RE: Does the Law of Conservation of Matter/Energy Disallow Time Travel?
March 20, 2016 at 4:41 am
(This post was last modified: March 20, 2016 at 4:44 am by Alex K.)
Good question! I agree with rob though, one would probably have to be more specific how the time travel one envisions is supposed to be accomplished, to say something further. If there is e.g. a wormhole connecting two times in the same universe, forgetting about causal paradoxes for a moment, I don't see why they couldn't possibly act as sources and sinks of energy - energy conservation is not to be taken for granted in general relativity - but I haven't done the calculation. It's quite possible that the energy would be borrowed/ reabsorbed from or into the wormhole itself such that it would look more massive once you've gone through to compensate that you're gone, or in the past, gets lighter when you come out.But I'm just guessing.
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