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‘Back to the future’ messages are more efficient

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‘Back to the future’ messages are more efficient
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Science fiction has long embraced the idea of travelling backward in time, but the advent of Einstein’s general theory of relativity transformed these ideas from fantasies into potential – albeit contested – realities. In particular, solutions to the equations of general relativity known as closed time-like curves (CTCs) seem to allow a system’s trajectory to return to a previous point in time. Although the existence of CTCs has never been proven, their admissibility within general relativity ha

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