Quantum Entanglement and time travel

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The discussion centers on the possibility of backward time travel, with Brian Greene suggesting it may not be entirely ruled out despite skepticism from many physicists. Participants express concerns about paradoxes and the implications of quantum mechanics (QM) on time travel, noting that current formulations of QM are incomplete. The concept of nonlocal interactions in QM is debated, with some arguing that no information is transferred, complicating the idea of time travel. General relativity theoretically allows for closed timelike curves, but the feasibility of such travel remains contentious, with many asserting it leads to logical inconsistencies. Overall, the conversation highlights the ongoing debate about the nature of time and the potential for time travel within the frameworks of physics.
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I'm not too sure the question really was ever answered. To put it fairly simple, we don't really know. The idea of why it is believed to violate special relativity is that entanglement means that objects that are interacting will react at the same time when something happens to one of the objects no matter how far away the two objects are. But this would mean that some sort of signal would have to be interacting with both objects and would be moving faster than the speed of light. This is where the paradox comes from, if the reaction happens instantly than the signal is moving faster than the speed of light and violated special relativity, unless the signal moves backwards through time.
 
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