," Ali Razeqi, asserts that his device would print out a report outlining a person's future after applying sophisticated algorithms to forecast their fate.</p>
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<p>The Daily Telegraph reports that Razeqi informed Iran's official Fars news agency that his device "can anticipate specifics of the next 5-8 years of the life of its users and easily fits into the size of a personal computer case. It will bring the future to you rather than transporting you there."</p>
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<p>According to Razeqi, Iran has chosen to withhold the existence of their prophesied time machine for the time being out of concern that "the Chinese will steal the idea and construct it in millions overnight."</p>
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<p>Given how much attention the issue has gotten, Iran's Deputy Minister of Science, Research, and Technology refuted Razeqi's assertions in an interview with Fars on Friday.</p>
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<p>We discussed the prospects for a Razeqi-like time machine with Thomas Roman, a theoretical physicist from Central Connecticut State University and co-author of the book Time Travel and Warp Drives, in order to dispel common misconceptions regarding time travel. Here is a condensed version of our conversation:</p>
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<p>What do you make of Razeqi's assertion that he has created a time machine capable of foretelling someone's future?</p>
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<p>It's just insane.</p>
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<p>Does his purported time machine violate any physics principles?</p>
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<p>It's so bizarre that it's difficult to know.</p>
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<p>What are some common fallacies regarding time travel?</p>
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<p>One common misunderstanding is that time travel is possible to any point in the past. And that isn't accurate. You can only travel back in time as far as the invention of the time machine. Therefore, the farthest back in time I can travel is to today, when I turned my time machine on, assuming I invent my time machine today and wait 30 years before using it.</p>
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<p>Another common myth is that you can go back in time and alter the timeline; you see this a lot in time-travel movies. In these tales, the time traveler messes up the future by traveling backward in time, and must then take action to "correct the chronology." It is impossible for the same event to occur in the same universe in both ways, thus that can't be the case. The past cannot be changed.</p>
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<p>Consider the scenario where I travel through time and attempt to murder my grandfather. If I'm successful, I'll obviously never be born and won't be able to use the time machine to travel back in time.</p>
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<p>Once more, we are unable to have the identical incident—the murder of my grandfather—occur in two different realities.</p>
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<p>Is it possible to avoid the "grandfather conundrum" in some way?</p>
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<p>There are two options available. One is what is referred to as the self-consistency scenario, in which I make adjustments to all the events in the time loop that I create so that they are all self-consistent.</p>
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<p>So, for instance, if I travel across time and attempt to shoot my grandpa, I will always be stopped. My grandfather ducks, I miss, or I decide to rethink my mind as a result of the recoil on my shoulder. It appears as though the laws of physics and the cosmos are working together to ensure consistency.</p>
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<p>The alternative explanation is that when I shoot my grandfather, the universe splits into two separate realities, one in which I shot my grandfather and the other in which I did not.</p>
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<p>Split timelines didn't come into play in J. J. Abrams' most recent Star Trek reboot, right?</p>
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<p>Yes, there was something that fit that description. In the film, the villainous Romulan Nero travels across time to exact revenge on Spock, whom he holds accountable for the destruction of his native planet Romulus. He will thus exact revenge by traveling across time and destroying [the planet] Vulcan.</p>
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<p>Nero forces the universe to split by traveling back in time because Vulcan wasn't obliterated in the first timeline—the one he came from.</p>
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<p>The Vulcan he kills is the one in the new branch of time, not the one in his original timeline. Therefore, he isn't actually exacting revenge on the first Vulcan from his universe. But I suppose retaliation is retaliation.</p>
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<p>Despite this, I believed that [using the idea of a split timeline] was a creative approach to reboot the franchise since you get to keep the same characters while not being forced to strictly follow the events of the previous episodes because you're in a new timeline where everything is possible.</p>
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<p>Okay, so it's possible that you can't go back in time. But is it possible to go through time?</p>
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<p>There is nothing wrong with that. In reality, we are aware of how to achieve it in theory. Time slows down for a space traveler relative to someone on Earth when they approach the speed of light.</p>
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<p>Orbiting very closely by a black hole is another method of time travel. You might experience time dilation compared to viewers on Earth, for instance, if you orbit the black hole at the center of our galaxy.</p>
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<p>Could a time machine like the one the Iranian businessman claimed to have developed actually function if time travel into the future is possible?</p>
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<p>It is simple to go into the future. The special theory of relativity, developed by Albert Einstein, provides a method for time travel. The grandfather paradox only arises when you attempt to move backward. Despite this, the businessman's alleged creation is still absurd.</p>
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<p>One problem that is rarely emphasized in time travel tales is that the Earth will no longer exist if you merely travel back in time while remaining at the exact same location in space. Therefore, wouldn't time travel also require space travel?</p>
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<p>Yes, that would be necessary. The Earth is orbiting the sun and rotating on its axis. Therefore, the Earth's orbital position is not constant. The Earth is no longer beneath you if you remain in the same location and travel through time. You'll find yourself in a sticky situation after turning off your time machine.</p>
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<p>Why do you believe that time travel is so prevalent in literature and film?</p>
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<p>You must admit that it's a very alluring concept. The ability to go back in time and personally observe events that have only been recorded in history books and the geological record is one of the attractions. Everyone would likely believe it would be awesome to travel back in time and witness dinosaurs or ancient Greece.</p>
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<p>Another argument, in my opinion, is that we have all done or experienced things in the past that we wish we hadn't. Additionally, I believe there is a yearning to be able to turn the clock back and stop those events from occurring.</p>
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