Quantum mechanics and time travel

An article came out on Friday titled New model 'permits time travel' [via Alison]. According to it, some physics professors have started to clear up some of the logical paradoxes that exist concerning time travel, the most prevalent being the one about going back in time and splitting up your parents - what would happen to the present you? According to Professor Greenberger of the City University of New York, you wouldn't be able to.

"You go back to kill your father, but you'd arrive after he'd left the room, you wouldn't find him, or you'd change your mind," said Professor Greenberger.

"You wouldn't be able to kill him because the very fact that he is alive today is going to conspire against you so that you'll never end up taking that path that leads you to killing him."

Oh. My. God. That sounds so much like "psychic theory".* It all goes back to knowing and believing. Knowing that your father is alive will ensure that you can't kill him. This supports my belief** that things in your head - something that you know or believe - directly influence what you can and cannot do, physically.

Ever since watching What the Bleep Do We Know, quantum physics and quantum mechanics have given me a lot of hope. This article takes it to a new level. Soon we may find that physics theory and psychic theory are one and the same! I feel like there is a whole new universe just around the corner. Let's go.

*Just wait. In a few years I won't have to put that in quotes anymore.
**Just wait. Soon I won't have to say "my belief" anymore; it will be established as a fact.