SMRTR Science & EngineeringMay 13, 2026Hacker Noon

The Pseudoscience of Time Travel: Andrew Knight’s Case Against Traveling to the Past

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Despite Stephen Hawking and Nobel Prize winner Kip Thorne suggesting time travel could be physically possible, Andrew Knight argues that past-directed time travel is built on a false, unstated assumption — that no change to the past means no change to the present — making it not just wrong, but pseudoscience.

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