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Can we time travel with gravitational waves?


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There are many articles all over the web announcing the discovery of gravitational waves, which occur when two black holes collide. Here are a few links:

 

http://news.yahoo.com/weve-finally-found-gravitational-waves-221739243.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/science/ligo-gravitational-waves-black-holes-einstein.html?_r=0

 

Will gravitational waves allow us to time travel? How? Discuss.

 

 

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My (uneducated) guess is that it'd be possible to time travel to some extent, but either it wouldn't be noticeable relative to our experience or we'd get ripped apart doing it.

 

I'm likely way off, but that's my layman's gut-reaction.

 

 

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No.

 

Those were there before we even knew they were there.

 

They are only produced by gravity and space. If we tried to make G.Waves, we would simply make a blackhole. But nature has never showed us something travelling time backwards for being near a massive object.

 

 

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