The White House Held a Webinar on Time Travel

While the current US Congress might be the most anti-science one to date, that's not stopping the rest of the White House from paying respects to scientists and astronomers the past few days.

Tom Kalil, a director for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, grabbed people to explain time travel for "Back to the Future Day" on Wednesday. (October 21, 2015 is the date that Marty McFly travels to in the future in Back to the Future 2.)

To answer that question, they pulled in Tim Ralph, a professor of physics and Martin Ringbauer, a physics PhD, both from the University of Queensland, to break down the theoretical physics that says time travel is possible.

Together, the two touch on time travel, elements of quantum computing and mechanics, and recent time travel experiments involving accelerated particles.

Watch on if you want to see a public servant dabble with the ideas of quantum physics. That's certainly one thing I didn't expect to see from a White House worker today.