{"id":384787,"date":"2018-11-12T23:31:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T22:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/expert-explains-stephen-hawkings-final-prediction\/"},"modified":"2018-11-12T23:31:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T22:31:53","slug":"expert-explains-stephen-hawkings-final-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/expert-explains-stephen-hawkings-final-prediction\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert explains Stephen Hawking\u2019s final prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-6373283\/How-time-travel-work-Expert-explains-Stephen-Hawkings-final-prediction.html\"><strong>Daily Mail<\/strong><\/a><br \/>November 12, 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018If one made a research grant application to work on time travel it would be dismissed immediately,\u2019 writes the physicist Stephen Hawking in his posthumous book Brief Answers to the Big Questions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He was right. But he was also right that asking whether time travel is possible is a \u2018very serious question\u2019 that can still be approached scientifically.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Arguing that our current understanding cannot rule it out, Hawking, it seems, was cautiously optimistic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">So where does this leave us? We cannot build a time machine today, but could we in the future?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Let\u2019s start with our everyday experience. We take for granted the ability to call our friends and family wherever they are in the world to find out what they are up to right now. But this is something we can never actually know.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The signals carrying their voices and images travel incomprehensibly fast, but it still takes a finite time for those signals to reach us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Our inability to access the \u2018now\u2019 of someone far away is at the heart of Albert Einstein\u2019s theories of space and time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-6373283\/How-time-travel-work-Expert-explains-Stephen-Hawkings-final-prediction.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Monday, November 12, 2018  at  10:30 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/how-time-travel-could-work-expert-explains-stephen-hawkings-final-prediction.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/how-time-travel-could-work-expert-explains-stephen-hawkings-final-prediction.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily MailNovember 12, 2018 \u2018If one made a research grant application to work on time travel it would be dismissed immediately,\u2019 writes the physicist Stephen Hawking in his posthumous book Brief Answers to the Big Questions. 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