Quantum experiment reveals time really CAN flow backwards

DAILYMAIL.COM ^ | 30 November 2017 | Mark Prigg

[sparklite2]

Time travel may be possible - for sub atomic particles, at least, a new experiment has found. Physicists have discovered that heat can spontaneously flow from a cold quantum particle to a hotter one under certain conditions - effectively reversing the 'arrow of time'.

While the discovery doesn't advance the possibility of building a time machine, it does show the quantum world operates under very different rules, researchers say.

[alexander_busek]

“How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased?” From Asimov’s “The Last Question.”

Bingo!

Regards,

[blueunicorn6]

Let me bet on it.

It’ll go down.

[Moonman62]

I think the larger lesson to be learned is how weird quantum physics is.

...

Yep. A lot of people think quantum theory is bizarre, but at its foundation it’s quantum experimental results that are bizarre. The theory tries to make sense of it.

[sparklite2]

I’d say by the Big Crunch. Do I win a prize?

[Bob434]

it’s like deja vu all over again

[mairdie]

I LOVED that movie.

[Bob434]

oh great- now you’ve really messed up the future

[mairdie]

Fun thread!

[Songcraft]

:-)

[Bob434]

and that reminds me- “Time flies like an arrow- Fruit Flies like a Banana”

[sparklite2]

Thank you, Groucho.

And, outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend.
Inside a dog, it’s too dark to read.

[sparklite2]

Now that you’re here, we can rock! LOL

[blueunicorn6]

I think that in physics, that’s known as “The Butterfinger Effect”.

If you eat a Butterfinger in the past, it will wipe out the dinosaurs with wind or something.

Now I’m hungry.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Regardless of the implications for the arrow of time, if you can get particles to move in both directions (away from heat and toward heat) then this might be a method to keep quantum circuits cool.

But all I know for sure is that enthalpy is entropy's gay cousin.

[Songcraft]

That's addressed brilliantly in Rootin' Tootin' Fig Newton's fourth law of equal and opposite time travel arrows (which he wrote, until he didn't write it in the other direction).

[techworker]

John Trump, MIT Professor and Scientist charged with examining the works of Nikola Tesla.

It's rumored that John Trump passed this technology onto his nephew, pictured here, Donald J. Trump, NYC businessman.  Did Trump's nephew consipire with his uncle to time travel?  Was his nephew John Titor??

HaHa..

[TBP]

Amit Goswami has written about this in a couple of his books. It’s qutie fascinating.

Now if we could just get it to a macro level. I’d like to go back and get Goldwater elected.

[sparklite2]

They told me if I voted for Goldwater,
we would go to war. But I did ... and we DID!

[blueunicorn6]

You can read inside a cat.

But all they ever have there to read is old yacht magazines.

[Rastus]

As I was working in my lab one day
A subatomic particle flowed from a state that’s cold to one that’s hot
But so what?
Does anybody really know what time travel is?
Does anybody really care?
If so, it doesn’t seem to fit
Obama still was president

Hmm. Not as much hit potential as the original, I fear.