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No time travel for you. Hong Kong Scientists confirm that time travel is impossible

Sorin Adam Matei
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
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Spotted by my wife, thus notable.

A team of scientists says it’s officially time to leave the idea of time travel in the past.

In a study released by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, a team of physicists claims to have proved that a single photon “obeys the traffic law of the universe,” and that as Albert Einstein theorized, nothing in the universe can travel faster than the speed of light, Discovery News reported.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/tech_guide/2011/07/26/2011-07-26_scientists_prove_time_travel_is_physically_impossible_in_groundbreaking_study_me.html#ixzz1TGTHeK00

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Sorin Adam Matei

Assistant Vice President for Partnerships in Strategic Defense Innnovation and Professor of Communication at Purdue University, Director of the FORCES initiative leads research teams that study the relationship between technological and social systems using big data, simulation, and mapping approaches. He published papers and articles in Journal of Communication, Communication Research, Information Society, National Interest, and Foreign Policy. He is the author or co-editor of several books. The most recent is Structural differentation in social media. He also co-edited Ethical Reasoning in Big Data,Transparency in social media and Roles, Trust, and Reputation in Social Media Knowledge Markets: Theory and Methods (Computational Social Sciences) , all three the product of the NSF funded KredibleNet project. Dr. Matei's teaching portfolio includes technology and strategy, online interaction, and digital media analytics classes. A former BBC World Service journalist, his contributions have been published in Esquire and several leading Romanian newspapers. In Romania, he is known for his books Boierii Mintii (The Mind Boyars), Idolii forului (Idols of the forum), and Idei de schimb (Spare ideas).

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