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According to Kip Thorne and others, time travel is allowed under the Theory of Relativity. Even though some claim that naturally occuring wormholes would be tiny (ie. subatomic particles or bosons, if those, would be the only things allowed to pass through) they would still allow for the passage of tiny masses and energy. But, if a mass were to travel through space and / or time (say, 1 Kg of matter), wouldn't that same 1Kg of matter either A -- Blink out of existence for a period of time (ie constitute a loss of 1 Kg of matter over the entire universe) and / or B -- Reappear in the past, where there was already that 1Kg of matter (ie constitue a gain of 1Kg of matter over the entire universe)? Doesn't that violate conservation of mass / energy? Or does it mean that the singularity of the big bang was a point in 4 dimensions, and actually contained all of the matter and energy in the universe for every single measure of Planck's Time for its entire existence (a number so large as to be deamed infinity)? Either way, doesn't this prove some flaw in relativity or possibly in our understanding of the Big Bang?
Re: Doesn't Time Travel defy Conservation of Mass / Energy?
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