THE POSSIBILITIES OF

CAUSALITY VIOLATION
CAUSALITY VIOLATION: CAN IT BE
DONE? RESEARCHERS SEEM TO
THINK SO, BUT WHY?

WHAT IS CAUSALITY VIOLATION?

"Causality violation" is a term considered politically correct
among experts for the phenomenon more commonly known as
"time travel".

THE HISTORY OF CAUSALITY VIOLATION

For years, we have read about these possibilities in the realm of

science fiction. The idea of time as the fourth dimension, on that
same plane as three-dimensional space, is commonly attributed
to Albert Einstein with the Theory of Special Relativity, but was
first realized by HG Wells in The Time Machine. The book was
first published in 1995, but is not itself the first instance of the
idea of time travel. For that, we go back to around 400 BCE.

CAUSALITY VIOLATION IN THE 1960S

In the 1960s, Roger Penrose proved the existence of a point at the centre of black
holes, where all matter drawn in to that point is crushed out of existence, known as
the singularity. In the same decade, Roy Kerr, a mathematician from New Zealand,
showed that with a rotating black hole, the singularity becomes a ring that can be
likened in shape to a LifeSavers hard candy. If something were to travel through that
ring of singularity, it would pass intoand throughwhat we commonly identify as a
wormhole.

WHAT ARE THE

PHYSICS OF IT ALL?

Theoretically speaking, if a black hole with enough mass started spinning, it could
potentially bend the fabric of existence, bending space-time back on itself in the
process, creating a closed time-like curve, or CTC, which is a loop through which an
objector personcan travel backward or forward in time.

WORMHOLES AND CTCS

When a CTC, or closed timelike circuit is created by a
rotating black hole, the point
at the centre of the singularity
would extend to join the
extension of the other side,
creating a wormhole, and
completing the loop.

SAY IT IS POSSIBLE: WHAT ABOUT

PARADOXES?
Well, thats where Hugh Everett IIIs manyworlds interpretation of quantum physics comes
in. Everett believed that for every decision that
was made by man or by nature, there was an
outcome in this universe, but once that
outcome was determined, other universes, in
which all other possible outcomes happened,
branch off from this one, thus creating an
infinite web of alternate universes to our own.
Its possible, even, that there is a universe
somewhere in that web that we commonly call
the multiverse where we are sitting in this same
situation, except we are all penguins.

PARADOXES AND
THE MANY-WORLDS
With
the multiverse theory, paradoxessuch
THEORY

as the infamous Grandfather paradox, most

commonly described as where the time
traveler goes back in time and kills his
grandfather, thus preventing the traveler
from being born, but then he was never born,
so he couldnt have gone back in time to kill
his grandfatherend up not being possible,
as after such an event as a time traveler
killing his own grandfather, there are now
two separate universes: one where he killed
his grandfather, and one where he didnt. In
one universe, there was no time traveler, and
in the other, the time traveler lives on.

CAUSALITY VIOLATION IN BODILY

FUNCTIONS
Whether you know it or not, you have already
heard me saying each word before you think
you did in this entire talk. I know, it seemed
like you heard it right when I said it. Actually,
when you thought you heard it is when your
brain perceived it. The sound waves coming
from my voice box travelled through the air,
and hit your ear drums. Then, the electrical
signal was sent to your brain to realise, Hey,
he just said a word! I should probably pay
attention! Though it seemed instantaneous
(I said it, you perceived it), there was actually
a fraction of a second from the point my voice
hit your ears to the point your brain perceived
the electrical signal. We all live a fraction of a
second in the past, and dont even realise it
until someone points it out.

MENTAL CAUSALITY
VIOLATION
When people typically think of time travel, they
think of the TARDIS or the DeLorean, or maybe
even the first one to be called a time machine,
the one used by the Time Traveller in HG Wells
The Time Machine. Not very many think of the
human consciousness in those terms. Consider
this: when you read a book that dips into the
past, do you tend to visualise the setting as it
would have looked back then? Or when youre
reading a novella that delves into the future, do
you imagine what it might look like based on
past speculations? When you do that, you are
traveling through time in your mind. There are
people, though, who can legitimately see the
futuremost often the near future. We call them
psychos (I mean psychics). Not all of them are
phonies, though; its mostly the ones who try to
make a profit from their supposed gift. I have
experienced precognition, or the foreknowledge
of an event, in my dreams on occasion.

THE
What do I want you to take away from all this? I want you to do your own research
TAKEAWAY?
into the possibilities of causality violation, or time travel, and create your own
opinions on this fascinating subject. I will say this: there is an enormous amount of
technical jargon in the majority of the articles you will find, and if you dont know a
majority of the terms they use, simply do a Google search for quantum physics in
laymans terms, the possibilities of time travel in laymans terms, or something to
that effect.