Big Bang Recreated in a Metamaterial, Offers Evidence That Time Travel is Impossible
Metamaterials can be used to create desktop black holes and simulate multiverses; now a physicist is using them to prove time travel can't happen. In a new paper, University of Maryland professor and metamaterial theorist Igor Smolyaninov says mapping light distribution in a metamaterial can serve as a model for the flow of time. The model shows that the forward direction of time is unrelenting; you cannot curve back on time and go back to where you started. You just have to build a desktop Big Bang to prove it. Related ArticlesEngineered Metamaterials Could Recreate the Birth of Extra-Dimensional Universes in the LabMetamaterial 'Space-Time Cloak' Conceals Not Just Objects, But Entire Events Custom-Made Metamaterials Could Show Scientists a Tabletop Big Bang TagsScience, Rebecca Boyle, big bang, black holes, cosmology, light waves, metamaterials, multiverses, spacetime, time travelMetamaterials can help with this, because they are engineered to exhibit properties that don't exist naturally....