If you’re like me and interested in philosophy of time, you may have thought this article which is titled “You Can’t Travel Back in Time, Scientists Say” might involve some recent research that shows that time travel (contrary to what we think now) is incompatible with the current laws of physics.
It doesn’t.
It basically says that the laws of physics do not rule out time travel, and that even if it is theoretically possible people shouldn’t expect that we are going to have the technical ability anytime soon. But this is simply something that a lot of people already acknowledge. Talk about a misleading title.
It’s a good lesson in modal ambiguity.
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