/channels/news_feeds/all/term/time%20travel/rss en /channels/news/back-future-scientifically-possible-256276 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>It’s 'Back to the Future' day: “In <em>Back to the Future Part II</em>, Marty McFly travels to October 21, 2015, to save his children, yet to be born in <em>Back to the Future</em>'s 1985.” (Source: <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/20/entertainment/back-to-the-future-day-feat/">CNN</a>)</p> <p>Journalists looking for comments can talk to Alex Maloney, professor of physics at McGill:</p> <blockquote> <p>“Back to the Future was a great movie which brings up many interesting scientific issues.  Although Einstein's theory of general relativity seems to allow time travel under very special circumstances, it appears that the effects of quantum mechanics make time travel impossible.”<br /> - Alex Maloney</p> </blockquote> <p><strong><a href="http://www.physics.mcgill.ca/~maloney/">Alex Maloney</a></strong>, Associate Professor of Physics &amp; William Dawson Scholar, Department of Physics, �㽶��Ƶ<br /><strong>Expertise</strong>: Black holes, string theory, particle physics, cosmology and the emergence of space-time in quantum gravity.<br /><strong>Contact</strong>: <span><span>Maloney</span> [at] <span>physics [dot] mcgill [dot] ca</span></span></p> <p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">21 </span><span class="month">October </span><span class="year">2015</span></div></div></div></div></div> Wed, 21 Oct 2015 19:51:05 +0000 webfull 113454 at /channels