The discussion surrounding time travel never seems to go away, no matter how ridiculous some of the conspiracy theories surrounding it may be.
While the likes of Back to the Future has always given us a taste of what time travel could be like, it seems scientists they discovered real evidence of time travel for the first time.
While the latest evidence may be at a microscopic level, new research conducted by Till Bohmer and Thomas Blochowicz has provided much optimism for the future of time travel.
A new study published in Physics of nature called ‘Time reversibility during the aging of materials’, was conducted by the two researchers at the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany.
The research focused on time effectively “mixing” in the structure of some materials such as glass, however, the study provided some rather surprising conclusions.
It was discovered that time does not exactly behave in a linear way – with glass being used since it presents one of the most fascinating structures of any items that humans use every day.
The article does not follow traditional molecular structures, instead constantly falling into new places – thereby making the glass molecules more unique.
Glass structures were looked at with laser light scattered by the researchers working on the study, which led them to observe the glass samples pushing and reforming in new arrangements.
Professor Blochowicz said: “Small fluctuations in the molecules have to be documented with an ultra-sensitive video camera.
“You can’t just look at the molecules moving around.”
Scientists are unable to determine whether the changes occurred forward or backward, although it provides hope that time travel may occur sometime in the future.
The team working on the study, which was published in full in the magazine ‘Optics“, provided the expected solution on each side of the interface.
But there was a crucial requirement to achieve this… it needs time to move forward alone.
While the equation may only be one-dimensional, it has resolved a long-standing controversy that has stumped scientists for many years.
“We found that we can assign a ‘proper time’ to the wave, which is entirely analogous to the proper time in the general theory of relativity,” explains Professor Marco Ornigotti, the head of the study.
While the results could have been a great advance, many thought that almost goodbye to the possibility of time travel in the past.
