“Star Trek”, “Back to the Future” and more: In science fiction, people have long imagined what it is like when we can travel into the past or the future.

As early as 1895, HG Wells wrote a classic with “The Time Machine”.

In fact, to this day, scientists are also concerned with whether this is theoretically conceivable.

You go to the limits of the imaginable and of course still absolutely impossible today.

Alexander Armbruster

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      But does that even bring anything? Do such thought experiments really make sense? Yes, says the quantum physicist Marcus Huber, who conducts research in Vienna. He explains why experts like him concern themselves with the phenomenon of time, how physicists think, what they learn from it, what consequences it has for us - and what quantum computers can have to do with it. An episode about the limits of thinking and what has been imaginable so far. And an experiment.