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• ‟ If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time.

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• ‟ It was quite a surprise when I realized that with a single wormhole you could have time hook up towards the future or towards the past and that you can actually manipulate the wormhole and change how time hooked up.

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• ‟ Whether you can go back in time is held in the grip of the law of quantum gravity.

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• ‟ We have to have a combination of general relativity that describes the warping of space and time, and quantum physics, which describes the uncertainties in that warping and how they change.

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• ‟ 'Closed timelike curve' is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past.

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• ‟ A big misconception is that a black hole is made of matter that has just been compacted to a very small size. That's not true. A black hole is made from warped space and time.

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• ‟ I became interested in this question of whether you can build wormholes for interstellar travel. I realized that if you had a wormhole, the theory of general relativity by itself would permit you to go backward in time.

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• ‟ When you fall into a black hole, everything that falls in after you over millions of years, as seen by you inside the black hole, comes pounding down on you in a fraction of a second, because of the enormous differences of time flow.

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• ‟ I think that the future of the human race is to spread through the universe, and now is the time that we should be laying the foundations for that.

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