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I guess, ours! We are almost 4 months old as a married couple; after being friends for around 7 years, dated for around 5, long distance for about 4.A prelude to our story - Varsha Kulkarni's answer to What is your idea of a perfect marriage?2009 - In the same class, but no knowledge of each other’s existence.2010 - We talk for the first time, where he is standing for elections to the Student Union and is elected as Class Representative. He gets my number as a form of communication for official matters. Friendly chats and smiles on the corridors.2011 - Constant chats, we get closer on texts, and the usual teenage stuff.2012 - After a weird, ‘does this mean we are dating’, we begin dating, the normal teenage sort of hanging out, stealing a few kisses and hugs, long bike rides, hiding from parents, etc. The typical Honey Moon period.2013 - I move to Singapore for Masters, he moves to Bangalore and starts working. No future planned or discussed. But one fact we both know, is we miss each other a lot. We text, share details of our new lives, constantly on phone and video chats. Even a short time gap of 2.5 is such a catalyst for arguments.2014 - Early in the year, I fly back to Bangalore, and that is when he asks me to marry him. The rest of the year is a little hard though, miscommunication, not able to give each other time, etc. He flies to Singapore later in the year. Stabilizes for a little while.2015 - I get a job, lives get busier, some sort of gap develops. We still hold on. We take a trip to Krabi later in the year, and spoke a lot, a loooot. Luckily, we were on the same page. We start planning the future, how and when to tell parents, etc.My parents confront me about my marriage, and whether it’s my boyfriend or they need to start looking. Shell-shocked, I admit to be dating my boyfriend. Dad cool-ly tell me they are totally okay with it, astonishingly.2016 - My boyfriend tells his parents, and luckily, they too don’t have a problem. Both the parents meet, and talk about the how’s and when’s. This phase is literally is the best. Our relationship just renewed, like we have no inhibitions or worries anymore, nothing to hold back. We are in love like never before.2017 - Earlier in the year he visits me in Singapore, we have the best time of our lives. He meets all “my people” in official terms, I get introduced to his “people’.He receives his admit from NTU, he starts in August on May 18. Parents talk and decide on getting us married. 47 days later, we are married in a beautiful, small ceremony.We are now living in our small, little bubble, quite happily.I hope this inspires another couple going through a long, distance relationships. Hang in there, it will be worth it, I know it is not easy!

Okay so its start from here:“Every love story is beautiful but ours is my favorite”Our story is a simple tale of two souls who met in college and fell in love.We are almost 2 years old as a married couple; after being friends for around 6 years, dated for around 5, long distance for about 2.I was a girl from a middle-class family who passed her higher secondary education with flying colors. I joined an engineering college to pursue my higher education where I met the love of my life and had fallen in love with him at the first sight.2008 - In the same college, but no idea of each other's existence2009 - Almost same, in the same class, but no knowledge of each other’s existence. Although I saw him and noticed in boy's mess (college) and had love at first sight kind of feeling, at the same time changed my mind and said to myself that I am not his cup of teaOct 2010 - Started noticing him when he used to answer the questions in our lectures. Still not noticed each other properly.Oct-2011 - Dec2011 - We talk for the first time for viva and practical things, as he asked me to do some files for him. Then started constant chats, we get closer on texts, and the usual teenage stuff.We both stayed as friends for a long time. We thought of different ways to confess our feelings to each other and as the days passed we became very close. One day we were unable to control our emotions any further, mustered up the courage and he proposed to me. I accepted the proposal and both of us spent the days after that happily talking for hours about our future and agreed to tie the knot after successfully settling in their careers.Jan 2012- June 2012 - After a weird, ‘does this mean we are dating’, we begin dating, (went "Akshardhaam" for the first time together) the normal teenage sort of hanging out, stealing a few hugs, long bike rides, hiding from parents and friends, etc. The typical relationship period :DJuly 2012- He moved to Bangalore for Masters, I moved to Delhi and later Raebareli and starts working. Used to discuss future plans. But one fact we both know, is we miss each other a lot. We text, share details of our new lives, constantly on phone and video chats. Even a short time gap of 2 is such a catalyst for arguments. The past two years were little hard though, miscommunication, not able to give each other time, etc.2014 - Early in the year, I fly back to Bangalore, and that is when we decided that will get married once we both will get the job. Later we got placed and starts working. Life stabilizes for a little while.later in the year, and spoke a lot, a loooot. Luckily, we were on the same page. We start planning the future, how and when to tell parents, etc.We got employed and became financially independent. Our castes stood as greats support in getting the approval of our parents for the marriage. Our parents agreed to our marriage easily. We got married happily and celebrated each and every moment of our life after marriage.2015 - My parents confronted me about my marriage, and were looking for options. Shell-shocked, later through my relative my mama and mami ji, he got to know that I am dating and liking someone. Papa cool-ly told me they are totally okay with it, astonishingly.Later this year, my boyfriend told his parents, and luckily, they too don’t have a problem. Both the parents meet and talk about the how’s and when’s. This phase was literally the best. Our relationship just renewed, like we have no inhibitions or worries anymore, nothing to hold back. We were in love like never before.Parents talk and decide on getting us married. Just 3 months later, we are married in a beautiful, small ceremony.2016 - We got married and started our dream journey to stay together eat together, cherish every moment with each other.He receives his new job offer from Infosys he started in August.2017- In past two years we faced some up's and down's but still we are together and love each other like a newly married couple. We are now living in our small, little bubble, quite happily and celebrating each and every moment of our life after marriage.Here are some glimpses of our happy life:Life is a journey; We all are born and we will die someday. Some celebrate their silver jubilees. Some celebrate golden ones and some may score a century but life cannot be evaluated on the basis of the number of years spent alive. The quality of live is what matters not the quantity.I hope this inspires another couple going through a long, distance relationships. Hang in there, it will be worth it, I know it is not easy!Writing from my desk, Hiding from my boss.~Sandhya

They don't.Time travel is scientifically possible. No rule of science prohibits time travel, and in fact, we have specific theories that tell us how. Often the “Law of Conservation of Energy” is invoked as a counterargument, but this is misunderstanding the very law. More on that later at the end of my post. Other popular notions claim to shoot down the possibility as well. All of which, I will address too.The short answer is: Yes, it is possible, we know exactly how to do it, we have done it, and it happens all the time around you.CAN TIME DILATION MOVE US FASTER TO THE FUTURE?Yes, it can. Einstein’s theories of relativity taught us that time is a function of speed and gravity, meaning we can manipulate relative time so that it ticks differently from different frames of reference. Imagine we put you in a machine; you wait there for a week, and when you get out, the rest of the Earth is 100 years into the future. This is possible. Undoubtedly.“Special Theory of Relativity” (1905) taught us that time is a function of speed. Anyone speeding relatively to someone not speeding will experience time dilation (aka a different flow of time). And this goes for any speed - be it a stroll in the park or in a spaceship whooshing away. Naturally, the difference is more noticeable the closer to the speed of light one travels, but the effect appears at any speed.Would you travel at the speed of light, your time would have slowed so much down that it would have stopped entirely. Of course, Einstein also tells us that we can never achieve this speed, but could we, and we could factually travel to any part in the universe - instantly, from our perspective.Think about that for a moment.A photon of light travels at the speed of light, which means time does not exist in its frame of reference. It also means that when it leaves a star perhaps a billion of our light-years away, it will instantly hit your telescope - from its perspective. To it, no time has passed at all. A billion years in a moment. How is that for time travel?On top of this, we also have the “General Theory of Relativity” (1915). It taught us that time, too, is a function of how close something is to a source of gravity. Only by being on Earth, our time ticks a bit slower than if, for example, we were floating in space far away. It also says that since your feet are closer to Earth than your head is, your feet are a tiny bit younger than the rest of you. Crazy, I know. But it is true. You can read more about it here.Anyway, all objects experience time quicker or slower, depending on how fast they relatively move or how close to a source of gravity they are. The speed you experience on earth (like when you are taking the bus, or flying in an airplane, or running down the stairs) affect your time a tiny bit. The effect is so tiny it really does not matter for any of us - even that the difference is real.But look at our GPS satellites: They tick faster than our clocks on Earth. They tick precisely 38 microseconds faster. To use them, we need to compensate for this difference in experienced time. The 38-microsecond difference is perfectly corresponding with the predictions of both the “Special” and “General Theory of Relativity”.Those satellites are constantly traveling a little bit further into the future, than we are — a proven fact.HOW DO WE TRAVEL BACK IN TIME?While time dilation permits traveling faster into our future, it does not permit traveling back in an already experienced time. It is a one-way ticket.As we learned above, the effect of time dilation increases the closer we travel to the speed of light. The faster we move, the slower our own time will tick. Geometrically, you cannot move faster than the cosmic speed limit of light. It is physically impossible. You can read more about why here. But were we to keep “all else equal” in the equations, and only increase speeds above what is possible (to faster than the speed of light); then ”time” will consequently become negative.What “negative time” means is impossible to say. Some interpret it as ”back in time,” others as merely nonsensical. However, in my view, it is unfair to the equations, as reality is not meant for an “all else equal” manipulation, and so whatever the results, such fiddling cannot be above mere academic insights into the dynamics of these equations.Add more degrees to a circle, if you wish. The end conclusion will be that you can’t. A circle has 360 degrees, no matter how creative you are. The maximum achievable speed is 300 000 km/s. Adding more in the equations does not change the fact.But, look past time dilation for a moment, and “The General Theory of Relativity” has another way to travel back in time. Or at least back to the moment in time, where we invent this “way.” This method is messier and much more complex than the time dilations mentioned above and would require its own set of articles to properly explain. First time explained by the famous Kip Thorne in 1988. The abridged version is something like this: Let us say we create two connected traversable wormholes in 2025. Then we speed up one of the wormholes or keep it near a strong source of gravity. Because of time dilation, the time surrounding this wormhole will slow down or even freeze, while the other wormhole continues normally through time - yet, they are still connected, they are still traversable. This means we create a gateway to 2025. The gateway is from whenever this other hole may be, but it always leads back to the year 2025. For this method, we first need to create traversable wormholes. We know how to, just not technically how.Once this device is created, it will allow us to travel back to the point it was first turned on, but not further back. It does not help us now, but it gives comfort knowing it might someday.So in conclusion, we know how to travel in time-future either faster or slower than our normal time. And it is very easy. Your car is such a machine. Unfortunately, the gain is yet very tiny. Eating your vegetables is still the better option to gain a few more ticks on the clock.HOW DO WE AVOID REALITY SCATTERING PARADOXES?A time paradox will happen when you travel back in time and change something that would prevent you from ever traveling back. And if you never travel back, you could not prevent this something from preventing you, and thusly you can travel back changing it again. We have a paradox.The famous “grandfather paradox” asks the question; what if you went back and prevented your grandfather from meeting (how dare you) your grandmother?In this case, you would never be born and never be able to travel back and block your grandfather. Meaning you would again be born etc. And so we are back to the beginning.The answer is either that the universe will collapse, that the timeline simply won't allow for such a change, or that you will be erased from both past and future history. A bit like how Marty McFly started to dematerialize in “Back to The Future” (1985).In truth, we do not know if it is possible to change the present by going to the past, and we do not know what will happen if we try. Nonetheless, “Quantum Mechanics” offer an interpretation that will prevent any time paradoxes ever to happen.The so-called “many world interpretation” of “Quantum Mechanics” says that other branches of the wave-function split parallel universes constantly and near infinitely. For every subatomic interaction, in our reality, a parallel world split from our world, in which the opposite action is made.You go left today, and a parallel world splits off, in which you go right. This is a crazy idea, but it is not a crazy rationale. This interpretation can explain many of the challenges with our understandings of the quantum realm. And it is one of the most accepted models in current quantum mechanical science.The tree illustrates your life, your timeline. For every action, there is another world created where you perform the opposite action, etc. When you travel in time, you are setting off new branches in your tree of life.If the interpretation is correct - and much suggests that it may very well be - going back in time and, for example, killing your grandfather, will then create a parallel world where he is dead, and you are never born. This will, however, not affect your history (your world), where your grandfather continues to live. You are safe from oblivion, even in the worst thinkable time travel scenario.Any conceivable time travel paradox is solved this way. Any consequences created by meddling with the timeline will be in parallel worlds, not yours.There are paradoxes no more.HOW CAN A TIME TRAVEL MACHINE AVOID ENDING SOMEWHERE IN SPACE, BECAUSE EARTH CONSTANTLY MOVES THROUGH SPACE?This is a rather widespread question. Since the Earth moves through space, using a time machine to jump to another time, it means the Earth was in a completely different region of space at this moment.Wouldn’t a time machine just strand someone somewhere out there in space?I know this as a “clever” observation. At first, there seems to be a bit of an aha thing about it. But in truth, it is an absurd wonder as it forgets how basic navigation works.Any travel in our reality - if in time or just in space - requires coordinates to work: Trains, cars, GPS, a walk to the local diner, and time machines need this to function.Our reality consists of 4 dimensions, and so in turn also 4 coordinates to define any point in our vast universe. Be it at the diner, on top of the Eiffel Tower, or somewhere on Mars. 3 coordinates are spatial, and 1 is time, and we need all 4 when navigating.Imagine inviting on a date, but only tell where (the 3 spatial coordinates) but not when (the time coordinate) - you will never meet.Imagine inviting on a date and only tell when, but not where - you will never meet.Imagine sending a probe to Mars, without the inclusion of time in its navigational path - it would never land… at least not on Mars.All travel in our world relies on 4 coordinates. So with these 4 coordinates, any time machine will know where and when exactly to put you.Since space has no fixed points to navigate by, it would likely work by estimating any relative position to the Sun, faraway star constellations, and similar - we used such tricks in our maritime history, and it works. In any case, do not buy a time machine from IKEA, and you should be perfectly fine.THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICSThere are no laws or theories in science that prohibit time travel. And I hope this post has shed some light on several theories that actually support the mechanics of time travel. The Law of Thermodynamics does, however, provide a concern:The First Law of Thermodynamics (aka the Law of Conservation of Energy): Energy and matter cannot be created or destroyed in a closed system.The Second Law of Thermodynamics: All isolated systems tend toward an equilibrium state where entropy is at a total maximum, and where no energy will be available to be used in any form.The third law of thermodynamics: The entropy of a system approaches a constant value when its temperature approaches absolute zero.By traveling to another time - you are adding matter to this time - you are violating the first law?By traveling to another time - you reverse the flow of entropy by your presence - you are violating the second law?By traveling to another time - you add temperature by your presence - you are violating the third law?Although the above mentioned thermodynamic consequences are correct, none of them violate the laws.All the laws of thermodynamics are based upon “closed-” or “isolated systems”. This is a fact often ignored by those who quote them. If you combine systems, you can add matter, lessen entropy, or increase temperatures and violate no laws.A future timeline must be considered another system. Thusly; “The Laws of Thermodynamics” do not apply here.Your time travel will combine two systems, making any meddling possible - at least from a thermodynamic point of view. Once connected, these two systems become one system, reestating the laws henceforth. However, from then on, your meddling will change nothing as it is one system now, and so violates no laws.If we were to consider a future timeline and a past timeline as one system instead of two systems - time-travel still does not violate the first law of thermodynamics. In such a case, you leaving your present and landing in your past, will have affected the total matter and energy in the system by exactly nothing: “the year 2019 minus you” vs. “the year 1975 plus you”, equals still one you. No change. No violation.However, unlike the first law of thermodynamics, the second and third law includes vague references of time in their statute. Entropy will decrease, and temperature will increase in the past when you arrive. So were we to consider the past and present as one system, it seems to invite violations? It doesn’t. Both the second and third laws used phrases like this; “... tend towards/approaches… total/absolute…” and this trend in the direction of time is not obstructed or contradicted “totally” or “absolutely” by your arrival. The laws remain in effect because the direction of the dynamics does not fundamentally change.Regardless of this healthy exercise in the laws, past and present are not the same system, and cannot be considered as one.In conclusion, “The Laws of Thermodynamics” are a cornerstone in our science. The laws are guiding the mechanics within a system. They do not, however, obstruct the idea of traveling across systems.EPILOGUEThe above post is not indirectly representing my view on time travel. I have no idea if it ever will be possible in any remarkable sense. Likely, I think it won't. But, my article aims to show how our science supports the possibility, as I believe this fact is generally and unfairly ridiculed a bit.Attribution: I am often asked if Time Dilation has been confirmed? As expressed, in the article: yes it has, beyond any reasonable doubt. For reference, see, for example, these experiments: Pound–Rebka experiment (1959), Hafele–Keating experiment (1971), Gravity Probe A experiment (1976), Iijima et al. experiments (1975 - 1977), Chou et al. experiments (2010), Via our Particle Accelerators; fx (2014), van Baak et al. experiments (2005 - 2016) & Wayward Satellite Experiments (2019), etc.Thank you for the question, Alexander!